J2ME
Come to think about it, quite a few personal projects I’ve worked on over the years came about because I felt I needed to go against the grain in terms of co...
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2020
Tiny CTF, Beginner’s Web edition
I’ve been participating in the CTF contests for the past few months. They have their pros and cons, but there’s definitely a lot to be learnt from almost eve...
MoneyPrinter().go() => brrr
As you may or may not have realized by now, I am an avid memer. Recently one of my favourites is the Money Printer Go Brrr meme that’s so well-fitting given ...
The Sims mods, engineering life, and what’s next
Oops, so I noticed that my last post here was in November and so decided to do a more general dump (and an outline of what’s in store in the following months...
2019
On some points of RFC 1738
Note: this is a 2014 argumentative essay I had to write for my classes. I couldn’t choose the subject I wanted, so I settled on the linguistical aspects o...
Cypress + {mochawesome-report-generator, allure}
Since I got back to using Cypress I’ve created a simple setup for using Cypress and generating test results. Plug it into Jenkins/Bamboo/your favourite CI/CD...
hub.github.com, or how I have to do one click fewer
HN turns out to be useful from time to time. During the weekend I came across Hub, a project by GitHub which allows to navigate some of the features of GitHu...
Flask + Tesseract in a Docker container
Imagine you have a Flask app with some sort of a model that depends on Tesseract and you want to Dockerize it (because why not?)
telegren, a simple Telegram bot / joke fuel
If you use Telegram and have any kind of a running joke / gag with your friends, chances are at some point you’ve come up with the idea of writing your own T...
Readability, revisited
A long, long time ago (to be exact – in February 2018) I prepared a Shiny app to explore the books of the most popular Project Gutenberg authors. The origina...
Removing circles, lines, and other patterns with OpenCV and Python, part 2
It took me a while to come up with an (at least) semi-effective method of removing the text pattern. While the thicker outlines can be disposed of pretty eas...
Removing circles, lines, and other patterns with OpenCV and Python, part 1 & 1/2
Why 1.5? Because I’m not addressing the issue of the overlay text and instead present a small improvement on removing the thick outlines.
Removing circles, lines, and other patterns with OpenCV and Python, part 1
As an exercise in Python and OpenCV I wanted to try removing some obfuscating patterns from a PDF file. This could potentially come in handy if, as a univers...
2018
On saving time and money with /etc/hosts
Recently whenever I’m bored, tired and with just 20 minutes to spare (bored enough so I can’t go to sleep early but too tired to do anything productive, and ...