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• 2026-06-26reverse-engineering

  Reverse Engineering the Renpho Health API: A Tale of Certificate Pinning, Emulator Hell, and Encrypted Payloads · 14 mins

  I wanted to automatically sync my body composition data from my smart scale to my personal fitness tracker app. What followed was a week-long journey through Android emulators, certificate pinning, Frida gadgets, and AES encryption.

  
• 2025-03-17golang

  Diving into WebSockets with Go: A Journey of Learning and Rabbit Holes · 17 mins

  Learning Go by implementing WebSockets from scratch led me through binary operations, protocol intricacies, and Go concurrency concepts. This journey taught me both a new language and the inner workings of real-time communication.

  
• 2025-03-06docker-swarm

  Docker Swarm: The Simple, Scalable Alternative to Kubernetes · 9 mins

  Docker Swarm offers a simpler, more streamlined alternative to Kubernetes for deploying containerized applications. This guide walks through an automated deployment script that handles everything from building images to securing secrets and deploying your stack with a single command.