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13 July 2019

The case of the recursive symlink: an iTunes outlook

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On a regular Friday afternoon, I pop in my iPhone to do the regular iTunes backup (like any sane person does). It turns out iTunes is instantly crashing when I try to do

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11 June 2018

We Are Developers 2018 - Key takeaways & Notes

This year's We Are Developers conference was held in Vienna, the agenda seemed pretty interesting with a lot of talks and workshops. Our team at Zalando flew there to check it out, I

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13 May 2018

SkyTicket, Video Speed: Piracy Prevention or a Quick Byte?

It's that time of the year again, the realistically-probable TV show WestWorld is back with another season that predicts our future and how AI will take over the human race. It's time for

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25 February 2018

CSS Keylogger: What?!

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A very dangerous yet simple technique has been discovered by developer maxchehab which allows a simple CSS styling script to capture your password. Yikes! The concept is pretty simple, consider the following code:

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1 February 2018

The state of the Finite State Machine.

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There is a lot to learn about a "Finite State Machine". A little intro, what is a FSM? A Finite state machine is an abstract model of computation, which can be

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9 August 2017

Facebook Messenger Bots: A business outlook

I vividly remember the day when Facebook announced the switch from Facebook Inbox to Facebook Messenger, I laughed, I was wrong. Back then I used MSN Messenger every day, there was no way

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5 May 2017

F8: 2017 - Takeaways & Notes

Like every year now, Facebook has kicked of F8 with a plethora of new exciting announcements and product reveals, this year is no different. I flew over with my team to California to

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17 November 2016

Human Speech: The bottleneck of Modern Human Evolution

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I know, I know before you say anything, social life is the core of everything. But that's not what I'm here for. Think about it for a second, you know for a fact

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