Stories by birdculture

WebPKI and You

I stopped using NixOS and went back to Arch Linux

Do the Illegible

Understanding Container Images: Layers, Configs, Manifests, and More

Simple-Git NPM package has CVSS 9.8 RCE; 5M+ weekly downloads–check lockfiles

Production query plans without production data

What it costs to run 1M image search in production

Abusing .arpa, the TLD that isn't supposed to host anything

Returning to Rails in 2026

Media over QUIC: On a Boat

The Cost of 'Lightweight' Frameworks: From Tauri to Native Rust

Building a Strict RFC 8259 JSON Parser: Acceptance Issues and Their Impact On

Impressions from Mozilla 1.2B (2002)

The first AI agent worm is months away, if that

Quantum Simulates Properties of First Half-Möbius Molecule by IBM Researchers

MCP Vulnerabilities Every Developer Should Know

Usage Specification

Open Sores: An Essay on Programmers' Culture of Collaboration and Its

LLM-driven large code rewrites with relicensing are the latest AI concern

Binding port 0 to avoid port collisions

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