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On APKs, RATs and Security Vulnerabilities - HondaHack

I've recently been looking into the capabilities of embedded Android Devices in-vehicle dashboards. A lot of these are fairly expansive and well-integrated solutions that offer consumers a reasonable experience, given that a good portion of these tends to be underpowered Android tablets. Looking around for what sort of

Programming an Atmega32 using an Arduino

I recently revisited a project I tried to do about 4 years ago. I had bought myself an Atmega32 IC hoping to learn how to work with microcontrollers at a lower level than the standard Arduino offering. At the time, it easily went over my head; The data sheets were

How to properly update the Gradle wrapper

The Gradle wrapper is a self-contained Gradle runner and distribution that's typically built into your Gradle project. It's bundled into the project is to guarantee that all developers working on the project have a similar build environment. This means that updating the Gradle wrapper is effectively

Visualizing 27 years of mobile devices

Device ownership has come a long way over the years. Smart devices are more personal than ever with a sizable chunk of the modern population having owning at least a smart phone. It's no exaggeration to say that smart devices that are pretty much ubiquitous in our modern

Messing with the DSO138. A $25 oscilloscope

We got a new toy at the office a while ago which I've been super excited to get my hands on. When I accidentally stumbled across a sub $25 oscilloscope I honestly did not know what to expect and quickly jumped at the opportunity to "borrow"

Programming the MSP430 using docker

Docker is awesome. It's super handy for many things especially in the dev ops world but a personal favorite use case of mine would be creating disposable execution environments and workspaces. It's great to be able to quickly download preconfigured environments where I can get stuff

Essential docker - talk write up

So a little while ago I gave a talk about docker where I talked about why I think you should be using docker as well as how to get started. Special thanks to the ever persistent and high energy event organizer for her help in making making it possible. The

Pitfalls working with jitpack

If you work with java or the JVM a lot, you're probably familiar with build tools like maven, Gradle and the like. These are all backed by some variety of Central repository where the tools search for and retrieve dependencies usually such as Maven central. However, publishing artifacts

Git gud - Talk write up

I recently gave a talk at the TTU geeky weekly on Git SCM[1]. It gave a general overview of SCM, basic features of git as a SCM tool and a little about the git internals. Thanks in part to the IEEE and special thanks to the event organizers. The