rwestergren

6 months agodiscuss

I think VMs with snapshots would negate the need for Vagrant.

8 months agodiscuss

With increasingly aggressive usage limits (Claude weekly usage now), "agentic" style of token burning seems much less practical to me. Coming from Aider and trying tools like OpenCode, the "use models to discover the relevant files" etc pattern seems very token heavy and even wasteful - whereas with Aider you include relevant files up front and use your tokens for the real work.

rwestergren

8 months agodiscuss

Agreed. Alternatives seem too "agentic" for me, where Aider strikes the right balance of AI pair programming.

rwestergren

2 years agodiscuss

One one hand, I can see the captcha is easy to fall for. On the other, nothing says "prove you aren't a machine" like "run this code that a machine could easily run."

rwestergren

3 years agodiscuss

If you have any sort of Experian bureau activity, you're at risk by this issue whether you manage your profile with this site or not

rwestergren

3 years agodiscuss

Experian allows unfreezing via their site in the article. If someone can easily recreate your account, they can unfreeze it which makes it pretty useless.

rwestergren

3 years agodiscuss

defaultdict doesn't seem to easily solve for the main topic of deeply nested values.

rwestergren

4 years agodiscuss

+1 for Fiddler, though it doesn't sound like the author was in a position to forward traffic to an HTTP proxy at the time in prod

rwestergren

4 years agodiscuss

I was scratching my head on how he was capturing requests without mentioning a proxy cert, but then I saw the security note at the bottom.

  You'll see that the data for these products is sent in plaintext to and from their servers

The API seems to have a valid cert and is listening over HTTPS - strange that the app client uses plaintext.

  curl https://api.petkt.com/
  {"error":{"code":97,"msg":"App is out of date, please upgrade"}}

rwestergren

4 years agodiscuss

I find CORS is generally a good interview question for frontend or full stack engineers.

rwestergren

4 years agodiscuss

The battery level isn't actually close to dying, in my case it just rapidly depletes from up to 40% when it's very cold. But that 40% remains intact seemingly with the screen off. Could be my phone also, but it has happened often enough that I wanted to solve it and thought this was an interesting approach.

For me, this was just a matter of convenience and not optimizing for most resilient or reliable solution. I do have backup plans for home entry.

rwestergren

4 years agodiscuss

I shared this elsewhere but I could have expressed the initial problem a little clearer, which actually was "enter my home without unlocking my phone which causes my phone to die in the cold."

Unlocking the screen caused the battery to drop immediately - it still had network connectivity prior to that.

rwestergren

4 years agodiscuss

Back from 2015, bypassing an APK signature check: https://randywestergren.com/reverse-engineering-the-yik-yak-...

rwestergren

5 years agodiscuss

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Submissions

Proxying Flutter Traffic on Android with Claude

Analyzing VPC Flow Logs to Reduce Nat Gateway Costs

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Simplified SSO with AWS Application Load Balancer and Azure AD OIDC

Building Pymssql (FreeTDS) for Lambda

Event-driven access to my home after a run

Building pyodbc for Lambda's Python 3.9 Runtime

Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Motorola Baby Monitors

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