umar0x
$ whoami --long
“I ask binaries nicely to reveal their secrets.”
/about
manifesto.txtHi, I'm Umar Pathan. I break things for a living, mostly parsers and daemons that forgot the internet is hostile.
Most of what interests me starts small: a weird crash, an impossible state, a line of code nobody has touched in years.
The interesting part is finding out why it was possible at all.
/activity_log
tail -n 5- 2026.08.09blog: "i fixed a bug that lived in ffmpeg for 8 years"
- 2026.08.08site rebuilt from scratch, again
/contact
pingmailhello@umar.ac
signalon request
cold emails welcome, especially the ones with a stack trace attached.