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PokéSurvivor: a free browser survival game with co-op for 4 players

PokéSurvivor was born as a small fan project: a wave survival game that you can open in the browser, choose a partner and play alone or with up to three friends.

  • PokéSurvivor is a free browser-based survival game with cooperative play for up to four players
  • The game features 966 playable creatures from nine regions and pixel art maps

Repurposing closed-source retro game sticks into secure homelab nodes via custom kernels

The Genesis of the $20 Node: Unorthodox Hardware Repurposing and Architectural Reclamation The proliferation of inexpensive emulation sticks creates a predetermined linear lifecycle: brief consumer…

  • $20 retro gaming sticks repurposed as secure homelab nodes
  • Custom Alpine Linux 3.23 image bypasses vendor's closed-source firmware
  • ESP32-C6 microcontroller added for network connectivity

Zero-Upload Image Processing: Compressing, Cropping, and Removing Backgrounds in Browser RAM (Zero-Cloud Blueprint 2026)

Why are we sending confidential family photos, passport scans, and client assets across oceans just to delete white pixels?

  • Zero-upload image processing eliminates need to send sensitive documents over internet
  • Browser RAM handles segmentation, cropping, compression, and encoding
  • Zero-cloud approach offers unlimited processing with faster latency than cloud APIs

Security Testing in Software Development: A Practical Guide to Finding Vulnerabilities Before Release

Security testing is an essential part of software development. As applications become increasingly networked and deal with high volumes of sensitive information, finding security vulnerabilities early…

  • Security testing crucial for modern software development
  • Identifies vulnerabilities, issues, misconfigurations before release
  • Six key types: SAST, DAST, SCA, vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, threat modeling

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