CodeNSolder 
Ayan Pahwa
RSS FeedA tech flâneur, long on self-hosting, privacy-respecting tools, and everyday carry; dad of two, coffee nerd, and a constant tinkerer, trying to live a life driven by curiosity and many parallel expensive interests & hobbies
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From scattered containers to a proper self-hosted setup: hardware choices, the double NAT problem, and VLAN network design — how to build a homelab that actually keeps running.
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A personal content aggregator for YouTube and RSS feeds with no recommendations, no tracking, no algorithm. Just the channels you follow.
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Reverse engineering a Syska smart LED bulb by sniffing unencrypted BLE packets with Wireshark and Android HCI logs, then replicating the RGB control protocol using Linux Bluez tools (CVE-2017-18642).
Recent Posts
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The rules I actually follow when working with AI agents — where things stand today, and why some of this will change.
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GPG has protected sensitive communication for decades. YubiGPG is an open-source toolkit that makes hardware-backed key setup reliable enough for everyone to do it right.
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On closing the gap between intent and output when working with AI agents — and what it means for how we hire, build, and encode our values into the tools we use.
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Building a motorised 3D printed turntable using Adafruit M4 Feather and DC motor FeatherWing to create smooth 360° showcase videos of 3D prints.
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A weekend project: 3D printing an owl tea light with programmable NeoPixel LEDs, controlled by Adafruit Gemma M0 and CircuitPython with capacitive touch input for color cycling.