JWT Validation: Verifying Tokens for Authentication and Authorization
JWT Validation: Verifying Tokens for Authentication and Authorization A practical guide to JWT validation — the process of checking a JSON Web Token's…
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About Manab Protim Hazarika
Manab Protim Hazarika didn't take the usual route into software. Growing up in Titabor, a small town in the Jorhat district of Assam, he completed his…
What Learning Without AI Taught the Last Pre-AI Generation
Originally published on robatdasorvi.com I learned to code in 2013 by being confused, searching for help, being confused again, and then eventually un…
Why Your AI Agents Need Finite State Machines: Building Deterministic Workflows in a Vibe-Coding World
Originally published on tamiz.pro . The rise of "vibe coding" has democratized software development, allowing developers to build complex applications…
Different Types of Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks & Their Mitigations
Disclaimer: This article is intended for educational purposes related to cybersecurity, defensive security, and authorized security testing only. DoS/…
Hello, DEV! I'm excited to join the DEV Community.
I am a software developer committed to continuous learning, building, and professional growth. Each project presents an opportunity to refine my skill…
Building a Secure Local AI Agent on Open-Source Infrastructure: Lessons from SGLang, Olares, and Real-World Audits
Originally published on tamiz.pro . The promise of Local AI is data sovereignty. By running Large Language Models (LLMs) entirely on-premise, organiza…
Learning to Learn: The Biggest Lesson I've Gained at Zone01 Kisumu
Learning to Learn: The Biggest Lesson I've Gained at Zone01 Kisumu When most people think about learning software engineering, they picture classrooms…
Common Mistakes Beginner Software Engineers Make (And How to Avoid Them)
Starting a career in software engineering is exciting, but it can also be overwhelming. With countless programming languages, frameworks, tools, and b…
Starting Terraria modding (again)
This is my first dev blog I'm making a terraria mod I'm not sure if i want to start right now but i am sure to start soon i already have some ideas so…
The Most Enduring Skills of a Software Engineer
Understanding software architecture, adaptability, risk assessment, and writing readable code. There is a harmful myth that a developer’s job is solel…
My First Experience Learning Go During the Piscine
I started learning Go out of curiosity and because I wanted to experience a peer-to-peer learning environment. My journey began during the LakeHub Pis…
From Rust Fuzzing to AI Agents: Building Secure, Memory-Aware Software in the Age of Autonomous Development
Originally published on tamiz.pro . The landscape of software development is undergoing a tectonic shift. For decades, memory safety and security have…
Optimizing LLM Context Windows: Implementing Lossless Compression Strategies for RAG Agents
Originally published on tamiz.pro . The context window is the single most expensive bottleneck in modern Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architec…
AI Changes the Tools, Not the Fundamentals
This may sound counterintuitive, but in the era of AI, less is more. AI can help anyone write code faster, but it can't replace an understanding of ho…
Managing Monorepos at Scale: Lessons from Meta, AWS, and a 15-Repo Migration
Early in my career, I thought polyrepos were the way. Microservices, each in their own repo, independently deployable — it felt clean and modern. Then…
Knowing What’s Under the Hood Helps
I’m not a car guy. I can drive them, but I don’t know the first thing about fixing them, and not much about maintaining them. My son, on the other han…
Docker: Packaging Applications with Their Dependencies
Docker: Packaging Applications with Their Dependencies A practical guide to Docker — the container platform that packages an application together with…
The Moment the Server Room Goes Dark
The usual warning about AI starts like this: the moment the lights go out in the server room, every step we leaped forward with AI snaps back to where…
5 of the biggest mistakes i made in my first project.
Building my first website was exciting, but it taught me that creating something people actually enjoy using is much harder than just writing code. He…
🐈⬛Check Out Catbot's New Leg!
This is fun. I absolutely must share. So I recently created a desktop pet, called Catbot. Catbot is voice activated and has memory in an obsidian vaul…
My Solo Dive into the world of Atomic Red Team Testing
Introduction 1.1 "Teaser" overview In this project, I took a personal journey, with the guidance and support of my instructors and people very dear to…
Debugging a Broken Ingress Setup: A Step-by-Step Walkthrough
This post documents a real debugging session that started with a simple symptom — example.com wouldn't load — and ended up uncovering several separate…
How to get started with Web Accessibility in 2026
Pretty much exactly four years ago, I shared an article about 5 places to get started with Web Accessibility - and while much of that still holds, the…
Database Migrations: Managing Schema Changes as Version-Controlled Code
Database Migrations: Managing Schema Changes as Version-Controlled Code A practical guide to database migrations — the discipline of evolving a databa…
Do It Wrong First
Somewhere in your organization there is a slide that says do it right the first time to save costs. I have sat in the room where that slide goes up. I…
Cybersecurity Beginner's Dilemma: Navigating Specialized Areas and Next Steps for Focused Learning
Introduction: Strategic Entry into Cybersecurity The cybersecurity domain operates as a dynamically evolving ecosystem, characterized by the rapid eme…
Physicists Pulled Energy Out of a "Black Hole" on a Tabletop
Fifty years ago, Roger Penrose sketched an idea so audacious it sounded like a trick. Drop an object into the swirling region just outside a spinning …
Daily Math Insight: Saturday, July 4
Daily Math Insight: Saturday, July 4 — Mastering Modular Arithmetic: The Hidden Language of Patterns Here's a question that stumps most students: What…
The Best Free Code Editor for Beginners in 2026
Last month, I had a simple goal: find the best free online code editor for beginners learning web development. I spent two weeks testing CodePen, JSFi…