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Blog of Haider Ali Punjabi's writings, articles and work.

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I Solved a Stegano-Based CTF Hidden in a PNG. Here’s How.

Follow my journey through a cleverly crafted Easter-themed CTF challenge involving steganography, Python decompilation, and cookie-based authentication. From uncovering secrets in a PNG to reverse engineering Python bytecode, this write-up breaks down each step in solving the puzzle.

Monitoring a Self-Hosted HealthChecks.io Instance (without modifying containers)

DevTools Blocked? No Problem - My Count to a Million Challenge Solution

My attempt at Count to a Million Challenge

Display the time you spent coding in your status bar - WakaTime and Polybar

Tutorial on how to write a script to fetch your coding stats from WakaTime API.

Creating a secure Wordle using Serverless Functions

Tutorial on how a secure Wordle game can be created using Next.js API Routes and Vercel Serverless Functions

Dynamic Twitter Header using Python

Tutorial on writing a Python Script that updates your Twitter Header with statistics and your latest 3 followers

Analysing YouTube Comments — Stuff Made Here

Blog post on analysing comments from the videos of Shane Wighton's Youtube channel Stuff Made Here. He made a video in collaboration with LockPickingLawyer which had a huge number of people interested. The analysis searches the comments for words related to the collaboration.

Testing PWAs on mobile devices during development

Tutorial / Blog Post explaining PWA Testing on mobile devices using two methods, Chrome Port Forwarding & Netlify Dev

Redesigning My Website - Automation, Custom SSG & Optimisations

I recently decided to redesign my website, and went all out on it. I made a small python script to act as a Static Site Generator and optimised it to the extreme.

Automating Android Games with Python & Pytesseract - Sudoku

Tutorial / Blog Post demonstrating Android Game Automation using Python. The game used is Sudoku, and also uses Pytesseract (OCR) to get the Sudoku game from Android to your Python Code. The solved game is then input to the device using ADB (pure-python-adb).

The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim Special Edition - Analysis of Dialogues

How I made a WordCloud for most occurring words in The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim Special Edition

Harry Potter Books & Fanfiction - An Analysis of Words

Graphs and WordCloud based analysis of Most Occurring Words in Harry Potter Books and popular Fanfiction Stories

Receive Netlify Notification on Telegram

Use Netlify Outgoing Notifiications with Telegram Bot API to receive notification on Telegram

Using CI to update Static Websites.

How to use Continuous Integration with Static Sites to update their data regularly

Adding View Count to your JAMstack Website with JavaScript and Google Analytics

Clean/Efficient Coding - An Example for Beginners

Making Dragon Ball Scouter Font

How I made a font based on Dragon Ball Super Scouter

Making HPFanfiction Recommender

Flag Colours Visualisation - From Geopandas to Leaflet and back

Visualising Colors of diffeent countries on the map. Using Geopandas and some nifty tricks.

Making modules for Polybar (Shell + Python)

How to make modules for popular Linux Status Bar using Python & Shell

Tweet2Pic - Share Tweets in the form of Images

Story behind the popular Android App - Tweet2Pic, lets you share Tweets in the form of images.