The Problem: We Were Flying Blind At Refer, we're on a mission to enable talented individuals to fulfill their professional potential by helping them pursue their ideal job. Behind the scenes, that means a lot of microservices, and recently we decided to consolidate everything into a mono-repository. If you've ever migrated dozens of microservices into a monorepo, you know the drill: contracts b
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
The pattern in AI coding tools has been bugging me for a while. You sign up for one of them. You agree to a per-seat subscription. You get exactly one model: the one the vendor picked for you. Underneath, the whole thing is glued to that vendor’s SDK, so even if you wanted to swap models, you couldn’t without forking. Then the next month, a better model ships from a different vendor, and you’re st
I built a React form library 2 years ago. It got almost zero usage. Recently, I revisited the idea and realized the problem wasn’t the code — it was the approach. Most form libraries are powerful, but they come with complexity: too much setup too much wiring too much abstraction So I rebuilt it from scratch with one goal: Make forms stupidly simple. Every time I build a form in React, I repeat the
Grom — Free, Open-Source AI Coding Assistant for VS Code (Ollama, LM Studio, Anthropic, and More) I've been building Grom, a free and open-source VS Code extension that brings agentic AI coding to your machine. No telemetry, no mandatory account, no subscription. If you use Ollama or LM Studio, nothing ever leaves your machine. Grom is a chat + agentic coding extension that lives in the VS Code
I built rewind — a CLI that reads your git repo and tells you in plain english where you left off. But the interesting part isn't what it does, it's how it actually works under the hood. cargo install git-rewind https://github.com/Chronos778/git-rewind
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
Hi everyone! I've been working on a personal project to create a desktop virtual assistant that doesn't rely on the cloud. I wanted something that felt like JARVIS but kept my data 100% private. Brain: It uses Ollama as the backend, so you can run models like Llama 3, Mistral, or Phi-3 locally. Interface: Built with PyQt6 featuring a "holographic" glassmorphism effect (transparent and sleek).