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Hello, World — Welcome to SDAD Writes

Abhishek DashUpdated August 25, 20263 min read

Every blog's first post is a promise about what comes next. So here's mine, with the receipts.

Who am I

I'm Sai Dutta Abhishek Dash — most places I go by SDAD or R4C3R0P. By trade I'm an AI infrastructure & security engineer, which is a fancy way of saying I spend most of my waking hours on three things:

  1. Making LLMs cheaper, faster, and more reliable to use (Epoxy pools free API keys from Groq, Ollama Cloud and Mistral into a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint; pollinode routes inference across decentralized GPU networks)
  2. Making code and the internet less dangerous (Vulscany is a private, self-hostable code-security agent; PhishScout is a 131 KB phishing-URL detector that runs entirely on-device)
  3. Owning my own stack (Ultimate-Firewall for DDoS protection, Pterodactyl panel themes, subdomainor for giving away subdomains via GitHub PRs, and this very blog)

Twenty-something deployed products, 50+ public repos, one domain that ties it together: sdad.pro.

Why this blog exists

Honestly? Because I got tired of every writing platform being either a SaaS rental or a config-file marathon.

So I did the thing I usually do — built my own. It's called Ansora, and its whole philosophy fits in two lines:

  • Every post is a Markdown file in a git repo.
  • Every save is a commit. Versioned, backed up, reversible.

No database. No lock-in. If this site ever disappears, the words don't — they're plain .md files I can read with any tool made in the last fifty years. The blog you're reading right now runs on Vercel's free tier, and its entire content store is a private GitHub repo you could git clone.

That's not just how I host software. It's how I think everything should work.

What you'll find here

A rough map of what's coming:

  • Build logs — how Epoxy, Vulscany and friends actually work under the hood, including the mistakes
  • Self-hosting guides — practical setups, from firewall hardening to running your own AI gateway
  • AI infrastructure notes — LLM routing, inference benchmarks like ornith-flight (streaming a 20 GB MoE model through 8 GB of Apple Silicon), and evals like Hinglish-Bench
  • Security deep dives — phishing detection models, forensic tooling, the occasional "why is this botnet in my Minecraft proxy" story
  • Hackathon diaries — Sentry on TrueForge, ScrapeVerse, and whatever chaos comes next

Some of it will be polished. Most of it will be the kind of working notes I wished someone else had published before I spent a weekend figuring it out.

One small ask

Everything I build is open source. If any of it saves you time, star the repo, fork it, break it, tell me about it — that's the whole point.

The RSS feed is live if you want new posts the old-fashioned way. See you in the next one.

— SDAD

Frequently asked questions

Who writes SDAD Writes?

Sai Dutta Abhishek Dash (sdad.pro), an AI infrastructure and security engineer who builds open-source developer tools — LLM gateways, code-security scanners, self-hosted platforms.

What is this blog built on?

Ansora — a blogging platform where every post is a Markdown file in a git repo and every save is a commit. No database, no SaaS CMS.