This is the story of how I found 10,000 repositories on GitHub that distribute Trojan malware. They are all from different contributors, have different names, and are not forks of other repositories. But they share a common pattern, which is what allowed me to write a script to find such repositories.
I have a project on GitHub, and I wanted to check whe...
A free, client-side tool for hashing text — no installation, no account, no server.
A hash function takes any input — a word, a sentence, a JSON blob — and produces a fixed-length string of characters. The same input always produces the same output. Change even a single character and the output changes completely.
Deve...
It's 11:14pm on a Tuesday. I'm 47 tabs deep in Reddit. I have ChatGPT open in another window. I'm doing the same loop I've been doing for three months:
I built Agent Island around a small problem that becomes painful during long agentic coding runs: the task does not always fail loudly.
A Claude Code or Codex session may still be working, may have finished and be waiting for your next instruction, or may have frozen mid-turn. If that happens while you are away from the keyboard, the only visible signal is usually buried in a terminal o...
For Python beginners who want to stop bad data before it wrecks their scripts.
🤔 What Is a Validation Gate?
Think of a nightclub bouncer — their only job is checking people at the door. A Validation Gate is the same: a block of code between input collection an...