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Long-form write-ups on systems programming, networking, and infrastructure.

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May 21, 2026 • 16 min read

What `cloudflared` Actually Does

A tunnel-based ingress that opens zero inbound ports is not 'nginx with less work.' It is a different architectural class with different failure modes and different security guarantees. Here is what the daemon is actually doing, operating two of them on a single VPS, and what I learned from the hours where the difference mattered.

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May 4, 2026 • 22 min read

Defusing a Bomb That Wanted to Phone Home

The CS:APP bomb lab, defused off-campus: an LD_PRELOAD shim, a seventy-line fake grader, and a walk through all six phases plus the secret one.

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Apr 23, 2026 • 15 min read

Building This Blog

Motivation, architecture, design choices, and a handful of debugging stories from building the thing you're reading.

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