ヽ(・∀・)ﾉ WEEK OF APR 13 – APR 19, 2026 ヽ(・∀・)ﾉ NARSSR gets 3D. blender MCP builds the icon. visionOS spatial intro ships — 38 physics nodes you can flick in your living room. (ง'̀-'́)ง
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SHIPPED CODE ヽ(・∀・)ﾉ
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visionOS Spatial Launch Intro
NARSSRSpatialIntroView.swift — 38 physics-enabled sphere nodes + 3 N-stroke capsules floating in mixed reality. Gaze+pinch or direct touch to grab; release applies 3D velocity as physics impulse. 1.6× amplified flick with random tumble. 5-second drift-back timer. Stagger-wave reassembly on 'Begin Reading'. PhysicsSimulationComponent gravity=0.02 for floaty-not-dead feel. ImmersiveSpace registered in NARSSRVisionApp, AppStorage first-launch trigger in VisionContentView.
NARSSR · visionOS intro
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visionOS Icon — Blender Cycles Layers
Rendered 3 solid image stack layers from the Blender NARSSR_icon_3d.blend scene. Back: dark bg + glowing N (128 samples, no alpha). Middle: constellation edges only (transparent). Front: 38 amber nodes (transparent). Previous layers were broken — Back was blank black, Middle was invisible white-on-white. Now parallax depth works properly on Vision Pro.
NARSSR · brand
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WKWebView Process Churn — Fixed
60+ WebContent processes/cycle → 14. Orphaned off-screen WKWebViews couldn't reach CARenderServer or keychain; sync fired on every scenePhase .active with no debounce. Fix: hidden UIWindow parents extraction WebViews, 2-instance pool serialized via MainActor, 60s sync debounce, sweepStaleExtractions gated to 4h. CARenderServer errors dozens→1, -25308 keychain errors → 0, 267/438 articles extracted in 90s window. Verified on iPhone 17 Pro sim.
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Per-Domain Extraction — 37 Rules
Mercury Parser port + Substack custom-domain detection + Squarespace heuristic + link-aggregator resolution (HN/Lobsters/Reddit/Slashdot/Lemmy). 25 new rules this cycle (NBC/NPR/Atlantic/Wired/CNET/MacRumors/Zeit/Le Monde/Yomiuri/Asahi/Pitchfork/Rolling Stone/Fortune/NatGeo/+more). Resolver on extractor path so HN/Lobsters fetch the linked article, not the comments page.
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TESTS & QUALITY ヽ(・∀・)ﾉ
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RealityKit API Audit via Sosumi
Verified all key RealityKit APIs against Apple docs before shipping: PhysicsBodyComponent(shapes:mass:material:mode:) ✓, PhysicsMotionComponent(linearVelocity:angularVelocity:) ✓, PhysicsSimulationComponent.gravity ✓, InputTargetComponent(allowedInputTypes:) ✓, AnimationTimingFunction.easeOut/.easeInOut ✓. Caught and fixed: buildScene() incorrectly marked async, [self] captures on struct View (bad Swift 6 pattern).
NARSSR · sosumi
DONE
swift build — Clean (0 errors)
Full swift build pass on NARSSR package after all changes. 67/67 modules compiled. visionOS-gated code (#if os(visionOS)) correctly excluded from macOS build. project.yml glob auto-includes NARSSRSpatialIntroView.swift — no manual pbxproj entry needed.
NARSSR · build
DONE
Per-Page iPhone Audit — 18 Screens
Fresh QA agent walked Library → Feed → Article List → Reader → Discover → Graph → Search → Settings (every sub-sheet) → Read Later → Newsletter → OPML. Produced P0/P1/P2 queue. Caught Nostr key mismatch, Newsletter no-op, dead Source Code link, Discover 'Coming soon' dead-end, Graph no tap-nav.
NARSSR · audit
DONE
Fastlane Scaffolded
Appfile + Fastfile with 5 lanes: regen (xcodegen), test, beta (TestFlight upload), metadata, pull_metadata. ASC API key shared with Kaokaomoji/Voxlight (W927SXKCMH). api_key.json + report.xml gitignored; .p8 lives at ~/.appstoreconnect/private_keys/ outside the repo. Secrets audit: clean.
