May 2026 PDF Text Is Not Text: What I Learned Building rihaPDF Build Log / PDF Internals
rihaPDF started as a simple browser editor for Dhivehi PDFs. Most of the work became display fidelity: source text ownership, Thaana shaping, bidi punctuation, Lexical paragraphs, and saved PDF output that matched the editor.
April 2026 Cloudflare Mesh, WARP Connector, and the Routes Nobody Tells You About Field Report / Cloudflare MeshCloudflare Mesh is in public beta and looks dead simple on paper. The reality involved tcpdump, nftables, and FRR before a Worker could reach a private LAN. Here is what actually had to happen.
April 2026 Deconstructing BrählerOS: Reverse Engineering a Parliamentary Protocol from Scratch Research / Protocol Reverse EngineeringHow I reverse engineered a closed parliamentary conference management system — decompiling .NET binaries, reconstructing a binary TCP protocol, and shipping a production Node.js client — with no documentation and no SDK.
April 2026 Two Years with Azure Local: Why I Chose Proxmox Field Report / Hyperconverged InfrastructureTwo years of production evaluation of Azure Local, and why I moved to Proxmox with Ceph instead.