1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (302+ words) I got tired of this friction, so I built nowiretransfer.xyz — a free, browser-only file and text transfer tool that works between any two devices, regardless of OS. There's no app to install and no account to create: Paste some…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1062+ words) TL;DR: My entire mobile stack costs $0 a month. Expo builds the app. Supabase holds data and auth. Render runs background jobs. Vercel hosts the landing page. Free tiers cover all of it. The table below shows every piece, its…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (576+ words) I had a pair of Snapchat Spectacles 2 sitting around that I wanted to use again. The hardware still worked perfectly fine. The problem was the software. So I decided to figure out how the glasses actually communicate with a phone…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (703+ words) By Nokka | September 11, 2026 Security researchers at Check Point found a flaw in ChatGPT that let an attacker pull data from a victim's Gmail through a hidden channel between supposedly isolated user accounts [1]. OpenAI has fixed it and shut down the…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (990+ words) When I finished my first major Android app, I thought registration and document approval would be a quick afternoon administrative step. Instead, I ran into a maze of legal name checks, address matching, and government ID submissions. If you are…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (476+ words) Malicious ads on Google Ads rarely land directly on a known bad domain. Instead, they route through a chain of redirects that rotates domains faster than blocklists can update. When attackers register a fresh domain, let it sit for a…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (545+ words) A private server may be reachable only through a bastion host. Add a second network boundary, and the route becomes easy to mix up: which username belongs to which machine, where does each key live, and which hop is failing?...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (481+ words) The bug report I got from myself was: "email isn't working, the filtering is wrong." The filtering was fine. What was actually happening is that a bot had marked 9,133 of the 9,143 messages in my personal Gmail inbox as read, a…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (524+ words) Kabootar is my attempt to remove that dependency entirely. It is a messenger with no backend at all. Your phone forms a peer-to-peer mesh with other phones nearby, and messages hop device to device over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi until they…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (445+ words) A local-first app still needs a good answer to one basic question: how does a person know that the phone in their hand is connecting to the right computer? For iWinBridge, the answer is a QR code. It sounds like…...