All Episodes
The Dark Assassins Podcast — 184 episodes
You Will Own Nothing and be Happy
Software Defense of Apple, More Bambu Drama, It Wasn’t DNS (This Time) | Operation Core Dump
WWDC 2024, I Mean 2026
Hair Force One’s Non-Promotion is Actually a Win for Us
In a Surprise to Absolutely No One, Meta Does Horrible Things, Again
Did Apple Just Kill the iPad?
All This and It’s Only January?
Core Modules (Pt. 4)
Recommendation Algorithms Aren’t as Smart as You Think
Amazon Web Services and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
"Awe Dropping" and Head Scratching
RIP Cisco (Again), Death of a Legend, AI in Cars: No | Operation Core Dump
Scheduled Downtime
Internet Age Verification: Saving the Children or Privacy Eliminating Trojan
Bootcamps vs. Computer Science Degrees
The Ethics of Autonomous Systems
The Failings of Agile
Slow Clap for Google, Cisco’s Back at it Again, Microsoft Embraces Dystopia | Operation Core Dump
R.I.P. Zuck, Cisco, and the Blue Screen of Death
Who Fails to Impress More: Scammers or Artificial Intelligence
The Real F1 King, Hair Force One, Has Arrived
Rookie Mistakes, VR Gaming, What to Expect at WWDC | Operation Core Dump
The Benefits and Drawbacks of Technology
Taking Technology Questions (That Nobody Asked) to the Extreme
CPU vs. GPU Architectural Differences
Memory vs Performance: The Tradeoffs of Optimization
Learn Cloud Computing on a Budget With a Homelab
Building a Homelab for Remote Work
Homelabbing for Game Development
Software Meets Driving, Software Engineer Q&A | Operation Core Dump
Data Security and the Importance of Encryption & Key Management
Signal’s User Spike, FAANG Pwned, Vibe Coding | Operation Core Dump
Programming Language March Madness
How the Internet Works Part 2: TCP/IP
The Cybersecurity Risk No One Wants to Talk About
The Worst Programming Practices That Just Won’t Die
Hardening Your Infrastructure and Reducing Your Attack Surface
Build vs. Buy – Rolling Your Own vs. Off-the-Shelf Solutions
Homelab Withdrawal and Dinosaurs Stay Winning
More Hotel Pen Testing, Homelabber’s Got Weird Priorities, “TikTok Ban” Upheld | Operation Core Dump
Top 5 Software Engineering Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them
Nerding Out on Nerdy Books
Core Modules (Pt. 3)
Core Modules (Pt. 2)
Core Modules (Pt. 1)
Not the Donuts!, Bounds Checking Optimization, Xserve Reborn? | Operation Core Dump
Fed’s Recommend Encryption, Is AI Harming You?, History of Ransomware | Operation Core Dump
Homelab Thanksgiving
Nerdy Things November
iOS’s Silent Security Update, Password Facepalm, Where to start? | Operation Core Dump
Mastering the Art of Finding Bugs
Wallets Everywhere Tremble In Fear
A Software Engineer’s Most Rewarding Experience Is …
Firefox Zero-Day, OEM Tomfoolery, The “Solved Problem” | Operation Core Dump
The Rise of Object-Oriented Programming
If ____ Were a Programming Language
From Mainframes to Homelabs: The Story of Virtualization
C++ Plans to be Memory Safe
The Death of the Great Leap Forward
Essential Habits to Write Better Code
I’m Not a Penetration Tester, But…
Optimizing Virtualization in Your Homelab: Performance vs. Security
What Software Engineers Actually Do
Fixing C Memory Errors with AI (Oh boy…)
Software Development: Creativity for the Analytical Mind
Beyond iOS with Swift
Do Code Reviews Improve Quality?
RockYou’s Major Upgrade, Copilot Lawsuit Update, Is Programming Hard? | Operation Core Dump
Shedding Light on the Dark Side of the Internet
Time to Git Good
“Think of the Children,” Windows Wi-Fi Vulnerability, Tranquility of Code | Operation Core Dump
Hair Force Once Lead Apple Strike Team Launches a New Form of Intelligence
LeetCode is the Treadmill of Software Development
Can Spyware be a Useful Feature?
Dr. Frankenstein’s Back at it Again!
Doing Things the Ansible Way
Want the Latest Apple Silicon? Buy an - iPad?
Hacking RHEL, More Ansible Automation, Embedding Assets in Binaries | Operation Core Dump
Where to Start with Software Development and Homelabbing
Writing a HTTP Server: A Perfect Intro to Cybersecurity and Software Development
Strategies for Error Handling in Your Software Projects
The Perfect Score You Don’t Want
Tech Buzzwords Decoded, 40x Performance With Cache, Writing MS-DOS Code | Operation Core Dump
Centennial, Coding Like it’s 1994, Cache Performance | Operation Code Dump
The Usefulness of AI in Software Development
Choosing Your Architecture: Monolith or Microservice
Should C/C++ Start Climbing The Stairway to Heaven in The Name of Cybersecurity?
What Does AI Think About Homelabs?
Software Development Hot Takes: C++ STL Containers and Smart Pointers
Winnie-the-Pooh’s Favorite Cybersecurity Principle: Honeypots
Technical Debt, Procedurally Generated Graphics, A New Milestone | Operation Core Dump
Should Developers Have Admin Rights
Productivity Tracking for Software Development: Justified or Unnecessary
Unveiling the Vitality of Secure Code
2024 is the Year of Personal Projects
Building Out a Homelab, From Budget to Datacenter
The Software That Runs Homelabs and Powers Developers
Bluetooth Vulnerability, macOS On Linux?, Don’t Discount Programming Languages | Operation Core Dump
How Software License Keys Work
Cybersecurity Wake-up Call
Build It All From Source, Optimize ZFS Cache Allocation, The Truth About Thanksgiving | Operation Core Dump
Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day; Neither is a Homelab or Software
Game Development is the Swiss Army Knife of IT
How Fast is “Scary Fast”?
