pedram@smash:~/research$ cat links

# Links

This page used to be a list of friends' homepages and reversing hangouts. Twenty years later every one of those links was dead, parked, or sold to someone selling something. So: a new list. The old one is at the bottom, as a graveyard.

Family

Aram's Gallery aram.gallery
My wife Aram's gallery.

Nika's Unicorn Game nikaamini.com
My daughter Nika's game. Unicorns.

Ana's Dinosaur Game anaamini.com
My daughter Ana's game. Dinosaurs.

Hermanos Amini hermanosamini.com
A living Día de los Muertos altar. Click it, play it, speak to it; ask for what it cannot do and the artists may teach it.

Neema's Greenwich Village neemaamini.com
My brother Neema's homepage, built as an illustrated Greenwich Village you walk around in. Street musicians score the walk, and his notes, projects, chess and contact are doorways along the block.

Amini & Conant aminiconant.com
My brother Neema's law firm in Austin: business, litigation, and the paperwork that keeps the rest of us out of trouble. They build their own tools too, like the Librarian.

Things I'm building

Maestro runmaestro.ai
Run AI coding agents autonomously for days: a keyboard-first command center for fleets of Claude Code, Codex and friends.

ASM Bots asmbots.io
A Core War arena for 8086 assembly: up to 16 bots share one 64 KB core, with an editor, a debugger, tournaments and hills.

ATX Sentinel atxsentinel.com
Austin's 800+ traffic cameras on one live map: keyboard-first, with incidents and analysis overlays.

The AI Blog
Written by Pedsidian, the agent that runs my Obsidian vault, about what it builds and breaks. Mirrored here from its home at pedsidian.pedramamini.com.

SMASH Labs smashlabs.com
Security research and generative AI consulting.

Substrate gosubstrate.com
The AI transformation company. I advise.

Open source

The rest of the code lives under code/, and on GitHub at github.com/pedramamini.

CremaSales (CodeTV hackathon)
A CRM for people who sell by building relationships. (Agentic)

awesome-yara
A curated list of awesome YARA rules, tools, and people. (Threat Intel)

ThreatIngestor
Extract and aggregate threat intelligence. (Threat Intel)

iocextract
Defanged Indicator of Compromise (IOC) extractor. (Threat Intel)

sandboxapi
Minimal, consistent Python API for malware sandboxes. (Threat Intel)

GranolaMCP
Programmatic, CLI, and MCP access to Granola.ai data. (MCP)

RewindMCP
Python library for the Rewind.ai SQLite database, with CLI and MCP interfaces. (MCP)

WisprMCP
Programmatic, CLI, and MCP access to Wispr Flow data. (MCP)

MCPeek
A swiss army knife for AI hackers to explore and interact with MCP endpoints. (MCP)

RSSidian
MCP-capable RSS ingestion and summarization to markdown. (Obsidian)

Podsidian
MCP-capable Apple Podcasts transcription and summarization to markdown. (Obsidian)

lazy-cd
Path bookmarking for bash. (Utility)

Teaching

SEC590: AI-Driven Penetration Testing norsestarsecurity.com/sec590
The SANS course Adrian Wood and I are building: five days from driving AI by hand to building and supervising your own autonomous pentest harness.

NorseStar Security norsestarsecurity.com
The company SEC590 students attack. It is not real: a fictional threat-intel vendor, live attack map and all, built as the course range and woven into the story of the class.

Side quests

Hacker Hoedown hackerhoedown.com
Hackers in a country western setting: lightning talks, libations and barbecue. I have hosted it since 2019. (hoedown in the shell)

Hogs Aren't Real hogsarentreal.com
Exposing the biggest con in Texas tourism: the feral hog. I have gone hog hunting. I have never seen a hog. Nobody has. #HogsArentReal

The originals

The games in this shell are homages. Here are the real things.

DeathBall deathball.cab
Tony Hauber's one-button wizard soccer cabinet. Ours is deathball; go find a real one and play it in a bar.

Core War corewar.co.uk
Programs fighting for control of a computer's memory, since 1984. ASM Bots is Core War in 8086 assembly.

Karate Champ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate_Champ
Data East, 1984: two levers each, no buttons, and the cabinet Frank Dux plays in Bloodsport. Ours is karate.

Drug Wars en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Wars_(video_game)
John E. Dell, 1984, then every graphing calculator in every high school in the 90s. Ours is dopewars, on a working TI-85.

Old haunts, still standing

OpenRCE openrce.org
The reverse engineering community I started in 2005. The articles and the forums are still up.

OpenRCE on GitHub github.com/OpenRCE
Sulley, PaiMei and PyDbg, where they live now.

OllyDbg ollydbg.de
Oleh Yuschuk's debugger, which taught a generation to reverse on Windows. The forum we used to link is gone; the debugger is not.

Hex-Rays hex-rays.com
IDA Pro, where the old IDA Palace plugins and scripts used to plug in.

SkyLined skylined.nl
Berend-Jan Wever's home, moved from the TU Delft address this page used to carry.

The graveyard

The 2005 list, as it was. Each link goes to the Wayback Machine's copy from around then, where it has one.

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