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Building DotScramble Part 2: Ed25519 License Signing, Machine Fingerprinting, and a 7-Day Offline Grace Period

Dev.to · freerave 🔧 Backend Engineering 2mo ago

Building DotScramble Part 2: Ed25519 License Signing, Machine Fingerprinting, and a 7-Day Offline Grace Period

How DotScramble protects its Pro tier using asymmetric cryptography — public key verification, a...

I Built a Code Screenshot Tool Inside My VS Code Extension — Here's How It Works (DotShare v3.4.0)

Dev.to · freerave 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago

I Built a Code Screenshot Tool Inside My VS Code Extension — Here's How It Works (DotShare v3.4.0)

You know that moment when you write a function you're genuinely proud of, and you want to share it on...

I Hardened a Rust Media Upload API with Magic Bytes, Atomic Quotas, and Race Condition Fixes (Part 3)

Dev.to · freerave 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago

I Hardened a Rust Media Upload API with Magic Bytes, Atomic Quotas, and Race Condition Fixes (Part 3)

How we built a production-grade Cloudflare R2 upload pipeline in Rust — with layered...

I Built a Fail-Fast Rust Scheduler with Background OAuth Auto-Refresh (Part 2)

Dev.to · freerave 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago

I Built a Fail-Fast Rust Scheduler with Background OAuth Auto-Refresh (Part 2)

In Part 1 of this backend series, I broke down the core architecture of dotsuite-core — a private...

I Built a Private Rust Backend to Power 18 Developer Tools — Here's the Architecture

Dev.to · freerave 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago

I Built a Private Rust Backend to Power 18 Developer Tools — Here's the Architecture

A deep dive into building a production-grade Rust API server with multi-tier scheduling,...

Conquering the Reddit API: How to Natively Upload Images via Node.js (And Survive the S3 Boss Fight)

Dev.to · freerave 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago

Conquering the Reddit API: How to Natively Upload Images via Node.js (And Survive the S3 Boss Fight)

A step-by-step guide to defeating the undocumented traps of Reddit's native image upload API,...

Building a Production-Ready OAuth Server for a VS Code Extension — Token Lifecycle, Auto-Refresh & Edge Rate Limiting

Dev.to · freerave 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 5mo ago

Building a Production-Ready OAuth Server for a VS Code Extension — Token Lifecycle, Auto-Refresh & Edge Rate Limiting

How we built DotShare Auth: a Next.js 16 OAuth portal that handles token exchange, automatic...

DotGhostBoard v1.3.0 "Wraith" — Tags, Collections, Multi-Select & Export 👻

Dev.to · freerave 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 5mo ago

DotGhostBoard v1.3.0 "Wraith" — Tags, Collections, Multi-Select & Export 👻

A deep dive into every feature shipped in the Wraith release of my open-source PyQt6 clipboard...

I Built a Clipboard Manager for Kali Linux — And Learned Way More Than Expected

Dev.to · freerave 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 5mo ago

I Built a Clipboard Manager for Kali Linux — And Learned Way More Than Expected

So here's how it started: I kept losing code snippets, IP addresses, and payloads between windows...

Scaling Shredzilla: Slaying Memory Leaks & Mastering State in Jetpack Compose

Dev.to · freerave 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 5mo ago

Scaling Shredzilla: Slaying Memory Leaks & Mastering State in Jetpack Compose

Building a fitness app is easy. Building a production-ready, offline-capable, memory-efficient...

How I Finished a 4-Week MongoDB Challenge in 3 Weeks (The Power of Research)

Dev.to · freerave 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 5mo ago

How I Finished a 4-Week MongoDB Challenge in 3 Weeks (The Power of Research)

If you’ve been participating in the MongoDB Ramadan Challenge, you probably know that the official...