Pistachio Musings?

May 7, 2023
Delegated Domain Verification
How CDNs use CNAMEs to automate certificate renewal
Apr 16, 2023
Domain Verification using DNS
Best Practices for doing domain verification using DNS
Apr 26, 2021
April 1, 2021 RFC
🚨 Establishing the Protocol Police.
Apr 21, 2021
Running Jekyll locally on MacBook M1
Fixing Jekyll architecture issues.
Apr 21, 2021
FLoCBlock
Chrome extension to prevent Federated Learning of Cohorts aka FLoC ad-targeting code from running in Chrome.
Feb 21, 2021
Solving Sudoku using Knuth's Algorithm X
Have had this post on representing Sudoku puzzles as exact cover problems in my drafts for a long time.
Sep 2, 2020
How to generate a TLS pin from a key or certificate
Given a key or a certificate, how to generate a TLS pin for key-pinning purposes.
May 15, 2020
Consent in Contact Tracing
Arguably the most fundamental principle when it comes to automated contact tracing
May 8, 2020
Contact Tracing vs. Exposure Notification
Some musings on the differences between (assisted) contact tracing and exposure notification.
Mar 4, 2020
Naming map variables
Mapping meaning to names is hard
Dec 30, 2019
Keeping in touch
Current strategy for keeping in touch with friends & family.
Apr 7, 2019
PEARG @ IETF 104
IETF 104 was last week, and I've been trying to find the time and (mental-)space to do a mind-dump about it.
Feb 4, 2019
2018 - a review
This year was interesting.
Jul 30, 2018
Radio
Short rant on radios.
Jul 26, 2018
Privacy and consent in the age of browsers: The question of WebRTC
Examining browser-based user consent using WebRTC as a case study.
Mar 21, 2018
Ethereum scam on Brian Acton's #deletefacebook tweet
A scammer impersonating Brian Acton posted an 'Ethereum giveaway' on his #deletefacebook tweet.
Jul 14, 2017
How to figure out why users hate your Chrome Extension
Get user feedback through Google Forms.
Jul 3, 2017
Zero-length arrays in C have to go at the end of the struct
Why C makes me appreciate the other things in life.
Mar 1, 2017
Brief intro to NFA, DFA and regexes
Some notes on automata theory.
Feb 18, 2017
TheNews
Read the latest headline every time you open a new tab.
Jan 7, 2017
Typewriter
Generate pretty typewriter-style images from text.
Dec 7, 2016
'Clean your desk' : My Amazon interview experience
The normalization of privacy violation.
Oct 6, 2016
Redirect loops and Wi-Fi login pages: Getting around VIA Rail's stupid network configuration
Spoofing MAC addresses for fun and profit.
Sep 30, 2016
git fresh
Git alias to quickly start developing new feature.
May 18, 2016
Writing a compiler for a DSL in Haskell using Parsec

This winter, I took Compiler Design with Prof Laurie Hendren.
Dec 14, 2015
Markdown to PDF in Vim
An exercise in yak-shaving.
Dec 2, 2015
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.
Nov 3, 2015
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.
Oct 14, 2015
HackMcGill

I recently published HackMcGill’s inaugural post on Medium. Check it out.
Jul 21, 2015
Finding min and max in MongoDB with null fields

If looking for the minimum value for a field in MongoDB, use this command:
Jun 28, 2015
aliasify
Laziness.
Jun 10, 2015
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.
Mar 15, 2015
FrontPageOfScience

Last night I realized I had completely forgotten how to use Heroku.
Mar 4, 2015
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.
Feb 28, 2015
HashMaps

TL;DR: I made HashMaps, a Chrome Extension to search Google Maps from your address bar.
Jan 7, 2015
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
Jan 6, 2015
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.
Dec 30, 2014
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.
Dec 29, 2014
Sending email from your McGill email using Gmail

This post is targeted towards McGill students.
Dec 28, 2014
First post from my Chromebook

Hey hey hey!
Dec 28, 2014
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.
Dec 26, 2014
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.
Dec 26, 2014
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!).