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When Is Complexity OK?

When Is Complexity OK? We all known complexity is bad. It slows down development, makes bugs more likely, increases the maintenance burden and makes it harder to onboard new developers. So why do w...

My trip to Switzerland in photos

Flying I opted to pay a fraction more to enjoy some extra legroom. I’m 6'1, and the extra room is always worth it. The window seat provided a wonderful view over the Alps as the plane began its des...

Big O(Weird)

#!/usr/bin/env python steps = 0 def f(x): global steps for i in range(x * x | 42, x | 42, -42): steps += 1 yield i def g(y): global steps z1 = f(y) z2 = f(y*y) z1l = [z for z in z1] steps += len(z1...

Phishing with malicious iso files

Phishing emails rely on many methods, such as sending exploit documents or executables. Thankfully, companies have figured out that this is common and implemented file attachment extension blockers...

Remcos RAT 3.4.0 protocol

Remcos RAT is known for being very feature rich, with a lite version to test. They even provide an option to disable the TLS, making it very easy to reverse engineer the protocol. I’m not aware if ...

AsyncRAT RCE vulnerability

AsyncRAT is an open source RAT (Remote Access Tool). While it isn’t typically used for advanced attacks, it’s very common in gaming scenes, thanks to how easy to use and surprisingly polished it is...

I built a file upload service without any external library, just pure JavaScript 🤖

The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet

It’s my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice:By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving ...

How to set up an SSH Server on Windows with WSL

It can be very helpful to be able to connect to your laptop or desktop PC from anywhere using SSH. I will show you how to easily set this up on Windows with WSL.

My Favorite Movies of 2021

A second year of the pandemic passed in which I didn’t attend any film festivals in person. I miss it. My viewing output of is lower than usual but still much much higher than that of the median fi...

Journaling: The Best Habit I Picked Up in 2021

2021 was a challenging year in many ways. Other than the global pandemic, many things changed in my life (some good, some bad), and it was a somewhat stressful year. In March of 2021, I almost died...

A Simple Setup for C and C++

A few steps to allow quick development and debugging of C and C++ programs.

LSTM for Human Activity Recognition classification

The approach and results of identifying the most accurate collection of attributes from data acquired by embedded smartphone sensors to detect five different daily activities. In this project, we a...

Set Flameshot shortcut on ubuntu

Open ubuntu Settings-> Keyboard shortcuts Click on + at the bottom to add custom shortcut and use command ‘flameshot gui’ with key combination of your choice :

Don't Wait For Me

From the perspective your more traditional software programming languages, multi-tasking in SystemVerilog is weird. On one hand, the language includes a special syntax (fork and join) that make it ...

Jeemak 74R camera simple firmware extraction

This cheap camera is quite terrible, so that’s why it’s been abandoned, ready for me to tinker with. To aid the tinkering, it would help to have the firmware, which thankfully is very easy to extra...

The React.ReactNode type is a black hole

As developers, we use TypeScript for a few different reasons. The self-documentation aspects are huge – being able to step into an unfamiliar function and know the shape of the objects it’s expecti...

Chaos ransomware v4

The chaos ransomware is fairly new, first appearing in June 2021 as a builder, offered on multiple darknet forums and marketplaces. It doesn’t appear to have been involved in any significant incide...

My Approach to Automatic Musical Composition

In this blog, I will introduce my approach to automatic musical composition, including the theory, the algorithm, and a Python package implementation ch0p1n. What Is Automatic Composition? Automati...

How to Listen to Phone Audio on PC

Learn how to connect your phone audio to your PC over wire or Bluetooth.