Once you taste The Elm Architecture, going back to mutable UI hierarchies feels like trading a freshly pulled espresso for three-day-old instant coffee. Meet Espresso: a zero-dependency Python implementation of TEA that delivers buttery-smooth, flicker-free terminal interfaces – and proves it can handle the brutal complexity of a full-featured terminal email client.
2026
03
Nov
Melting the Cold Chain: How Exposed Modbus is Spoiling Europe’s Supermarkets
Following the Ankara water leaks, the focus has shifted to the commercial sector. Over the last few weeks, hackers have been systematically thawing out supermarket freezers across France and the rest of Europe. Here is how they are weaponizing HVAC maintenance panels to destroy the cold chain.
31
Oct
When OSINT Becomes a Crime: The vncsnatch Legal Gray Area
The Turkish water infrastructure leak has entered its next predictable phase: debating whether the researcher broke the law. Let’s talk about the exact moment a passive port scan legally becomes unauthorized access, and why vncsnatch sits right on that fault line
28
Oct
When Your Side Project Makes the Evening News in Ankara
I built vncsnatch to demonstrate how many unprotected desktops are sitting on the open internet. Recently, a researcher used it to scan Turkish IP ranges, and accidentally discovered that their critical water infrastructure was one unauthenticated click away from disaster.
14
Sep
NginXplorer: Because Spinning Up a 2GB Grafana Stack Just to Watch Nginx Logs is Madness
It usually starts with an innocent thought on a Friday evening. You’re logged into a low-powered VPS or your homelab machine, and you notice your blog is feeling a bit sluggish. Or maybe you noticed a suspicious spike in inbound network bandwidth and you just want to know: Who is hammering my web server right now, […]
13
Jul
Your Repository Has Left the Building: Why You should never trust Grok Build
xAI’s Grok Build CLI was caught uploading complete Git repositories—including files the agent was forbidden to read and the repository’s commit history. Apparently, “do not open this file” and “please package it for cloud storage” are entirely different instructions.
11
Jun
Hermes Portable: Because Your AI Assistant Should Fit in Your Pocket
I like tools that move with me, and I dislike reinstalling the same dependency circus on every machine I touch. Hermes Portable is a wrapper for Hermes Agent that keeps the important parts — state, sessions, skills, memories, and platform data — on a portable drive, while the host machine handles the disposable runtime mess. It is portable computing with fewer rituals and slightly less Python-induced despair.
19
May
Claude AI Answers War Questions
Saw this interesting post on Instagram and thought it was worth sharing.
26
Apr
April 26: A 40-Year Anniversary of Meltdowns
April 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the Pripyat disaster. It also marks the detonation date of the most destructive virus of the 90s: the CIH space-filler
24
Apr
Linux Snippets #5: Recovering “Deleted” Files from the Void
Accidentally ran rm on a massive log file or a database while a process was still writing to it? Before you panic, learn how to use lsof to find the ‘ghost’ file in the /proc filesystem and snatch your data back.