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Reverse-Engineering An Android App In 3 Steps

Ever wondered what an app is doing under the hood? Curious about what API it is talking to? Suspicious about network activity? Want to bypass dodgy paywall features? Well, you don't have to be an elite haXX0r to break things down. But you run into annoying snags on the way.

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Getting The Soviet Republic Of Big Tech Out Of Your Life

If Big Tech platforms are now countries, they seem to resemble communist dictatorships like the USSR or the People's Republic of China. Silicon Valley's big Utopian, transhumanist ideas are looking more like Dante's Hell than Elysium. A small council control the flow of information and decide what is good for

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Quick Delivery Of A Web App For Android & Desktop

Increasingly there's a growing need to develop and publish across technological platforms, for many different reasons. One of them is vendor lock-in, where you want clients to depend on an installation of your product rather than visit a shared page. Another might be access to the underlying operating system. Or

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The A-Z of Laravel & A Maze of Development Shortcuts

Engineering is a discipline which can be a harsh teacher; repetition can be porous or opaque in how it educates you to optimize, and not simply through immiseration. We have few exams, but many unspoken qualifications. At some point, a lot of technical people either resign themselves to doing it

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Electrifying APIs With Websockets: WAMP + REST

Websockets is a fantastic real-time technology which has struggled to catch on because of the significant knowledge gap between fast-moving frontend developers, and more traditional server-side programmers. To understand how to bridge the divide, there's a significant investment of time and energy required to ascend the learning curve. What's All

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Programmable Cloud Wifi Networks, Linux Router APIs, And Smarter Hospitality

To answer your question, yes, there are Wifi routers with APIs you can talk to in order to dynamically configure their settings, like hotspots and SSIDs. Wifi doesn't have to suck; it can be as programmable as any other IoT hardware. You don't have to flirt with ugly open source