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Semantic search in iMessage, iMessage Wrapped, and AI conversations
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Getting a vanity phone number with 4 repeating digits
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Web3, Free Candy, and exploits galore
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Snapshotting memory to scrape encrypted network requests
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JavaScript gotchas
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Writing fast async HTTP requests in Python
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A boilerplate for SSR'd Vite, React 17, and TypeScript 4.3
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How to redeem $2000 of HNS for being a FOSS developer
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Fun VPN tricks due to Apple owning all of 17.X.X.X
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What is tax loss harvesting?
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Zoh-no Zogo: Manufacturing pineapples (and cash) with Burp Suite
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Setting up Matomo in such a way to bypass adblockers
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Unlimited free WiFi on flights with T-Mobile
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Habitat 2020 - Coliving during COVID
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American Airlines is an e-currency company that happens to own some planes
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Thoughts on user growth and product
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Reversing Lyft's ride history API to analyze 6 years worth of rides
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How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses
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Promise.all vs Promise.allSettled in JavaScript
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Goodreads has a time to first byte of nearly 5 seconds
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Re-enabling context actions on websites
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How much space would it take to store every word ever said?
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The hidden value of automation in programming comes from saving mental context switches
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2019 Travel in Review - 52,848 miles, 137 hours, and 40 flights
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Flight stats, entertainment, and trying to crack widevine
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Email authentication: SPF, DKIM and DMARC out in the wild
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Reversing private APIs, Safeway, and not-so-extreme couponing
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Ember.js, Dr. Carvers Shave Butter, and disappearing products
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An analysis of activity on /r/churning
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Compensation in 2019 new grad tech offers
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Useful shell aliases and functions
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What's better - a broken clock or a clock that's always 5 minutes off?
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Around the world in business class: ANA RTW in J
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Identifying non-default global variables in JavaScript
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Experiments, growth engineering, and the perils of not disguising your API routes: Part 1
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Obfuscated javascript, scam emails, and American Express
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Class schedules, a cease and desist from Viacom, and accidental monetization
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Uber, statistics, and a chrome extension
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Ryanair, Hamiltonian Cycles, and using graph theory to find cheap flights
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An introduction to credit card churning
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Making high-fidelity audio sound like it came through the phone
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Illegal streams, decrypting m3u8's, and building a better stream experience
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Leaky vs punch-through abstractions
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The Federalist Papers: author identification through K-means clustering
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The rise of megathreads on reddit
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Speeding up zsh and Oh-My-Zsh
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Old code is institutional knowledge
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On USC's CSCI-350 (Operating Systems)
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Disambiguating language type systems
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Information and economies of scale
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Words per minute is not a good measure of typing speed
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Why does this blog exist?
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10x Performance Increases: Optimizing a Static Site