I am Yasoob! You might know me from Practical Python Projects or the Intermediate Python book.
Welcome to my personal blog which is going to be the new home for all of my old and new articles. You can turn on "dark mode" by clicking on the moon (right before the RSS icon) in the side-bar. I hope you enjoy your stay 😊
In this tutorial, you will learn how to convert the sourcemap files to original JavaScript/TypeScript sourcecode using open source tools. You will use mitmproxy and Sourcemapper to achieve this goal.
I stumbled upon a USB drive locked down with Kakasoft's USB Copy Protection software. Challenge accepted! I decided to crack this DRM protection wide open. In this article, I'll take you through every step of the process, sharing my strategies and thought process so you can break free from such flimsy defenses too.
In this article, I will show you how to compile Go code to target WASI and run it from an Elixir host. You will also learn how to pass data to Go and get a response back using pipes.
Let's learn how to make use of Apple's Vision Framework from Python (via PyObjC) to detect and recognize text in images. Along the way, you will learn quite a bit about how to use PyObjC to interface with different Objective C classes, functions and methods.
Ever wondered how Jira and Trello store the order of tasks or issues? How they can effortlessly reorder items in the database even when there are a million items? In this article, you will gain an understanding of reordering and reranking techniques and how to store order information in the database to facilitate efficient reordering.
I came across a job posting on Upwork where someone was looking for a software that plays the lyrics of a Spotify song on dual screens. I was really intrigued so I decided to give it a go. In this article I am going to talk about the whole thought process I went through while trying to figure out a solution as I think that part is often missing from programming tutorials.
Are you trying to set up a custom root domain with Webflow & Cloudflare but it is not working? I recently did the same and faced some issues. Let me save you some time and show you how to set it up. By the end, you will have working redirection from www subdomain to your root domain.
Have you ever been interested in how Apple saves the iOS backup files and how you can extract particular files from a backup? In this article, I will show you the different encryptions involved in creating an iOS backup, how to decrypt the data, and how to extract WhatsApp chats from an iOS backup.
In this article we will take a look at how we can automate basic web interactions using Selenium. By the end of this article you will have an automated booking bot that can reserve court space for you automatically. You will also learn about XPath and how to traverse an HTML document using Python, LXML and XPath.
Are you looking to break into big-tech? In this post, I share some tips and tricks that helped me get an internship + job at Microsoft. You don't need to spend every waking minute grinding Leetcode. You can be smart and prepare for the interview a bit more strategically. Read the article to learn more.
