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Every "AI security analyst" I tried had the same flaw: a correct verdict and a confident-but-wrong one are indistinguishable on screen. In security that's not a UX nit — it's the whole problem. So I built USAP around a single rule, and this post is about that rule and three things that fell out of i
Small open-source PRs look easy from the outside because the diff is usually small. The diff is not the work. The work is getting to the point where a maintainer can review it without having to guess what you changed, why it is safe, or whether you accidentally dragged in unrelated cleanup. The chec
Local projects are useful, but they are too forgiving. If I own the repo, I can choose the architecture, the naming, the test strategy, and the tradeoffs. That is good for building. It is not always good for proving I can work inside someone else's system. Merged upstream PRs are different. You do n
With the World Cup in full swing, we got curious: how well configured are the official stadium websites for the 16 host venues across the US, Canada and Mexico? So we ran a FIFA World Cup 2026 stadium security scan on all of them. TL;DR: every single stadium site had a weak or missing Content-Securi
Current OSS proof, without the launch gloss: 25 merged upstream PRs real review across multiple repos mostly narrow code+test fixes no own-repo PRs counted in that number The useful part is not the count by itself. The useful part is the mix of constraints: different test setups, different maintaine
The tech industry is littered with the ghosts of failed migrations—multi-year rewrites that burned through millions in budget only to be scrapped, or catastrophic IT shifts like the British bank TSB's migration that resulted in the corruption of 1.3 billion customer records. For organizations still
July always feels like a natural pause point. The first half of the year is already behind us. Some features shipped. Some bugs were fixed. Some ideas worked well. A few things probably stayed in the backlog longer than expected. For me, this is not about making a huge roadmap or setting unrealistic
Google Home and Alexa+ pushed me to abandon cloud voice assistants
Alex Karp, the co-founder and chief executive of Palantir Technologies, has quietly assembled a real estate portfolio worth more than $200 million across a reported 20 properties worldwide. The common thread is seclusion: a former monastery in the Colorado mountains, a rural compound in New Hampshir
Samsung is widely expected to unveil the Galaxy Z Fold8, Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, Galaxy Z Flip8, Galaxy Watch9, and Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 at an Unpacked event taking place in London on July 22. Ahead of that, today we have leaked European prices for the entire lineup. Spoiler alert: they're higher than
I've been working on Osquil, a schema-aware workbench for osquery. The first version is close, and before I publish it I want feedback from people who actually use osquery. If you've used osquery for more than a week, you probably know the drill. You open osqueryi, type .tables, and stare at 200+ ta
Most online file converters have a dirty secret: your files get uploaded to a server you don't control, processed by someone else's machine, and sometimes stored for longer than you'd expect. For a quick GIF conversion or a PDF merge, that feels like overkill — and a genuine privacy risk if the file
How to Run Open Code on Termux for Free: The Definitive Guide AI agents are transforming how we write code, but running them on a mobile device has always been a challenge. In a recent guide by tech creator DevCoreX, a seamless and entirely free method to run the updated version of Open Code directl
5 SQL Interview Questions That Trip Up Beginners If you're prepping for a tech interview, SQL usually feels "easy" until you're actually in the room. Here are 5 questions that look simple on paper but catch people off guard — plus quick explanations so you don't get caught out. Most people say "WHER
Everyone says AI lets one person do a team's work. True — but I think most people draw the wrong conclusion from it. Ten years ago, "being able to build the thing" was itself a moat. People who could write software — and actually finish it — were scarce. Shipping alone made you win. AI has pushed th
Author: Trix Cyrus [🔹 Try My] Waymap Pentesting Tool [🔹 Follow] TrixSec GitHub [🔹 Join] TrixSec Telegram Waymap is an open-source web vulnerability scanner for authorized security testing. It automates SQLi, XSS, RCE, LFI, CORS, CRLF, Open Redirect, API, Recon, Misconfiguration, and WordPress sec
I have been using small upstream PRs as a forcing function for proof. Not big rewrites. Not "I built a platform" posts. Just narrow bugs in real repositories, with a test, a focused patch, and whatever cleanup the maintainer asks for. That has been more useful than I expected. The main reason is tha
Over the last 10 years, software development has changed dramatically. Products are built faster, teams use more cloud services, data has become central to business decisions, and AI has entered everyday development workflows. But the core principles of good engineering have not disappeared. Code st
For years, the workflow for Android developers looking to implement on-device Machine Learning (ML) followed a predictable, albeit exhausting, pattern. You would download a .tflite model, drop it into your assets folder, and prepare for a long weekend of writing boilerplate. You had to manually hand
When you write a normal backend, you mostly trust your own database. A row you wrote is a row you can read back, and the data is what you put there. Solana works differently, and the difference is the single most important thing to understand about writing safe programs. On Solana, your program is h