We Need More Analog, Apple Xserve Keeps Kicking, State Machines | Operation Core Dump
Why Software Developers “Aren’t Loyal”
Hacked By Proxy, Free Real Estate, SFP+ Shenanigans | Operation Core Dump
VLANs Are More Than Just Theory
Bit-Packing: A Memory Optimized Way to Write Unreadable Code (And I Love It)
Extreme Makeover: Homelab Edition
Welcome to 2013, iPhone 15 Pro
Apple Dominates Headlines, Contributing to Open-Source, Homelab Push-Notifications | Operation Core Dump
Round and Round it Goes; Where it Stops When X is Greater Than 10
Why You Should, and Shouldn’t, Build a Custom Server for Your Homelab
Legitimacy of a VR Future, Software Updates Out the Wazoo, Web Scraping | Operation Core Dump
Patching Other People’s Code
Turning Gigabytes Into Megabytes: The Art of Compression
Personal Projects vs. Closed-Source Software: A Debate
Logging While Not Selling the Souls of Your Users
GLIBC Giveth and GLIBC Taketh Away: How to Overcome Failure in Your Homelab and in Software Development
Major Java Updates, Dead Code, Red Hat’s Message To Open Source | Operation Core Dump
Software Development Meets Physics
Why APIs Are Crucial for Developers and End Users
Hair Force One Expands Our Vision
Message to Developers, Refactor the Right Way, Nintendo’s Emulator Wars | Operation Core Dump
Beyond The High Seas
The Three Pillars of Account Security
Optimizing Your C++ Classes
Social Media Woes, DBOS, Google Authenticator Security Concerns | Operation Core Dump
The Dr. Frankenstein of Mac’s (feat. dosdude1)
Tools To Have In Your Software Developer Toolbox
Hardware Considerations When Sourcing A Server For Your Homelab
Harnessing The Power of Elon in Your Homelab (Kinda)
USBs Can Hack You, Christmas For Developers Announced, Homelab TLC | Operation Core Dump
Why Are There So Many Data Structures
Nintendo PSA, A New Xserve User, Developer News | Operation Core Dump
I Use Arch BTW
Cheesing AI, How Shuffle Works, Tech News Lightning Round | Operation Core Dump
Anyone Can Make An AI, You Aren’t Special
Coding Like There’s No Tomorrow
Should You Become a Software Developer? Insights from a Seasoned Developer
Ventura Install Take Two, GitHub Copilot Lawsuit Updates, Bypassing Corporate USB Restrictions | Operation Core Dump
Accelerating Your Software Deployments with Docker and DevOps
Not All Multithreading Is Created Equal
The Worlds First Dynamic Distributed Complier
No, Governments Should Not Replace Their Fiat Currency With A Cryptocurrency
Looking Ahead To 2023 And Answering Software Development And Technology FAQs
My Homelabs Christmas Present To Me (Ventura Woes), Serialization, WAF | Operation Core Dump
RHEL’s “Infinite Money Glitch”, Outsmarting SBF, Are Frameworks Programming Languages? | Operation Core Dump
Dealing With And Subverting Collegiate Sponsored Malware
Programming A Cloud Computing Simulator Using, Cars For Servers?
How Homelabs And Personal Software Development Projects Pay Tangible, Real-World Dividends
Using CMD When It’s Disabled, A Possible Raspberry Pi Homelab Replacement, Twitter’s Meme Bonanza | Operation Core Dump
Looks Like Someone Didn’t Read The Software License Agreement
Wait, Serverless Computing Involves Servers?!
Fixing Broken Stuff, C/C++ Memory Management, Is The iPad Drama Justified | Operation Core Dump
The Hardware That Runs The Internet
Why Everyone, Especially Software Developers, Need To Have A Homelab
CPU Cores Vs Threads, Google Declares War On Ad-Blockers, Complex Code | Operation Core Dump
What Happened To The Xserve
Turning Off And On An Entire Data Center From Across The Globe
iPhone Mini Conspiracy, What’s up with 10Gig, Coding Style Guides | Operation Core Dump
A Mini Death Has Occurred At Apple
Are Advanced Degrees Worth It For Software Developers
The Most Elite Breed Of Developers And How To Be Like Them
DevOps: Beyond The Buzzword
What The Heck Is RAID?
The End For GitLab? How Anti-Virus Really Works, How to Speed Up Your Programs | Operation Core Dump
IT Goes Full Send to Prod, Guacamole + Homelab, TechTubers Get Ripped a New One | Operation Core Dump
A New Encryption Algorithm Has Entered The Chat
Operating System Showdown
Why Cloud Computing Isn’t The King, Hybrid-Cloud Is
Why Tech Reviewers Are Out Of Touch With Consumers And How To Fix It
Binning, MBSE Rant, Irony of Documentation, Homelabs | Operation Core Dump
The Future of Intel Mac’s in a Post-Intel World
Hair Force One Strikes Again!
Privacy vs. Security
The Power of Personal Projects
What Is Operation Core Dump, Why Not All Apps Are Cross-Platform, The Power Of Automation | Operation Core Dump
It’s Not A Bug, It’s A Feature
Building Software From The Ground Up, And When To Reinvent The Wheel
VPN Companies Are Lying To You
Software Development Isn’t Black Magic, It’s Actually Easy
Going Beyond Just Technology