Rob Ragan
FOUNDING CONTRIBUTOROffensive security researcher and AI agent architect. Founder of Starlog.
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1135 articles
Rob Ragan is an offensive security researcher and AI agent architect who has spent two decades breaking into systems and building tools to automate the process. At Starlog, he curates expert deep-dives on the open-source tools reshaping offensive security and AI agent development.
// ARTICLES BY ROB RAGAN
Developer Tools
Cybrdots: Building a Modular Cyberpunk Desktop Environment with Hyprland
By Rob Ragan ★ 188 Unknown Apr 9, 2026
LLM Engineering
MemPalace: The Local-First AI Memory System That Remembers Everything
By Rob Ragan ★ 1.7k Python Apr 7, 2026
Automation
GoGrabber: Building a Three-Phase Web Reconnaissance Pipeline in Go
By Rob Ragan ★ 52 Go Apr 7, 2026
AI Agents
Goose: Building an Autonomous AI Agent That Actually Executes Code
By Rob Ragan ★ 38.1k Rust Apr 7, 2026
Developer Tools
PANDA: Record Once, Analyze Forever Across 13 CPU Architectures
By Rob Ragan ★ 2.7k C Apr 6, 2026
Developer Tools
Resurrecting JBoss Twiddle: When Legacy JMX Tools Outlive Their Application Servers
By Rob Ragan ★ 30 Shell Apr 6, 2026
Developer Tools
Inside nullbind's Other-Projects: A Veteran Pentester's Windows Security Script Arsenal
By Rob Ragan ★ 139 Batchfile Apr 6, 2026
Cybersecurity
Python Pentest Tools: A Curated Arsenal for Security Research in the Python Ecosystem
By Rob Ragan ★ 2.9k Unknown Apr 6, 2026
Automation
Detecting Your Heartbeat Through a Webcam: How Photoplethysmography Works in Python
By Rob Ragan ★ 3.2k Python Apr 6, 2026
Developer Tools
fwknop: How Single Packet Authorization Makes Your SSH Server Invisible to Port Scanners
By Rob Ragan ★ 1.3k Perl Apr 6, 2026
Automation
Authomatic: The Framework-Agnostic Python Authentication Library You've Probably Never Heard Of
By Rob Ragan ★ 1.1k Python Apr 6, 2026
Cybersecurity
Cockatrice: Building a Cheat-Resistant Card Game Simulator with Qt and Server Authority
By Rob Ragan ★ 1.8k C++ Apr 6, 2026