I have been working on a .NET assertion library called Axiom Assertions. It started as a way to learn how assertion libraries work, then grew into an experiment around deterministic output, batching, analyzers, and AI-focused test assertions. The repo is here: https://github.com/spearzy/Axiom-Assertions This did not start as a plan to overthrow every assertion library in .NET. That would be a bit
I shipped mcp-probe — a CLI that points at any MCP server, enumerates every tool, resource, and prompt, calls each with auto-generated arguments, validates against declared schemas, prints a pass/fail scorecard, and exits 0/1 for CI. The plan for launch week: run it against the official Node MCP servers and post results. The first run made me look like I'd broken half the ecosystem. The second, af
This technical post walks through the design and implementation of Secure Playground: a local web app that simulates prompt-injection attacks against large language models and demonstrates simple defenses. Provide a minimal, reproducible environment to test payloads and defensive strategies. Make it easy to add new providers and run mutation-based red-team experiments. Offer a leaderboard and scor
Metasploitable2 - FTP Exploitation using vsftpd 2.3.4 Backdoor 1. Objective To identify and exploit a known vulnerability in an FTP service running on a vulnerable target machine using industry-standard reconnaissance and exploitation techniques. 2. Lab Environment Component Description Attacker Machine Kali Linux Target Machine Metasploitable2 Network Type Host-only / NAT
This is Part 1 of a two-part series. Part 2 (coming soon): Connecting to spoke clusters from a controller using multicluster-runtime, driven by ClusterProfile. The Cluster Inventory API (multicluster.x-k8s.io) is driven by SIG-Multicluster and centered on the ClusterProfile resource. It only delivers value when something produces those ClusterProfiles. That something is a cluster manager. Today, t
At the beginning of this series, the problem seemed simple. There were a lot of rocks in the yard. Some were small. Some were large. A few were firmly in what I’ve been calling Engine Block Class. The original idea was straightforward: catalog them, maybe sell a few, and build a small system around the process. Along the way, the project grew. What We Built Across the previous posts, the Backyard
When developers travel, we usually prepare the obvious things. Laptop charger. But there is one dependency that is easy to underestimate until it breaks: mobile internet. A trip to China makes this especially obvious. Not because China is hard to travel in, but because so many basic interactions are mobile-first: navigation, translation, ride-hailing, hotel communication, ticket confirmations, pay
I Built Watchup — An African Alternative to Sentry for Monitoring Services Most developers don’t realize their app is down until users complain. By then, the damage is already done. That’s the problem I wanted to solve when I built Watchup. 👉 https://watchup.site If you're running any backend, API, or production service, you’ve probably faced this: Your API goes down — you don’t notice Errors