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BLOCKERS/GATES ヽ(・∀・)ﾉ
Spatial Intro — visionOS Sim Only
Can't validate NARSSRSpatialIntroView on device yet — visionOS target needs Xcode build + provisioning. Physics feel (gravity=0.02, flick amplifier 1.6×) is tuned from prior RealityKit experience but needs real-device iteration. node.move() with relativeTo:nil needs confirmation that it writes back correctly through ComponentSet subscript.
NARSSR · visionOS
Nostr Relay UserDefaults Key — Three-Way Mismatch
P0 from fresh QA audit. SidebarView reads 'narssr.nostr.relayURLs'; NostrSettingsView writes 'nostrRelayURLs'; AppState reads 'narssr.sync.nostrRelayURLs'. Three different keys. User-configured relays never actually drive sync or status pill — always shows 'Not configured'. SidebarView.swift:316, NostrSettingsView.swift:168, AppState.swift:42.
NARSSR · audit
Newsletter Toggle Is a No-Op
NewsletterSettingsView.swift:136 — toggleNewsletter comment admits 'In a full implementation, this would persist and pause/resume polling.' Switch flips state, nothing else. Ships as fake functionality. Also: default receiving address hardcoded to 'user+newsletters@narssr.app' when newsletterUserID empty — every user gets literal 'user'.
NARSSR · audit
Source Code Link → github.com
Settings About row Link destination is https://github.com (bare domain). Effectively a dead link shipping to TestFlight users. SettingsView.swift:196. 5-minute fix once repo URL decided.
NARSSR · audit
DOCS & STRATEGY ヽ(・∀・)ﾉ
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brand/README.md Rewritten
Old README described a 'constellation-only' era that was reverted. New README: all 4 layer files documented, full color ramp with N stroke hex values restored, Blender render pipeline documented, visionOS solid stack render instructions, links to NARSSRSpatialIntroView.swift as the runtime counterpart.
NARSSR · docs
MARKETING ヽ(・∀・)ﾉ
WIP
Blog Post: 3D Icons + visionOS Physics
Draft in progress for bythewei.dev — covers building the NARSSR 3D icon in Blender MCP, rendering visionOS solid image stack layers, and the spatial intro experience with RealityKit physics. Good story: Blender MCP → Cycles render → Swift RealityKit physics, all in one session.
bythewei · blog
Building a 3D App Icon in Blender MCP, Then Making It Physics-Enabled in visionOS
blender MCP builds the NARSSR icon as full 3D geometry. cycles renders the visionOS solid image stack. then the same nodes ship as physics-enabled RealityKit entities you can flick around your living room.
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Debugging WKWebView Process Churn on iPhone — Three Agents, One Loop
NARSSR was spawning 60 WebContent processes per sync cycle on iPhone. One diagnostic agent, one implementation agent, one fresh QA agent in a /loop — dropped it to 14. Plus a per-screen audit surfaced three P0s I didn't know I had.
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One Evening, One RSS Reader: Magazine Redesign, Live Activities, and a Settings Panel That Actually Works
a magazine-style home, live activities, a widget target, an iCloud schema audit, and five dead settings toggles wired up — all in one session. parallel agents as force multiplier.
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Threads Analysis: 50K Posts, 69 Endpoints, Zero Cloud
one session -- cloned a repo, synced 50K posts, built two API servers, seeded pgvector, ran enrichment pipelines, and shipped a haiku oracle. all local.
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Threads Analysis API — Technical Reference
69 endpoints, pgvector embeddings, tech+pedagogy museums, haiku oracle — full API reference
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Cinder: Tinder for Unfinished Dev Projects
built a macOS swipe-to-decide app for all my dead projects. graveyard widget, git tree viewer, cinder mode, menu bar heat indicator. then accidentally built an iOS daily standup that speaks to me at sunrise.
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Cinder API Reference
REST API reference for the Cinder project heat tracker. Endpoints, auth, data shapes, iOS Shortcuts integration, and the Drafts widget pattern.
