Just a guy fueled by way too much coffee & homelab experiments. | 🧑💻 @TryByteSend | 💍 @CallMeAByte
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Jun 9
June is Men’s Mental Health Month.
There is a deeply rooted stigma that men always need to be strong, and it’s absolute bullshit. Check out my new post about it!
codemeapixel.dev/blog/the-il…
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Jun 11
New in React Doctor:
Prevent bad React code from breaking prod
Install GitHub Action. Fully open source
npx react-doctor@latest
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Jun 11
It’s a gray, pouring Wednesday, and honestly, the weather matches the mental landscape perfectly today.
If you’re white knuckling your way through a heavy week pretending you're fine: stop. It’s okay to admit the storm is hitting you. 🌧️
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May 22
Isn’t it just funny when someone who probably don’t even know is so jealous that they sit there and accuse me of using templates 😂😂 in 15 years of development I have NEVER touched WordPress or any of those other shit sites that take the fun out of development 🤷
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May 19
Logging onto X, Reddit, or Discord these days honestly feels like walking into a digital elementary school playground.
What happened to the roots of the tech community? I miss feeds packed with actual tech talk and building cool shit, not endless drama and immature ego fights.
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May 16
Honestly, if you're still paying premium prices for choppy Hytale hosting, you're doing it wrong. Our plans start at $6.68/mo and we don't cheap out on the CPU or the network. 👉 nodebyte.host/games/hytale
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May 14
Finally took a breath to document the chaos.
From moving to CEO at NodeByte to shipping Emberly v2.4.2 and ByteSend v0.2.6, the first 4 months of 2026 have been a gauntlet.
Detailed 2026 Q1 review is live 👇 codemeapixel.dev/blog/2026-q…
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May 11
This is crazy. The hacker installed a dead-man's switch that will wipe your computer if you revoke the GitHub token they stole from you. Revoking the token is what triggers the wipe.
May 11
SECURITY ADVISORY — TanStack npm packages
A supply-chain compromise affecting 42 @tanstack/* packages (84 versions total) was published to npm earlier today at approximately 19:20 and 19:26 UTC. Two malicious versions per package.
Status: ACTIVE — packages are deprecated, npm security engaged, publish path being shut down.
Severity: HIGH — payload exfiltrates AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and Vault credentials, GitHub tokens, .npmrc contents, and SSH keys.
If you installed any @tanstack/* package between 19:20 and 19:30 UTC today, treat the host as potentially compromised:
• Rotate cloud, GitHub, and SSH credentials immediately
• Audit cloud audit logs for the last several hours
• Pin to a prior known-good version and reinstall from a clean lockfile
Detection — the malicious manifest contains:
"optionalDependencies": {
"@tanstack/setup": "github:tanstack/router#79ac49ee..."
}
Any version with this entry is compromised. The payload is delivered via a git-resolved optionalDependency whose prepare script runs router_init.js (~2.3 MB, smuggled into each tarball at the package root).
Unpublish is blocked by npm policy for most affected packages due to existing third-party dependents. All 84 versions are being deprecated with a SECURITY warning, and npm security has been engaged to pull tarballs at the registry level.
Full technical breakdown, complete package and version list, and rolling status updates:
github.com/TanStack/router/i…
Credit to the security researcher for responsible disclosure.
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May 11
Is it just me, or is 70% of the day just a constant internal battle to keep going? Doing my best, but honestly? This "trying" thing is becoming a full-time job and I’m exhausted.
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May 11
The open web is becoming a walled garden.
Google Cloud Fraud Defense is here, and it’s effectively making "Privacy" a suspicious behavior. My latest post breaks down the silent 2025 rollout and the technical lockout of de-Googled users.
Read more: codemeapixel.dev/blog/archit…
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‼️🚨 ALARMING: Google now treats privacy as suspicious behavior by default. Users of GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, /e/OS, and other deGoogled Android phones are being locked out of millions of websites unless they install the exact Google Play Services software they deliberately removed.
GrapheneOS is recommended by the EFF and used by journalists, lawyers, and activists in high-risk environments. The audience most likely to read Google's data practices and refuse its terms is now flagged as fraudulent for that exact decision.
What happened?:
▪️ Google announced "Cloud Fraud Defense" at Cloud Next on April 22-23, 2026, branding it "the next evolution of reCAPTCHA." Existing reCAPTCHA customers were auto-migrated.
▪️ When the system flags traffic as suspicious, the old click-the-bus puzzle is gone. Users get a QR code instead.
▪️ Scanning the QR code requires Google Play Services running on the device. Internet Archive snapshots show this requirement has been live since at least October 2025, silently rolled out for 7 months before anyone noticed.
▪️ No Play Services = no QR scan = locked out.
The bigger picture:
▪️ Google already tried this in 2023. It was called Web Environment Integrity (WEI), and it would have let Google decide which devices were "real enough" to access the web. Standards bodies and the public pushed back hard, and Google killed it. Three years later, the same idea is back, just hidden behind a QR code instead of a browser feature.
▪️ reCAPTCHA runs on millions of websites. Every developer who keeps using it is now, by default, telling deGoogled Android users they're not welcome...
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May 10
The hunt is over! ByteSend is officially live on @ProductHunt! Stop fighting your SMTP settings and start sending emails that actually land. To celebrate, we’re giving you 2 MONTHS FREE on our Lite and Hobby plans!
🎁 Code: PH_60DAYS
👉 Support us here: producthunt.com/products/byt…
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May 3
We just shipped a update that improves our deliverability and fixes some more known pesky UI bugs: bytesend.cloud/changelog#v0.…
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Apr 24
I just posted an update on how I’ve been feeling and what I’ve been up to since my last post: codemeapixel.dev/blog/the-es…
Apr 15
I haven’t been feeling like myself lately and I’m sure that’s noticeable, so let’s talk about it, check out my new blog post 👇
codemeapixel.dev/blog/lost-i…
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Apr 21
In the process of slowly moving all my projects under the @NodeByteLTD umbrella. Who knew this could be such a lengthy task!
If you didn’t know I also updated the NodeByte website you should check it out and let me know what you think
nodebyte.co.uk
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🚨 Critical Chrome Vulnerabilities Let Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code – Update Now!
Source: cybersecuritynews.com/chrome…
Google has rolled out a crucial security update for its Chrome browser, addressing 31 vulnerabilities that could leave systems exposed to severe cyber threats.
Released on April 15, 2026, this Stable Channel update requires immediate attention from users worldwide, as the most severe flaws could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on targeted machines.
The latest Chrome update, bringing the browser to version 147.0.7727.101/102 for Windows and macOS, and 147.0.7727.101 for Linux, tackles a massive batch of security defects.
#cybersecuritynews
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Apr 17
What happens when the guy that everyone relies on, needs someone to rely on?
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Apr 15
I haven’t been feeling like myself lately and I’m sure that’s noticeable, so let’s talk about it, check out my new blog post 👇
codemeapixel.dev/blog/lost-i…
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Apr 14
Coming in v2.4.2: named API keys. Up to 10 per account, labeled, tracked, independently revocable. The legacy upload token isn't going anywhere but this is how you should be authenticating your integrations going forward.
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Apr 14
If I could shut off my devices and disappear from this fucked up world trust me when I say I would 🫡 I’m so done lately it’s not even funny
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