The Forge Blog
Development logs, project updates, and technical deep dives from the workshop.
Thoughts on building software, running a solo dev shop, and pushing the boundaries of AI-assisted development.
Reversing Train Radio Software With AI and Ghidra
There's a whole radio system humming away on 220 MHz across North America, and most of what it says is locked inside a closed Windows program. I wanted to read it. So I spent a few days pointing an AI assistant at Ghidra, dumping live process memory ...
I Built a Fax Service in 2026
I Need To Send a Fax .com I Need to Send a fax. A phrase that still make grown technicians flinch. I ran into the problem myself a few weeks ago when I needed to get one page sent out. I ended up on a website that looked like it was designed in 2006...
I blew up my Windows Install :/
Just a heads up that I blew up my dev environment by accident and deleted my windows partition. I'm going to experiment with windows development in a virtual machine and if needed I'll go back to dual booting .
OpenCarrier.Network: A phone network anyone can run
For over a hundred years, the telephone has been the one network we never really got to own. You rent a number from a company you didn't choose. Your calls travel through switches you can't see. Your "line" disappears the moment you stop paying. Tele...
Someone Tried to Hack Sarah's Forge. Here's What Happened.
Last night, someone pointed an automated vulnerability scanner at Sarah's Forge. Eighty-four support tickets. Hundreds of replies. Over 400,000 HTTP requests. All in the span of a few hours. They threw everything at it. SQL injection. Cross-site scri...