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Thank You Pat

I’m a lazy reader. I’ll often start books and leave them halfway, often juggling 3-4 books at the same time. I read in sprints, often spending a few days just finishing lots of books followed by reading nothing for the next few weeks, perhaps. But that doesn’t mean I don’t appre…

ECTF-14 Web400 Writeup

We recently participated in ECTF-14 and it was a great experience. Here’s a writeup to the web400 challenge: Problem Statement The chat feature was added to Facelook website and to test it, founder of the company had sent a message in chat to the admin. Admin reads all the chat …

Living a public life as a privacy advocate

If you’ve known me for a while, you might know me as a privacy conscious individual or perhaps as someone who leads a very public life. The truth is that I lead both these lives; and while that may sound oxymoronic to some, its perfectly clear to me. I’m a huge privacy advocate.…

What was the first project on GitHub?

Note: This is cross-posted from Quora where I wrote this answer initially. The first project on GitHub was grit. How do I know this? Just some clever use of the search and API. Here’s a GitHub search to see the first 10 projects that were created on GitHub. The search uses the c…

How does the sdslabs.co.in domain name work?

A very common asked question is about our domain name and how does it work locally. When we launched filepanda, and our preliminary homepage a long time ago, we had been using the easy to remember IP address http://192.168.208.208. Now, however we are using the domain name sdsla…

Coming back to rails

I’ve worked with rails previously before , but that was a long time back and even though I’ve continued to dabble with it, I’d never built anything complete or large enough with it. This time, however, I’m working on an actual large-scale application with all the nuts-and-bolts …

A month with the System76 Galago Ultra Pro

With my recent CCTC Winnings, I decided to purchase a new laptop as my old Dell Inspiron was not performing up to the mark. Being of a time before the Intel i-series launch, it was also severely lacking in several features, most notably virtualization support, which is badly nee…