Evil0ctal — gods.devPersonal site of Evil0ctal: security research, open-source tools, hacker culture, and a terminal that talks back.https://gods.dev/Scraping at scale: what 19k stars taught me about async APIshttps://gods.dev/blog/async-scraping-at-scale/https://gods.dev/blog/async-scraping-at-scale/Douyin_TikTok_Download_API started as a script to grab a watermark-free video. It became a FastAPI service with 19k stars. Here is what async I/O, request signing, and a popular repo actually cost.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTReversing WeChat Channels: XOR, Isaac64, and a WASM module that didn't want to be readhttps://gods.dev/blog/reversing-wechat-channels/https://gods.dev/blog/reversing-wechat-channels/The encrypted videos in WeChat Channels are not protected by strong crypto. They are XOR-ed against a keystream from a WebAssembly PRNG. Here is how you find that out, and why it matters.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTRunning Whisper as a service: a producer-consumer model for multi-GPU ASRhttps://gods.dev/blog/whisper-as-a-service/https://gods.dev/blog/whisper-as-a-service/A single Whisper call is easy. Turning it into an API that keeps N GPUs busy without melting under load is a scheduling problem. Here is the producer-consumer design behind the Whisper Services API.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTLove, According to Paul (1 Corinthians 13)https://gods.dev/study/love-according-to-paul/https://gods.dev/study/love-according-to-paul/The "love chapter" gets read at weddings, but Paul wrote it to a church at war with itself. A study of 1 Corinthians 13 in its original, uncomfortable context.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Sermon on the Mount: An Upside-Down Kingdomhttps://gods.dev/study/sermon-on-the-mount/https://gods.dev/study/sermon-on-the-mount/Matthew 5-7 is the most quoted, least practiced speech in history. A study of the Beatitudes and the strange logic of a kingdom where the poor are congratulated.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Prodigal Son: The Father Who Runshttps://gods.dev/study/the-prodigal-son/https://gods.dev/study/the-prodigal-son/A close reading of Luke 15:11-32 — the most famous story Jesus ever told, and why the real scandal in it is not the son who left, but the father who ran.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTBuilding gods.dev: a terminal that pretends to be a homepagehttps://gods.dev/blog/building-gods-dev/https://gods.dev/blog/building-gods-dev/Why my personal site boots like a kernel, takes commands like a shell, and hides flags like a CTF — built with Astro, deployed on GitHub Pages.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT