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Short posts on systems, security, and the architecture of software — what holds up, what breaks, and why.

The Architecture of Agentic Engineering

Project structuring, context isolation, and parallel workflows in the Anthropic development model. The strongest agentic workflows come from architecture, not prompts.

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The Multi-Parser Problem in Network Security

Ptacek and Newsham figured this out in the 90s. Network intrusion detection fails when the monitor and target disagree on what a packet means. Three decades later, we're still dealing with the same issue at more layers.

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CISA's April 2026 KEV Additions

CISA added four vulnerabilities to the KEV catalog: SimpleHelp, Samsung MagicINFO, and D-Link DIR-823X. Here's what actually matters.

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The Open Door

Industrial control systems run the essential machinery of modern life. Far too many of them are still defended like it's 1979.

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5G Slices and the Shared MEC Problem

Cross-slice compromise is plausible when slices share a cloud-native MEC stack and isolation is logical rather than hard.

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