Author: dpb
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Gemini Could Have Prevented a Backdoor Installation, but It Chose Not To. Who Helped?
I was a few minutes away from having a backdoor vulnerability installed on my system, Gemini declined to help, Copilot and Claude saved me.
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Simplewala: Bridging the gap between PaaS and IaaS
I started content writing about a few years back–back in 2011, 2012 to be precise and I always used a hosting platform to use the services. The simplicity they bring always outweighs the risks. I could create a new platform and be ready to go live in a few minutes. I have used Blogger (*.blogspot.com),…
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I Created This Mobile Game in a Week.
I recently published a mobile game that I developed in about 1-week. The whole plot was a rocket ship that is travelling and on the tap it flips the direction. My brother told me about this while we were playing Apex Legends and I created a Unity project before we went back to lobby and…
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Production Data Loss for twodos App: Minimal Impact on Users
A major incident caused the entire PostgreSQL database to be dropped due to a misconfigured Node.js environment variable. The data for all the users was lost, but recovered soon and the service was restored.
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Developed twodos with TypeScript + Flutter
From a developer’s perspective, it is no longer a hello-world testing world anymore. Todos are the new Hello World. You’re doing groceries and you open the grocery list to find what items to buy and, boom, the list is no longer the last message in your WhatsApp chat thread anymore. Or, you have to scroll…