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Reverse Engineering Private API – SSL Pinning

May 30, 2021March 16, 2022 1 Comment

Last year, I backed an Air purifier from Kickstarter developed by Mila Cares team, who promised to provide public API on launch. My goal was to write an integration component for the air purifier with Home Assistant like I have done in the past with Snoo smart sleeper and Mint finance. However, I wasn’t surprised […]

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Automate Boring Stuff Home Assistant Open Source

Tracking baby’s sleep without wearable

March 12, 2021March 16, 2022 2 Comments

When I became a dad, I wanted to track my daughter’s sleep quality without any intrusive way and without buying any additional trackers. We were already using a Snoo smart sleeper that is a responsive bassinet that adds sleep by responding to a baby’s cries with white noise and motion to soothe fussing. The important […]

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Automate Boring Stuff

Automate – Tag articles in Pocket reader

July 13, 2019March 16, 2022 No Comments

If you are like me who has 100s of articles saved to read for later and uses “Pocket” to browse offline, you might find it difficult to organize this list without tags. Pocket lets you add tags manually, but that means every time I add an article, I have to add tags and there is […]

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Automate Boring Stuff

Hackathon – Jenkins Nanny

April 30, 2019March 16, 2022 No Comments

I am so happy to win another hackathon at Shutterstock. My team developed a chrome extension called “Jenkins Nanny” after getting tired of spending so much time babysitting Jenkins. Demo

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Hackathon – ShutterPress

December 30, 2018April 3, 2022 No Comments

Hackathons give the perfect opportunity to work on something you love – An idea that has not been considered before, or some automation that helps with my productivity, showcasing an integration that is not in the product pipeline, so many possibilities. I usually have a running list of such ideas I want to work on […]

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Automate Boring Stuff Random

iOS and watchOS App – VLC Remote

August 13, 2016April 3, 2022 No Comments

As soon as Apple released WatchKit for developing WatchOS Applications, I wanted to learn how to make an app and publish it to the app store. I use a VLC media player to play music and sometimes videos and I use an iPhone application that controls the playback and volume. Unfortunately, the developer of the […]

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