For most of the homelab's life, there wasn't a firewall.
The ISP router did what ISP routers do — NAT out, block unsolicited inbound, don't ask hard questions. That's not zero security. It's just not intent-driven security. Which was fine, because the rack ran things I wrote for myself, and nobody on the internet was paying attention to my home connection.
Then I stood up an Aka...
You become a Forward Deployed Engineer by developing production AI fluency, building a portfolio that proves you can ship agents into production, and passing an interview loop that tests technical depth, customer judgment, and reasoning through ambiguity in roughly equal measure. You do not need a PhD or an ML research background. You need to demonstrate that you can take a vague problem and tu...
B2B cold outreach is broken for indie builders and small teams.
Most SaaS tools (Apollo, Instantly, Lemlist) charge $100–$400/month. And even then, you're stitching together:
I wanted one system that does all ...
Originally created for the Zoviz MCP page. Cross posted to DEV with a canonical link.
If you build side projects, you know the drill. The code is done, the product works, and then you lose an entire evening making a logo, an OG image, and social banners in a design tool you barely know.
The Model Context Prot...
AppTweak is a strong App Store Optimization platform. It is also priced for agencies and publishers, starting at roughly $65 a month and climbing from there. If your app already earns a few thousand dollars a month, that cost is easy to justify. If you are an indie developer, a consultant with a hand...
In the mid-1990s, the world was standing on the precipice of a digital revolution. The internet was transitioning from a niche academic tool into a global nervous system, a medium that promised to collapse distance and democratize information. But beneath the surface of this burgeoning connectivity, a silent, high-stakes war was being waged. It was not a war of kinetic weapons or territorial co...