Hello World/Prologue/Big Bang/whatever
First post!A bit about me and this blog:I have varied interests, including science, mathematics, reading, programming, and being lazy in general. I have been told by many people that I should start a...
View ArticleUndefined=5
One day, I shall write a JavaScript library and include this line in it:var undefined = 5For those of you JavaScript buffs, you must have realized that this will break almost every sufficiently large...
View ArticleProblems with SETI
Note: This is an essay I wrote a long time ago, just for fun. This was when I had read Contact, and was pretty enthusiastic about the whole SETI thing.All of us have wondered, at some time or the...
View ArticleInheritance and wave-particle duality
I read Inheritance a few months ago. While reading it, I noticed a sentence which appeared to be a reference to wave particle duality and the atomic theory of matter. Anyways, I asked Paolini (the...
View ArticleStack Exchange
Alright. I haven't been posting in a while, but I decided to take some time out today and post something.Let's talk about a new discovery of mine. Stack Exchange .StackExchange is a growing network of...
View ArticleCrossing The Line: A Premature post-mortem of the Adria Richards/PyCon...
I've written this related post on Quora, with a slightly different viewThere has been a lot of talk on the Internet about the recent PyCon/Adria Richards controversy. Given that, putting my own...
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Don't know the password, not allowed to change it. What now?
So you say I need mysql root access for this?So you say that the root password is unknown?So you say that I'm not allowed to change the password and leave it changed because it may break...
View ArticleHow to make Stack Exchange behave exactly how you want it to
I wrote a post on the Programmers Stack Exchange Community Blog. It's a guide for writing userscripts, specifically Stack Exchange userscripts.How to make Stack Exchange behave exactly how you want it to
View ArticleEditing files from omni.ja in Firefox 20 onwards
This post focuses on Ubuntu, however when I get time I will update it with instructions for Windows.So I've been working on a small side project recently and I found that editing the live code on...
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Binary Pirates security competition/CTF
The other day a friend pointed out Binary Pirates to me. It was a CTF; i.e. a capture-the-flag competition, where one has to break into various systems to get the "flag", which is a piece of text. By...
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Getting started with bug-squashing for Firefox
See also: Tips and Tricks For Fixing Your First Bug by Saurabh AnandSo over the past few months I've been trying to contribute a bit to Mozilla (mainly Firefox). Last August there was a MozBoot session...
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50 shades of green
Update: The streak has reached 100, read more about the additional projects I was working on hereAlright, four shades. Making 50 squares.Yep, that's right, my GitHub commit streak reached 50...
View ArticleIntroductory Firefox core development events : Setup issues
I'll be posting something about my overall experience at ProgramIIEST and MozSetup@IITKGP later this week, but I wanted to get this out there first. I may also post something about improving the...
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50 more shades of green
This is a continuation of 50 shades of green. Read that first if you want to know what this is about.So I finally reached a hundred day GitHub streak!Since I already rambled about GitHub, commit...
View ArticleI've been selected for Google Summer of Code 2014!
I've been selected for GSoC 2014!My project is to implement XMLHttpRequest in Servo (proposal), under Mozilla (mentored by the awesome Josh Matthews)Servo is a browser engine written in Rust. The Servo...
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The battle against self-xss
In the past few months I've been helping fight a rather interesting attack vector dubbed as "self xss" by the Facebook security team. It's been a rather fun journey.What is XSS?XSS, or Cross-site...
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200, and more!
After my last post on my running GitHub streak, I've pretty much continued to contribute to the same projects, so I didn't see much of a point of posting about it again — the fun part about these posts...
View ArticleMozlandia!
Three weeks ago I was in Portland for Mozilla's Portland coincidental work week, dubbed "Mozlandia".In Mozilla, a lot of the teams have members scattered across the globe. Work weeks are a way for team...
View ArticleSuperfish, and why you should be worried
I'll be updating this post as I get more information .For non-techies, skip to the last paragraph of the post for instructions on how to get rid of this adware.Today a rather severe vulnerability on...
View ArticleThoughts of a Rustacean learning Go
So as many of you may know, I really like Rust and have been programming in it for nearly a year now.Recently, for a course I had to use Go. This was an interesting opportunity; Rust and Go have been...
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