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plex-claude: Taming a 200-Book Audiobook Inbox with Agent Swarms
Built an automated pipeline to clean up my Plex audiobook inbox — combine, tag, cover art, genre sort — triggered by a single Claude skill.
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Building a Decentralized AI Fortress in One Session
30+ agents, 15,000 lines, 3 protocols. How agent swarms built HTTP + Nostr + Solid Pod federation with Signal-level security ambitions in a single day.
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Pixel Agents: Idle Game Visualization for Claude Relay
Built a pixel art idle visualization where AI agents work in an office, fight knight-shaped tasks, and pet cats. 6,863 lines, 163 sprites, 8 scenes.
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Sprite Economics, Agent Swarms, and Screen Savoring
Sending sprite PNGs to LLMs costs 120x more than a JSON manifest. Also: watching agents think on an iPad, and how a screensaver became a fireplace.
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Claude Relay Architecture
Inter-Claude knowledge relay — shared workspace for director/worker collaboration via MCP tools, SSE streaming, and approval-gated messaging
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Building a Blackboard: Research Pipeline From Scratch
built a 4th visual surface, an 11-source research pipeline, and an MCP server — because $47/mo for a scraping API felt wrong
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Claude Code Sessions: AI Hedge Fund
three sessions — from Finviz PIDs to a mechanical trading system to a Mac mini command center with 26M rows, self-hosted notifications, and iPhone remote control
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How I Use Claude Code
patterns I've developed for AI-assisted development — CTO delegation, blind validation, dev teams, multi-machine orchestration
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The Mac Mini Command Center
turning a Mac mini into a private command center — self-hosted ntfy, 7 notification channels, iPhone remote control, e-ink dashboards, all over Tailscale
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34 Agents, One Session: What Coordinated Chaos Actually Looks Like
ran 34 agents in parallel today. here's what broke, what worked, and what surprised me.
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Claude Relay — Google Docs for Coding
Built an inter-Claude relay system — one person directs, another's Claude builds, both see everything live.
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Fireflies: 37,912 Thoughts in Spatial Computing
building a WebXR galaxy of every Threads post — Three.js particles, GLSL shaders, hand tracking, and the moment I became the universe
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Giving Claude Control of My Desktop
I built an MCP server so Claude can screenshot my screen, click, type, and control apps. Then it learned to text me, speak to me, and orchestrate other AI agents while I made food.
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Claude Code Session: Threads Analysis Platform
one session — 49K posts to full-stack analysis platform with knowledge graph, Docker, and live sync
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AI Hedge Fund Skills: Mechanical Market Analysis on a Budget
Two Claude Code slash commands that replaced 18 LLM agents with 15 SQL signal generators and one final Claude call. $0.05 instead of $0.82.
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Ghostty + Starship for ADHD Devs: A Terminal That Fights Back Against Brain Fog
How I turned my terminal into a dopamine-dispensing kaomoji machine that also happens to run Claude Code swarms.
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Claude Code Skills Registry
Curated agent skills for Claude Code — SwiftUI, React, databases, security, Liquid Glass, and agentic workflow
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Threads Chronology
37,912 posts — calendar heatmaps, entropy strata, Shannon analysis
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Threads Discourse
9 categories, 35 sub-tags, surprise scoring, Foucault index
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Threads Knowledge Graph
1,638 nodes, 11,155 edges, force-directed layout, visionOS spatial audio
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Threads Taxonomy
squarified treemap, 20 tags, 35 sub-tags, classification audit
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Design Principles
cork board, whiteboard, bookshelf — three worlds, one wall
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LLM-Friendly Site Research
llms.txt spec, personality injection, what bots see when they visit
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visionOS Spatial Web Research
<model> element, gaze-and-pinch, spatial audio — making the board float
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Feature Map
every section, modal, and interaction pattern mapped out
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Design System
color tokens, typography, palettes, component library — the full design spec
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Data Structures
sprint.json schema, bookmarks pipeline, reading log, kaomoji pool
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JavaScript Architecture
IIFE structure, event delegation, focus traps, layer system — 977 lines documented
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Project Overview
tech stack, file structure, deployment — the quickstart guide
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New Skill Forged: The Algorithm Design Manual
The practical algorithm designer's reference — technique + problem catalog. Skiena's 'war stories' show how problems arise in practice. The Hitchhiker's Guide catalogs 75 classic problems with implementations.
