CodeNSolder 
Ayan Pahwa
RSS FeedI'm a Developer Advocate who builds agentic AI systems in public and writes about the web-data layer they run on. Away from the keyboard I'm a coffee nerd, an everyday-carry obsessive, and a dad of two, running more parallel expensive hobbies than is probably sensible.
Last shipped: From IoT Fleets to Agent Fleets: Why I Wrote C.H.A.R.T.E.R. (19 Jul)
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C.H.A.R.T.E.R. is a fail-closed standard for governing a fleet of AI agents: one small file per agent lists every model, tool, host, and limit it may use, and the loader that runs it is the only door.
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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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Updated: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 full picture of my agentic coding setup: how I structured a four-agent team, what habits hold it together, and the reasoning behind every decision that survived real use.
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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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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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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.