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How Github was hacked
Reading Time: 5 minutesTo understand that first we need to trace the sequence of events before it’d happened. And, God, there were MANY: Coincidence? Outages stopped only after May 26. Looks like the hackers were trying different approaches since at least February or actively pulling the data from the servers. And while the Github CyberSecs…
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Was it finally fixed, Vercel?
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt seems not a day goes by without some cloud outage or critical vulnerability issue. Let’s try to analyze the recent CloudFlare outage (not again 😩) caused by the react server components. The issue is very critical. Basically any unauthorized client can execute an arbitrary code on the server.
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What hyperscalers are hiding from you? Tell about recent waves of internet services outages.
Reading Time: 3 minutesJust for the last month we saw 2 global internet outages with AWS (us-east-1 region) and CloudFlare (global network outage) causing availability issues for many popular services e.g. X, ChatGPT, Spotify and even MC terminals. While the world moving forward with the AI adoption it’s not a coincidence it’s a consequence. Postmortems…
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Dangling pointers/references, undefined behaviour, memory leaks, segmentation faults, bad access, SIGABRT, Release optimizations and other C/C++ BAUs
Reading Time: 2 minutesWelcome to the real world of C++ programming, my friend. Debugging is by far the one of the most advanced and undervalued skill in programming if it’s not the most. If you’re not familiar with all these terms in the title you’re innocent person and didn’t smell a cannon powder yet. Let…
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I’ve applied Neural Style Transfer to Return To Castle Wolfstein
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTLDR: It looks great but not playable. It’s aesthetically pleasing but screen is hard to read and you can miss some important details (e.g. bullet shoots or mission objectives) that hard to read due to the style is being applied. I’ve converted some torch models to the CoreML format and also…
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Liquid Design 26 is all about Bugs! 🐛🐛🐛
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt looks like everyone is doing vibe coding these days.Even big enterprises like Apple are no exception. The amount of code an average developer generates—thanks to LLMs and the internet in general—has gotten out of control. Many still prioritize deployment over testing. But with great power comes responsibility.The number of subtle and…
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Why Chinese LLM coding models are not Yet on my radar
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently, we’ve seen a wave of announcements from various Chinese vendors introducing new large language models (LLMs) focused on code generation and assistance. While this demonstrates rapid progress in the global AI landscape, I find myself not prioritizing these models in my current workflow. Here’s why. 1. Performance Gaps in Real-World Coding…
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QR Code Scan And Generate App
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDidn’t expect my pet project become so popular. I’ve built it with Flutter in 2 days. Maybe due to pandemic QR code related apps got spikes. Therefore I decided to add more features to it and republish. The last version includes ux and stability improvements, automatic url, email, sms launcher, options…
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5 professional certifications achieved
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNow with the end of the lunar year 🌝 my pandemic certification journey is over with achieving the AWS Machine Learning Specialty certification. I’ve reached my digital Nirvana and can tell that there is nothing there in the Cloud. It’s an only an infinite ocean of data going in out of…
