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Reverse engineering the Facebook Messenger API

Note: The focus of this article is to explain the process of reverse engineering, and it is not continually updated to reflect ongoing changes in Facebook APIs. If you are looking for updated details, consider basing your work on open-source projects like mautrix/meta , which is developed by my employer Beeper . I recently had occasion to reverse engineer the Facebook Messenger API for personal…

How Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

I think you should take it down and stop working on it. I'll be engaging our lawyers on Monday if it's still up by then. [...] We were a tiny company when you interned with us [...] Luckily we're bigger now, and crucially have a lot of money to pay for top lawyers now if we're forced to go that route. I received an official response from Replit and my open-source project will be back up soon;…

Kalyn: a self-hosting compiler for x86-64

Over the course of my Spring 2020 semester at Harvey Mudd College , I developed a self-hosting compiler entirely from scratch. This article walks through many interesting parts of the project. It’s laid out so you can just read from beginning to end, but if you’re more interested in a particular topic, feel free to jump there. Or, take a look at the project on GitHub . Table of contents What the…