# Insidious Fiddler's Blog

> Notes on infrastructure, reverse engineering, open-source tooling, and the occasional deep dive.

## Blog Posts

- [0x5F3759DF](https://codycody31.dev/blog/0x5f3759df.md): The Fast Inverse Square Root from Quake III.
- [How to Think About Wire Protocol Design](https://codycody31.dev/blog/how-to-think-about-wire-protocol-design.md): Every field in a binary header is a decision. TCP or UDP, length-prefix or delimiter, flat commands or grouped — a walkthrough of the choices that shape a protocol before you write a line of code.
- [Building a Native Brainfuck Compiler: From 8 Characters to x86-64 Machine Code](https://codycody31.dev/blog/building-a-native-brainfuck-compiler.md): A deep dive into bfcc - a brainfuck-to-ELF64 native compiler that parses, optimizes, and emits raw x86-64 machine code without an assembler or linker.
- [Apache CloudStack Deployment on OVH Bare Metal](https://codycody31.dev/blog/cloudstack-deployment-on-ovh-baremetal.md): A complete guide to setting up an all-in-one Apache CloudStack 4.22 instance on OVH dedicated hardware, covering networking, vRack bridges, NFS storage, KVM, and zone configuration.
- [I started being a scanlator. Why, I don't know.](https://codycody31.dev/blog/i-started-being-a-scanlator.md): A brief foray into the world of manga scanlation, machine translation, and the surprisingly involved process of making things readable.
- [Secton Under the Microscope: Pricing, Performance & Security](https://codycody31.dev/blog/secton-under-the-microscope-pricing-performance-security.md): Beyond the security lapses, Secton's pricing, performance, and reliability raise even more questions about what you're actually paying for.
- [When Security Is Not A Factor: Secton](https://codycody31.dev/blog/when-security-is-not-a-factor-secton.md): We stumbled upon Secton, an obscure AI platform, and decided to do a little digging. Even with minimal experience, we uncovered a variety of basic security pitfalls in just four hours.

## Proposals

- [NCA: NC Abstract Low-level Language](https://codycody31.dev/proposals/nclang-nca-nc-abstract-low-level-language.md): [WIP] [AI Draft] nclang.org. NCA is a typed, target-independent low-level language that sits between NC source and machine code.

## Projects

- [Baul](https://codycody31.dev/projects/baul/): A simple GUI S3 client for managing and interacting with Amazon S3 storage services and S3 like services.
- [Go Vanity](https://codycody31.dev/projects/go-vanity/): Simplifies creating custom URLs for Go packages, particularly those hosted on GitHub.
- [Prevent OCI Deletion For Being Idle](https://codycody31.dev/projects/prevent-oci-deletion/): Scripts to maintain active OCI ForeverFree tier instances, preventing deletions due to inactivity.
- [Samsung TV Remote](https://codycody31.dev/projects/samsung-tv-remote/): A cross-platform GUI remote control for Samsung Smart TVs built with Rust and Slint.
- [Samsung TV Rust Library](https://codycody31.dev/projects/samsung-tv-rust/): A Rust library for simplifying API interactions with Samsung Smart TVs. Easily send remote commands, control TV functions, and manage connections using an intuitive API wrapper.
- [Squad Aegis](https://codycody31.dev/projects/squad-aegis/): Game server control panel for Squad. Manage servers, players, and configurations from a unified dashboard.

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