A real-world case study in passive threat intelligence and open-source investigation. Disclaimer: This research was conducted exclusively for educational purposes and passive threat intelligence. No systems were breached, no credentials were used without authorization, and no sensitive identifying data is reported in this article. All information collected comes from publicly accessible sources: S
CoderLegion charges $10/month premium while running hidden ads, faking their founding date, inflating user counts by 70%, and sending bulk emails with mail merge errors. Full technical proof. Every claim verified against public record. TL;DR: CoderLegion charges $10/month for "premium" access to ~37 active writers on a free open-source script running on $5 shared hosting. They claim no ads (Goo
My Hugo blog was downloading 3.6 MB of JavaScript and 40 KB of external CSS on every page load. For a static blog with mostly text and a few diagrams, that was absurd. Here is how I fixed it. HTML: 86 KB JavaScript: 3.6 MB (Mermaid + KaTeX) CSS: 40 KB (KaTeX stylesheets) Problem: render-blocking scripts loaded on every page for math and diagrams Adding minifyOutput = true to hugo.toml shrunk HTML