New Skill Forged: The Art of Multiprocessor Programming
The definitive textbook on concurrent programming theory — linearizability, mutual exclusion algorithms, lock-free data structures, hardware primitives, and transactional memory. Combines rigorous theory with practical Java implementations.
New Skill Forged: Black Hat Python, 2nd Edition
Python 3 offensive security tooling from scratch — raw sockets to Scapy to Windows internals. Covers networking, packet sniffing, web hacking, Burp extensions, GitHub C2, Windows trojaning (keylogger/shellcode/sandbox detection), data exfiltration, privilege escalation, and Volatility memory forensics.
New Skill Forged: The Boost Graph Library
Generic C++ graph library: adjacency_list/adjacency_matrix graph classes, BFS/DFS/topological sort/Dijkstra/Bellman-Ford/Kruskal algorithms, property maps, visitor customization hooks, and the concepts-and-models generic programming design pattern that makes all BGL types interoperable.
New Skill Forged: Business Analysis (BABOK v3)
IIBA's BABOK v3 distilled — six knowledge areas, 50 techniques, and the full BA toolkit for stakeholder management, requirements elicitation, and solution evaluation.
New Skill Forged: Core Techniques and Algorithms in Game Programming
Comprehensive game programming reference: fixed-timestep game loop, component-entity architecture, game AI (FSM/A*/steering/influence maps), 3D pipeline (BSP/LOD/terrain), skeletal animation with IK, camera systems (FPS/third-person/cinematic), particle systems, and multiplayer networking with interpolation.
New Skill Forged: C++ Concurrency in Action
Complete guide to C++11 multithreading — from basic thread management and mutex patterns through lock-free data structures and the memory model. Williams is the primary author of the Boost Thread Library and C++11 concurrency proposals.
New Skill Forged: C++ in a Nutshell
Complete C++ reference: template mechanics (function/class templates, total/partial specialization, type deduction), type traits with tag dispatch, overload resolution rules, STL container selection guide, iterator categories and safety rules, erase-remove idiom, and custom container design with allocator support.
New Skill Forged: C++ Network Programming
Concurrent OO network programming in C++: server architecture patterns (iterative, thread-per-request, thread-per-connection, thread-pool, reactive select-based), process vs thread tradeoffs, synchronization primitives (mutex, RW-lock, condvar, semaphore), socket IPC, non-blocking I/O, and the ACE toolkit wrapper facade philosophy.
New Skill Forged: The C++ Programming Language
Definitive C++11 reference by Stroustrup: type system, uniform initialization, RAII/ownership, class design (Rule of Five), operator overloading, virtual dispatch, templates, generic programming, variadic templates, metaprogramming, STL containers/algorithms/iterators, lambdas, concurrency (threads/futures/atomics), and C++20 ranges.
New Skill Forged: Programming Principles and Practice Using C++
Stroustrup's C++ pedagogy textbook: class design from struct to class with invariants and pre/postconditions, deep copy semantics (copy constructor + assignment), vector internals (sz/elem/space capacity model, amortized push_back), RAII with exception safety guarantees (basic/strong/no-throw), grammar-to-recursive-descent-parser translation, and embedded systems C++ constraints (no new/delete/exceptions in hard real-time, pool allocators, bitfields).
New Skill Forged: The C++ Standard Library
Complete C++11 Standard Library reference — containers with complexity analysis, 50+ algorithms, iterator categories, move semantics, lambdas, smart pointers, and strings. The definitive STL guide.
New Skill Forged: Cult of the Dead Cow
History of cDc (Cult of the Dead Cow), the pioneering hacking supergroup that coined hacktivism, built Back Orifice to force Windows security reckoning, testified to Congress under hacker handles, and whose alumni (Mudge/Dildog/Weld Pond) built the modern professional infosec industry.
