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Rob Ragan

Rob Ragan

Offensive 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

AI Agents

Building Your First AutoGen UI: What 993 Stars Teach Us About Multi-Agent Interfaces

By Rob Ragan ★ 993 TypeScript Apr 3, 2026
Developer Tools

Running Tesseract OCR Without CGo: The WebAssembly Tradeoff You Should Probably Avoid

By Rob Ragan ★ 157 Go Apr 3, 2026
Automation

Read Aloud: Building a Cross-Browser TTS Extension That Actually Works

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.6k JavaScript Apr 3, 2026
Data & Knowledge

GraphFrames: How Apache Spark Turned Graph Processing Into DataFrame Queries

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.2k Scala Apr 3, 2026
Automation

Flyscrape: A Command-Line Web Scraper That Speaks JavaScript, Ships as Go

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.3k Go Apr 3, 2026
Developer Tools

Swiss Army Llama: Building Privacy-First Semantic Search with llama.cpp and Advanced Similarity Measures

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.1k Python Apr 3, 2026
Data & Knowledge

Navigating the Chaos: What e2b's Awesome AI SDKs Reveals About the Agent Tooling Landscape

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.2k Unknown Apr 3, 2026
Developer Tools

repo2txt: The Brutally Simple Tool for Feeding Your Codebase to ChatGPT

By Rob Ragan ★ 125 Python Apr 3, 2026
AI Agents

Pearl: How Meta Built a Reinforcement Learning Library That Actually Ships to Production

By Rob Ragan ★ 3.0k Jupyter Notebook Apr 3, 2026
Automation

Compile-Time Data Embedding in Rust: How codify-rs Eliminates Runtime Parsing Overhead

By Rob Ragan ★ 1 Rust Apr 3, 2026
Developer Tools

DeskHop: Building a Hardware KVM That Switches Faster Than Your Monitor's Refresh Rate

By Rob Ragan ★ 7.5k C Apr 3, 2026
Cybersecurity

Juumla: A Surgical Joomla Scanner for Red and Blue Teams

By Rob Ragan ★ 175 Python Apr 3, 2026