3+ min ago (321+ words) A Complete Step-by-Step Checklist for Deploying Signed, Verifiable AIDE Integrity Monitoring. Tagged with automation, fileintegrity, linuxadmin, security. This checklist is a companion to the main article, AIDE in Motion, and the detailed AIDE Automation Build Guide, which explains each step in greater depth. #aide-daily-integrity-automation-build-checklist " AIDE Daily Integrity Automation " Build Checklist A step-by-step checklist for creating a signed, verifiable AIDE automation workflow. #1-prepare-the-folder-structure " 1. Prepare the Folder Structure #2-confirm-your-gpg-signing-key " 2. Confirm Your GPG Signing Key #%F0%9F%9B%A1-3-verify-the-previous-aide-report " 3. Verify the Previous AIDE Report Before generating a new report: #4-run-todays-aide-check " 4. Run Today's AIDE Check #%F0%9F%8F%97-5-decide-baseline-policy " 5. Decide Baseline Policy #6-hash-and-sign-todays-report " 6. Hash and Sign Today's Report #7-add-error-handling " 7. Add Error Handling #%E2%8F%B1-8-automate-the-script " 8. Automate the Script #9-test-the-entire-workflow " 9. Test the Entire Workflow This checklist is a companion to the main article, AIDE in Motion, and the detailed AIDE Automation Build Guide, which explains each step in greater depth. #aide-daily-integrity-automation-build-checklist " AIDE Daily…...

4+ min ago (672+ words) If your system could testify, AIDE would be its expert witness. In this article, we take the next step " not just monitoring integrity, but proving it. I'll be the first to admit: encryption isn't my strongest area. Sure, I've worked with public and private keys for SSH authentication and have signed keys before, so I'm not entirely new to the topic. But I hadn't really explored how cryptography ties into system integrity " until now. In the first article of this series, we installed and configured AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) " a silent guardian that fingerprints your Linux system and detects when files change unexpectedly. It's an excellent tool for monitoring file integrity, but it raises an important question: If AIDE verifies the integrity of your files, who verifies the integrity of AIDE? That's where hashing and cryptographic signing come into…...

16+ min ago (785+ words) AES is a symmetric-key encryption algorithm that is considered extremely secure, very easy to implement, and used in real world. This guide teaches you how to implement its 128-bit CTR mode variant, in C language. The procedure: Note: Secretly sharing the key is done using a protocol like Diffie-Hellman. It's not covered in this guide. First half of the guide focuses on implementing the following function: This function encrypts the given 16-byte block using a 16-byte key. This function can be thought of a pipeline of multiple functions applied on the block one after the other. The 11 "Apply Key" steps all use a different round key, derived from the main cipher key using the function getNthRoundKey. The second half of the guide works towards defining the following functions by repeatedly using AES128. Note that the block is in column-major order, meaning…...

28+ min ago (307+ words) TL;DR: I built a pretty full feature, ad-free card game suite (Spades, Hearts, Solitaire) using Google's Gemini AI Studio in HOURS. Building on my earlier experiment: I built a game in less than day This article breaks down how Google AI Studio architected complex game states and help me designed a unique hybrid game mode called "Spadearts". Mobile card games today are plagued by ads, loot boxes, and clunky interfaces. I wanted to build Trickster's Table: a clean web app that feels like a premium native experience and runs instantly. Note: AI wrote and rewrote 100% of the code used in this app, I only used prompts I didn't just stop at one game. The suite includes: Building a multi-game engine is complex, that's why I leveraged Google AI Studio during the development cycle: I used Gemini to define games,…...

33+ min ago (116+ words) For my next project, I wanted to work with a public API and learn how to fetch external data in Python. So I built a simple Weather App using wttr.in, which provides weather data without requiring an API key. This project has two versions: This small project helped me learn how to make API requests, handle JSON data, and build a clean UI with Streamlit. The Weather App allows you to: Simple, clean, and useful " exactly what I want for my Python practice. I chose wttr.in because it: Because Streamlit turns Python scripts into fast, interactive web apps " perfect for tools like this. Streamlit will automatically open a browser window for the web UI....

34+ min ago (623+ words) This article provides a practical guide to implementing Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) in your projects. It's part two of a series exploring modern search optimization techniques for developers. Read part one here. Implementing Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) means structuring your content so AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, and Google Gemini can easily parse, understand, and cite your work. While the first article in this series explained what GEO is and why it matters, this guide shows you how to apply GEO principles in real projects using Astro components. Generative Engine Optimization for Astro involves ensuring your site's content is both human-readable (good UX) and machine-readable (good parsing for AI and search engines). The essential GEO strategies you can implement in Astro include: Semantic HTML Structure: Use proper HTML5 semantic elements including , , , , and tags. These elements provide clear content hierarchy that AI…...

47+ min ago (767+ words) When artificial intelligence systems lie with unwavering certainty, who's really to blame'the machine or the humans who taught it to never admit doubt? Ankit spent three weeks building his machine learning capstone project around a research paper that didn't exist. He was a third-year computer science student studying neural networks and transformer architectures. For his project on natural language processing, he asked an AI assistant for recent papers on attention mechanisms. He used all the available AI tools and finished the work in a few days. The tools gave him five paper summaries with examples, complete with authors and journal names. He built his entire review and paper around them. His professor found out during the first review ' none of the papers were real. None of the papers were real. The AI had fabricated everything'down to fake researcher names at…...

49+ min ago (122+ words) This project implements a simple Notes WebApp using Google Cloud (GCP) serverless services: Firestore, Cloud Functions, and a static frontend hosted on Cloud Storage. 1. NoSQL database: Firestore in Native mode, collection notes. 2. Serverless backend: Cloud Functions (Python) exposing a mini REST API: 3. Frontend: Web page (HTML/CSS/JS) hosted as a static site in Cloud Storage. Create the file main.py Includes functionality: create, list, edit, delete notes + CORS. Create the file requirements.txt Get and store the URL: Get and store the service account used by the function: Grant Firestore permissions to that service account Create the file index.html Create the file styles.css Create the file app.js " Replace API_BASE_URL with your Cloud Function URL....

53+ min ago (105+ words) A dev resume isn't just a list - it's a context + impact sales doc. After reviewing more than 25 developer resumes (mobile, backend, fullstack, career changers, etc.), the same 3 mistakes kept showing up. The most common error: the whole resume is written like this: That says nothing about: Recruiters read this all day. It turns into noise. Fix: turn each bullet into technical action + what + how + metric/scale Lots of people fell into these: Fix: One column only Saw this a lot: Fix: Only list tech you can defend in an interview and tie each one to a role or project....

55+ min ago (1432+ words) TL;DR: Scanners that run automatically, findings that aggregate in one place, reports that don't make stakeholders' eyes glaze over. For small-to-medium engineering teams who need real security without hiring a dedicated AppSec team. Who is this guide for? Teams without a dedicated AppSec function, platform engineers, or DevOps teams who want a practical, tool-agnostic blueprint for continuous security in CI/CD. Security scanners are cheap. Security architecture that developers don't hate is expensive. Most teams end up with a mess: SAST runs somewhere in Jenkins, Snyk emails get ignored, and pentest reports live in Google Drive where findings go to die. Developers don't ignore security findings because they're lazy'they ignore them because findings arrive in 47 different places with zero context. This is the architecture I built and actually use. Not a vendor pitch. Not enterprise theater. Just the stack that…...