New Skill Forged: Cracking the Coding Interview
Comprehensive technical interview prep: Big O analysis, data structures (hash tables, trees, graphs, heaps, tries), algorithm patterns (sorting, searching, DP, recursion, bit manipulation), system design, and behavioral storytelling — with company-specific interview guidance.
New Skill Forged: DAX Mastery
Ferrari & Russo's Definitive Guide distilled — evaluation contexts, CALCULATE mechanics, iterators, time intelligence, and the performance debugging mindset for expert DAX.
New Skill Forged: Domain-Driven Design
Evans' DDD distilled — Claude now knows Aggregates from Value Objects, Bounded Contexts from bounded thinking, and can flag Anemic Domain Models on sight.
New Skill Forged: Effective Modern C++
42 guidelines for effective C++11/14: type deduction (templates/auto/decltype), modern initialization, nullptr/constexpr/override/noexcept, smart pointers, rvalue references, move semantics, perfect forwarding, lambdas, and concurrency with futures and thread_local.
New Skill Forged: Effective STL
50 specific guidelines for correct, efficient STL usage. Meyers covers the non-obvious pitfalls: container selection traps, iterator invalidation, erase-remove idiom, equality vs equivalence in associative containers, sort algorithm selection, and functor design rules.
New Skill Forged: Elementary Functions: Algorithms and Implementation
Rigorous treatment of transcendental function implementation: IEEE 754 fundamentals (ULPs, rounding modes, FMA, subnormals), polynomial approximation via Chebyshev/Remez minimax, Horner/Estrin evaluation, range reduction (Cody-Waite, Payne-Hanek for large arguments), CORDIC for sin/cos/atan, and correct-rounding via Ziv's multilevel strategy.
New Skill Forged: The Ethics of Hacking
Academic ethical framework for political hacking using just-war theory analogues. Argues hacking is justified when protecting vital interests (physical integrity, autonomy, liberty, privacy) and the state fails its protective duty. Six criteria: just cause, right intention, legitimate authority, last resort, proportionality, discrimination.
New Skill Forged: Evading EDR
Windows EDR internals from kernel callbacks to AMSI — how sensors work, what they see, and the architectural principles behind robust detection engineering. Required reading for both detection engineers and red teamers.
New Skill Forged: Foundations of Python Network Programming
Python network programming fundamentals: TCP/UDP socket clients/servers, DNS resolution, HTTP/web client and HTML parsing, SMTP/POP/IMAP email, FTP, database clients (DB-API 2.0), SSL/TLS, and concurrency (forking/threading/select/asyncio).
New Skill Forged: Gray Hat Hacking
Comprehensive ethical hacking handbook covering exploit development (Linux/Windows/kernel), C2 deployment and EDR evasion, PowerShell living-off-the-land, Active Directory attacks (Kerberoasting, BloodHound, persistence), IoT/embedded hardware attacks, SDR, cloud hacking (AWS/Azure/containers/Kubernetes), and threat hunting with MITRE ATT&CK.
New Skill Forged: Gray Hat Python
Python for Windows security tooling — debugger internals, all three breakpoint types, function hooking, DLL/code injection, fuzzing with Sulley, and IDAPython automation. Uses ctypes to interface directly with the Windows API.
New Skill Forged: The Hacker Playbook 3
Red team operations playbook — from recon through web exploitation, AD attack paths, lateral movement, and social engineering. Includes lab exercises and real-world attack chains against simulated environments.
New Skill Forged: Hacking & Security
Comprehensive pentesting reference covering Kali Linux toolchain (nmap/hydra/Wireshark/Burp/Metasploit/Empire/Sliver), offline attacks (physical access, BitLocker/LUKS, password reset), web testing (Juice Shop, OWASP methodology), network attacks (ARP poisoning, Responder, pass-the-hash), and defensive hardening (10 steps, CVSS prioritization).
New Skill Forged: Hacking APIs
Complete API security testing methodology — from discovery through authentication attacks, BOLA/BFLA, mass assignment, injection, GraphQL-specific attacks, and rate limit bypass. Includes a comprehensive testing checklist.
New Skill Forged: Hacking: The Art of Exploitation
Low-level exploitation from first principles — C programming, x86 memory layout, buffer overflows, format strings, shellcode writing, network hacking, and countermeasure bypasses. Erickson explains the 'why' behind techniques rather than just the 'how'.
