My takes on stuff. These posts are filled with opinions ranging from technical architecture and programming to career advice and general, personal musings.

This post documents the progressive learning journey I have recently forced myself through in crypto & golang. Though I have known the basic patterns and sytax for a while, I recently decided it was time for a deep dive!

A hands-on walkthrough of using ffuf to fuzz HTTP APIs, discover hidden endpoints, and exploit a legacy authentication backdoor.

Exploring how to maintain request correlation across async gRPC service calls using blended protobuf patterns, bidirectional streaming, and correlation IDs to build truly non-blocking microservice architectures.