Frank DENIS random thoughts.

• May 31, 2026 AI slop is hard to fork
• May 27, 2026 Pushing to a pull request that isn't yours
• May 17, 2026 Bun's problem may be developing in the open
• Apr 26, 2026 aHash is not a PRF
• Apr 13, 2026 Swival is the AI agent I actually wanted
• Apr 11, 2026 Configuration flags are where software goes to rot
• Feb 17, 2026 Fast sorting, branchless by design
• Feb 10, 2026 Don't pass on small block ciphers
• Jan 19, 2026 An introduction to XET, Hugging Face's storage system (part 2)
• Jan 19, 2026 An introduction to XET, Hugging Face's storage system (part 1)
• Dec 30, 2025 A vulnerability in libsodium
• Oct 27, 2025 Why IP address truncation fails at anonymization
• Oct 23, 2025 Length-extension attacks are still a thing
• Oct 17, 2025 The state of the Rust dependency ecosystem
• Sep 01, 2025 Why we trust strangers’ open source more than our colleagues’
• Jul 31, 2025 Why most MCP servers won’t last and that’s okay
• Jun 16, 2025 LLMs don't need your secret tokens (but MCP servers hand them over anyway)
• Jun 06, 2025 Apps shouldn’t let users enter OpenSSL cipher-suite strings
• Jun 04, 2025 Building a smarter chatbot - Why you need FAQ-links + RAG (and why everyone else gets it wrong)
• Mar 27, 2025 How to enable post-quantum key exchange and AEGIS in Nginx