New Skill Forged: Hacking Kubernetes
Threat-driven Kubernetes security guide: pod hardening (securityContext/capabilities/seccomp), RBAC audit and privilege escalation paths, network policies (default deny), supply chain (Trivy/cosign/SBOM), container runtime isolation (gVisor/Kata), secrets management (Vault/External Secrets), OPA/Gatekeeper policy, and Falco intrusion detection.
New Skill Forged: Handbook of Applied Cryptography
The rigorous academic reference for applied cryptography — block/stream ciphers, cipher modes (ECB/CBC/CTR/GCM), hash functions (birthday bound, collision resistance), RSA (OAEP/PSS), DH/ECDH, ECC, digital signatures (DSA/ECDSA/EdDSA), authentication protocols, key establishment, and cryptographic attack taxonomy.
New Skill Forged: The Hardware Hacking Handbook
Comprehensive hardware security attack guide — finding debug interfaces (JTAG/UART), firmware extraction (SPI/JTAG), fault injection techniques (voltage/clock/EM/optical), power analysis attacks (SPA/DPA/CPA with Python), real-world examples (PS3, Trezor One, Philips Hue), and countermeasure design.
New Skill Forged: Investment Analysis
Bodie/Kane/Marcus distilled — Claude can now price options, build efficient frontiers, apply CAPM, and evaluate portfolio performance with actual math.
New Skill Forged: Linux Device Drivers
The definitive Linux driver development guide — char drivers (file_operations, ioctl, blocking I/O, poll), kernel synchronization (mutex/spinlock/completions), interrupt handling (top/bottom half), DMA (streaming/coherent), block drivers, network drivers (sk_buff), and the Linux device model (kobject/sysfs).
New Skill Forged: Understanding Linux Network Internals
Deep dive into Linux kernel networking internals: sk_buff socket buffer lifecycle (allocation, pointer manipulation, stack traversal), net_device NIC driver registration, softirq receive/transmit path (NAPI), IPv4 forwarding and fragmentation, ARP/neighboring subsystem state machine, and routing table FIB lookup with route cache.
New Skill Forged: The Definitive Guide to Linux Network Programming
Linux socket programming from first principles: Berkeley socket API lifecycle, three server architectures (iterative/select/fork), TCP vs UDP and stateful vs stateless protocol design, OpenSSL TLS integration (SSL_CTX/SSL layer setup), and secure C coding (buffer overflow prevention, unsafe function replacements, error-handling wrappers).
New Skill Forged: Mastering Bitcoin
Bitcoin protocol internals from first principles — keys, addresses, UTXO model, Script language, P2P network, Merkle trees, mining, and consensus. Antonopoulos frames Bitcoin as a decentralized trust network, not just digital money.
New Skill Forged: Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing
Advanced Kali Linux pentesting guide: OSINT/stealth recon, wireless attacks (WPA2/WPS/Evil Twin), web exploitation (Burp/sqlmap/BeEF), cloud exploitation (AWS IAM/S3), AV evasion (Veil/fileless/UAC bypass), Metasploit, lateral movement (CrackMapExec/ProxyChains), privilege escalation, and Kerberos golden ticket attack.
New Skill Forged: Mastering Malware Analysis
Complete malware analysis methodology — from triage through static/dynamic/reverse engineering analysis. Covers anti-analysis bypass, APT techniques, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, IoT malware, and report writing.
New Skill Forged: Mathematics for Computer Science
MIT's discrete mathematics course textbook — proof techniques (induction, contradiction), number theory (modular arithmetic, Fermat/Euler), graph theory (trees, coloring, planar, Hall's theorem), recurrences (Master Theorem, linear recurrences), counting (combinations, inclusion-exclusion, pigeonhole), probability (Bayes, independence, birthday paradox), random variables (binomial, geometric), expected value (linearity), and tail bounds (Markov, Chernoff).
New Skill Forged: Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design
30 algorithm 'pearls' derived from specifications using equational reasoning in Haskell. Bird demonstrates that efficiency emerges from algebraic manipulation of a correct-but-naive specification — no separate proofs needed.
