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How we improved our app’s performance by shipping the correct builds for arm
We were shipping x64 builds for all kinds of macs, but that was a mistake. Here's how we fixed it and 0the improvements we saw.
2023-09-01
Better lifestyle: reduced screen time + morning routine
Never knew that obvious changes to my lifestyle would have such a positive impact on my mental health. I go in depth on the problems I tried to solve, hope this is useful and relatable in some way
2023-09-01
Server Name Indication (SNI) and virtual hosting
Serving multiple domains from the same server is very common these days. But how do you know which service will serve the incoming packets if the only thing differntiating the services in the network's perspective is the domain name?
2023-06-11
What is network tunneling
If you work with proxies long enough, you will eventually keep running into the term network tunnels! I have been trying to wrap my head around them for quite sometime now, and today it finally clicked!
2023-05-27
Update: Starting a new side ̶p̶r̶o̶j̶e̶c̶t̶ ̶ product
Been working a side project for a few weeks now, here's a small update
2023-04-26
Notes: Computer Networks
My notes while following the computer networks course by Georgia Tech
2022-12-26
Exploring Scion: The future Internet architectecture
Rough notes while reading about SCION
2022-12-15
Notes: Dark web and the onion Routing protocol
Watched a few computerphile videos on how the dark web works. This a compilation of all the bullet notes from those
2022-11-28
Understanding DHCP
Was always confused as to how dhcp is different from dns. Turns out a lot. But it is also interesting to know the unique case when the work together -- talking with local domains
2022-11-22
Understanding why I write these articles
This piece is for me to refer everytime I start overthinking before writing something new
2022-11-12
When a deeply nested dependency breakes local build
It is common for a node/js project to have many dependencies; that have many dependencies and so on
2022-10-22
Request.Credentials: Debugging a client-side CORS error
In order to handle CORS when returning a 307 redirect, you need to sometimes do more than just return `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *` in response headers
2022-03-05
Choosing between libav and gstreamer for my multimedia project
A quick note on why I switched from using gstreamer, to libav and then back to gstreamer
2022-03-05
Video: First impressions on understanding how it is stored
Videos are way maore than just multiple images stored together with audio.
2022-01-20
Impatience as a young programmer
Have been programming for years but it still feels hard? It is meant to be that way. And you will feel the agony of not knowing what you are doing, almost every time!
2021-07-11
Craft your own browser experience with ease
You do not need too many extensions. You can build your own mini extensions with just one great extension
2021-07-08
Re-building this blog
I gave my blog a new look. Finally! And, all-in-all, it was a fun experience. Here I share the complete process
2021-07-06
Facing the Dangling pointer problem
Javascript has its ways of reminding me from time to time as to how bad of a developer I am. Here is one such experience
2020-09-27
What are Cookies?
We have all heard about cookies. They keep asking for our permission to stay on our browser. But how many of us actually know what they are?
2020-09-16
Cookies: Same Site attribute
Why are these cookies so hard to share? Well, you know it's not "always" good to share. Ever heard about CORS?
2020-09-15
Send custom events to Google Analytics using AJAX
Send custom events to Google from your backend and create dashboard from insights curated from your own data. Take control!
2020-09-11
How to track custom KPIs with Google Analytics
Google analytics is a great analytics tools if all you want are frontend analytics. But ever tried sending some events from your backend?
2020-09-10