April 1, 2021 RFC

Running Jekyll locally on MacBook M1

FLoCBlock

Solving Sudoku using Knuth's Algorithm X

How to generate a TLS pin from a key or certificate

Consent in Contact Tracing

Contact Tracing vs. Exposure Notification

Naming map variables

Keeping in touch

PEARG @ IETF 104

2018 - a review

Radio

Privacy and consent in the age of browsers: The question of WebRTC

Ethereum scam on Brian Acton's #deletefacebook tweet

How to figure out why users hate your Chrome Extension

Zero-length arrays in C have to go at the end of the struct

Brief intro to NFA, DFA and regexes

TheNews

Typewriter

'Clean your desk' : My Amazon interview experience

Redirect loops and Wi-Fi login pages: Getting around VIA Rail's stupid network configuration

git fresh

Writing a compiler for a DSL in Haskell using Parsec

This winter, I took Compiler Design with Prof Laurie Hendren.

Markdown to PDF in Vim

Moxie

Today I got an email from Moxie Marlinspike. Even if it was just an email saying they don’t hire interns, it made my week.

Boingo HotSpot security loophole

TL;DR: Illustratory/educational post showing how I was able to tweak the URL to get unlimited Wi-Fi at a Boingo HotSpot at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

HackMcGill

I recently published HackMcGill’s inaugural post on Medium. Check it out.

Finding min and max in MongoDB with null fields

If looking for the minimum value for a field in MongoDB, use this command:

aliasify

PrettyPrintGmail

Many months back, Deepanjan and I worked on this small Chrome Extension to print emails in Gmail prettily i.e. without unnecessary cruft like the Gmail logo, etc.

FrontPageOfScience

Last night I realized I had completely forgotten how to use Heroku.

Authentication Certificate Rejected Locally error while trying to connect to wifi on Chromebook

While trying to connect to McGill’s wifi recently on my Chromebook I ran into an “Authentication Certificate Rejected Locally” error. Given that there is zero support for Chromebooks on the McGill IT pages, it took me a while to figure it out.

HashMaps

TL;DR: I made HashMaps, a Chrome Extension to search Google Maps from your address bar.

Running a script in ChromeOS

I was trying to run a script in order to circumvent inane rules that my country comes up with on my Chromebook, but for some reason I wasn’t able to do the regular

Editing Read-Only files on Chromebook

Whilst playing around with my Chromebook, I had occasion to want to use Google’s Public DNS instead of my ISP’s, because my ISP just went insane and blocked GitHub. I kinda need GitHub (kinda), so I wanted to change the DNS settings on my Chromebook.

Running Chrome Remote Desktop service on waking up host

I use Chrome Remote Desktop service to connect from my Chromebook to my main laptop. However, there is a problem: whenever I put my laptop to sleep, I need to restart the service manually.

Sending email from your McGill email using Gmail

This post is targeted towards McGill students.

First post from my Chromebook

Hey hey hey!

Connecting to a Linux box using Chrome Remote Desktop

As mentioned in the previous post, I recently got a Chromebook for Christmas. The plan was to use it for general browsing and writing blog posts, and connecting to my main (heavy) laptop for more serious developmental work. I was looking at Chrome Remote Desktop as a way of doing that.

How to install Tuareg Mode on Emacs without needing a hair transplant

Over last semester, I was introduced to OCaml via a class on Functional Programming. The class was fantastic; if you’re at McGill and have any say in your curriculum (aka you’re not in Engineering), I highly recommend taking it ASAP. And try taking it with Brigitte Pientka.

New Post script

I recently began working with Jekyll, and I love it. It’s the elusive Goldilocks blend of technical vs non-so, Convention Over Configuration vs The Other Way Around. I’ve liked it so much that I’ve even installed a Sublime Text package called MarkdownEditing which I now use for all my writing (it’s so pretty!).