New Skill Forged: Red Team Field Manual (RTFM)
Compact operator field reference — Linux/Windows command syntax for post-exploitation, networking (tunneling, proxies, pivots), file operations, web attacks, databases, scripting one-liners, and wireless — organized for fast lookup during active engagements.
New Skill Forged: Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking
The complete human hacking framework — from OSINT and target profiling through influence, elicitation, and nonverbals, to the M.A.P.P. defense program. Hadnagy draws on Cialdini, Ekman, and Dreeke to build a science-grounded SE methodology.
New Skill Forged: TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1
The definitive protocol reference — every TCP/IP protocol explained with packet captures and field-by-field analysis. Covers IPv4/IPv6, ARP, ICMP, UDP, TCP (connection, reliability, congestion control), DNS, NAT, and protocol-layer attacks.
New Skill Forged: Twisted Network Programming Essentials
Twisted event-driven networking for Python: reactor pattern, Protocol/Factory/Transport layering, Deferred callback chains, LineReceiver state machines, Twisted Web server and client, SSH via Conch, and testing with Trial's StringTransport mock.
New Skill Forged: Understanding the Linux Kernel
Comprehensive deep-dive into Linux 2.6 kernel internals — memory addressing (paging/segmentation), process management (task_struct, context switch, CoW), scheduling, synchronization primitives, memory management (buddy/slab), VFS, device drivers, page cache, IPC, and ELF execution.
New Skill Forged: ZAP Cookbook
Practical OWASP ZAP recipes for web app pentesting: Docker/GUI setup, Python API automation, spidering (traditional + AJAX), authentication bypass, IDOR, cookie security, CSRF, session hijacking, XSS/SQLi/SSTI/SSRF/command injection fuzzing, business logic manipulation, report generation, and CI/CD integration.
Voxtral Dropped — Speech AI Just Got Complicated
Mistral's multimodal audio model is here. the speech AI space just got a lot more interesting.
Week of Mar 24 — AI & LLM Signals
MCP goes mainstream, agents everywhere, open-source closing the gap
📰 NARSSR Gets a Face
Hero image cards. Favicon rail. Sticky scroll header. Bottom tab bar. Liquid Glass everywhere. The old List of ArticleRowView is now a toggle. The default is magazine. Feels like a weekend digest, not 1998 Outlook Express.
🔔 Live Activities
Refresh progress bar on the Dynamic Island. Reading session Activity showing which article you're in and how far. Widget extension target with small = unread count, medium = latest hero article with image. WidgetKit + ActivityKit + NARSSRIntents in one target — four build failures to get right.
🚨 Sync Was a Lie
nextRecordZoneChangeBatch returns nil unconditionally. Every local write for weeks has been going into the void. The audit found this before TestFlight did. 17 findings total, 3 blockers, 300-line v2 spec. This is why you audit before you launch.
⚙️ Five Dead Switches
Storage Limit, Cache Images, WiFi Only, Refresh Interval, iCloud Sync — all five toggles in Settings were pure theater. They look exactly the same. They now actually do their jobs. Sometimes the biggest win is making the existing UI stop lying.
🧠 Parallel Agents Compress Time
Four agents, clean scopes, different files. Magazine redesign, Live Activities, CloudKit audit, Settings wiring. Two hours wall-clock looked like eight hours of output. The coordination cost is real but small. On a ten-module app, this is the only way you ship this much in an evening.
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bythewei.co
the archive. 52,792 events.1,257 days. parchment & ink.
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simplephilosopher
the blog. philosophy, tech,& building things at 2am.
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storiesbywei
fiction. because sometimescode isn't enough. (◡‿◡✿)
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@maybe_foucault
threads. yes, that handle.no, i'm not explaining it.
Threads
noxwei
github. all the repos.voxlight lives here. ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ
GitHub
not_foucault
instagram. also notexplaining this one. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Zato-1 · puddle.farm
guilty gear stats. yes thisis a legitimate link section entry.
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GG Strive
goodreads
weixiang. reading thingsI then build apps about. (っ◔◡◔)っ
Goodreads