March 14, 2026 Adding a shortcut made everything slower. Braess's Paradox. Braess's Paradox : a 1968 proof that adding capacity to a network can make every path through it worse. It shows up in roads, electricity grids, and game theory. Distributed SystemsNetworkingGame TheoryEngineering Read more
Read more February 9, 2026 Why Your Agent's Favorite Skill is a Trojan Horse How AI agents with system access are breaking the most fundamental security model we have: Trust. Worth a Scroll SecurityAIAgentsVulnerabilities Read more
Read more December 1, 2025 Harvest Now, Decrypt Later Why ML-KEM exists, how RSAs future is shaky, and why TLS is slowly mutating into something… hybrid CryptographyQuantumProtocolsSecurity Read more
Read more November 22, 2025 Time is a Lie: Why Distributed Systems Can’t Agree on "Now" Leap seconds, clock drift, and why your server thinks it is in the future. Worth a Scroll Distributed SystemsEngineeringLinuxProtocols Read more
November 18, 2025 My College Journey So Far: A (Mostly) Honest Academic Recap Worth a Scroll UniversityEducationCareerPersonalPlacementsInterview Read more
Read more November 16, 2025 The Art of "Good Enough": Why We Teach Computers to Lie How Bloom Filters trade perfect accuracy for incredible speed and efficiency. Worth a Scroll Data StructuresAlgorithmsPerformanceBig DataDistributed Systems Read more
Read more November 15, 2025 When Losing Track Is Literally the Feature: FS pointers! What really happens when you delete a file? Spoiler: it does not actually disappear. File SystemsStorageSecurityPerformance Read more
November 14, 2025 Rewriting Git History: How I Changed a Commit Date to 2004 (Even Though I Was Born in 2004) A deep dive into Git internals, rewriting commit metadata, and why Git lets you forge history. Worth a Scroll GitVersion ControlDevOps Read more
