What I learned shipping things end to end: architecture calls, delivery habits, and the occasional security writeup. Updated whenever I have something worth saying.
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Owning products end to end, shipping daily, and living with the consequences of every trade-off, why I think every engineer should spend a couple of years at a startup.
A short note on rebuilding dev-aidan.com from scratch, what changed, what didn't, and why I'm off AWS.
A practical first-week-with-Burp post, what to set up, what to ignore, and how I'm building a workflow.
An honest, slightly sheepish accounting of paying for infrastructure I didn't need, and what I switched to.
From an empty folder to a live Next.js portfolio on AWS with HTTPS, a global CDN, and automatic deployments, no CloudFormation, no console clicking, no drama.
A technique for slipping shellcode past Windows Defender by encoding the bytes as IPv4 address strings, and how to put it back together at runtime.