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The LLM Demoscene Wave: A postcard from year 2035
Another year of living with LLMs passes by, and honest people are still trying to figure out what these constructs can actually be good for. I asked popular cloud models to shift 10 years into the future and reflect on the past decade to see what happened to the LLMs after we moved on to actually good alternatives. Here's the summary of what was the result of this experiment.
Jun 19 2026
Exploring the Cardputer
After buying another Cardputer I figured it might be worth exploring what can be done with it [them].
Apr 04 2026
LA CTF 2026 - zero-trust web challenge
Shrinking the AES-GCM auth tag to one byte and brute-forcing 256 values to forge a cookie and read the flag.
Feb 08 2026
LA CTF 2026 - a web challenge writeup [blogler]
Exploiting YAML anchor aliasing and a post-validation string transform to sneak a path traversal past the filter.
Feb 08 2026
LA CTF 2026 - the starless-c writeup
A maze hidden inside 58 ELF LOAD segments - solving a sliding puzzle of crash rooms with BFS to reach the flag.
Feb 08 2026
LA CTF 2026 - the 1986 challenge writeup
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Reversing a tiny MS-DOS binary from a floppy disk image - cracking a 20-bit LFSR seed by brute force.
Feb 08 2026