The Forge Blog

Recently, I fell down a networking rabbit hole. I became fascinated by how traditional IPTV providers (like older ISP setups or hotel TV systems) deliver content. It’s rarely HTTP streaming like Netflix. Instead, it’s often raw, unencrypted MPEG-...

I have a confession to make. For a while now, I’ve been quietly obsessed with a specific problem: the modern internet has become a rental economy. If you want to host a website today, you usually have to pay a cloud provider for a VPS, pay a regist...

Building a Serverless Darknet Mesh with Tor Gossip Earlier I released tor_hidden_service, giving Flutter developers the power to host .onion sites directly from Android devices. That was step one: Existence. But existence is lonely if you can't commu...

Bridging the Gap: Hosting Tor Hidden Services with Flutter At Sarah's Forge, we are obsessed with decentralization. We believe the future of mobile isn't just about consuming APIs—it's about hosting them. For years, native Android developers have h...

Axon Update: We Stopped Lying to Dart (And Built a Raw Socket Client) In our last update, I shared a dirty little secret about how Axon was talking to the Tor network. We had a problem: Tor’s HTTP tunnel requires a CONNECT handshake, but Dart’s s...