#open-source

Discord Makes All Voice/Video Calls E2EE

After Discord announced their DAVE end-to-end encryption protocol for audio and video calls in 2024, they’ve finally finished migrating all calls to use it by default.

10 Years of SPIFFE

A decade ago I wrote the design doc for SPIFFE. Workload identity is finally having its moment.

Stop Hiring, Start Orchestrating: Running an AI Agent Company with Paperclip on Railway

Deploy a fully autonomous AI agent company on Railway with Paperclip. One-click setup, embedded or external Postgres, and your agents.

Stop Hiring, Start Orchestrating: Running an AI Agent Company with Paperclip on DigitalOcean

Deploy a fully autonomous AI agent company on DigitalOcean with Paperclip. No manual config, no fuss - just Docker, Caddy, and your agents.

Post-Midterms Exams Maintainer Break Check-in

A personal check-in post as the Holy Week/semestral break kicks in

The lore/backstory behing calling my virtual hacker/makerspace "Lairland HQ"

From creating my personal channel initially as #ajhalili2006-lair at Hack Club Slack to my current self-hosting homelab journey

Open source funding, a bimodal distribution

Most open source contributors earn little or nothing for sustained, valuable work.

Wikimedia Foundation at the India AI Impact Summit 2026: Advancing Open, Inclusive AI with Free…

Not So Secret Agent

Dev Log 44: 2026-01-23

Hello world for the nth time, I guess? (Re)Introductions, Reflecting on 2025 and My 2026 Bingo Card

(not because my Ghost blog is down as Nest [hackclub.app] is taking the needed break after an abuse incident involving port scanning horrors)