Category: Programming & Software

2021

Benchmarking Kafka and Google Cloud Pub/Sub Latencies

August 18, 2021 | By David Xia

How to Install grpcio Pip Package on Apple M1

May 8, 2021 | By David Xia

What I Recently Learned About Docker Networking and Debugging Networking Issues in General

May 2, 2021 | By David Xia

How Kubernetes Routes IP Packets to Services’ Cluster IPs

January 27, 2021 | By David Xia

2020

My Hints and Solutions to the First Three Levels of Over The Wire Vortex

December 25, 2020 | By David Xia

My Solution to Exploit Exercises Protostar Final2 Level

November 1, 2020 | By David Xia

How to Analyze Mobile App Traffic and Reverse Engineer Its Non-Public API

October 16, 2020 | By David Xia

How to Exploit dlmalloc unlink(): Protostar Level Heap3

April 19, 2020 | By David Xia

How to Expose a localhost-only Endpoint on GKE

April 13, 2020 | By David Xia

3 Levels of Load Testing GKE Workload Identity

April 1, 2020 | By David Xia

2019

More About Nginx DNS Resolution Than You Ever Wanted to Know

May 17, 2019 | By David Xia

2018

Using Upstream Kubernetes Java Models is Much Better than Raw YAML

November 11, 2018 | By David Xia

2017

Useful Site for TLS Server Test

May 20, 2017 | By David Xia

2016

My QCon NYC 2016 Slides - Reach Production Faster with Containers in Testing

June 20, 2016 | By David Xia

2015

PGP Best Practices - How to Create Strong and Secure Keys

May 2, 2015 | By David Xia

How to Turn the Internet Upside Down

March 15, 2015 | By David Xia

How to Install DD-WRT on an Asus RT-N16 Router

March 13, 2015 | By David Xia

Spotify’s Helios in a Nutshell

March 9, 2015 | By David Xia

How to Troll Your Roommates with a Shared Router

January 8, 2015 | By David Xia

2013

How to Backup and Restore Your Hard Disk by Creating a Disk Image

December 21, 2013 | By David Xia

How to Setup Your First Scala Project in IntelliJ

December 16, 2013 | By David Xia

Introduction to Public-key Cryptography and GPG

September 27, 2013 | By David Xia

Remote Pair Programming with tmux in the Cloud

March 28, 2013 | By David Xia

How to Setup ircd-hybrid with SSL on Ubuntu

March 9, 2013 | By David Xia

Temporary Email and Traffic Visualization

March 8, 2013 | By David Xia

How to Tweet Automatically, Twitter Bot

February 15, 2013 | By David Xia

Setting Up My New Home Server

January 10, 2013 | By David Xia

2012

Vim + tmux + Cloud Virtual Machine = Increased Productivity

December 19, 2012 | By David Xia

C Stdlib IO Functions and System Call Equivalents

December 10, 2012 | By David Xia

Resources For Learning Vim

June 21, 2012 | By David Xia

How I Stopped Wasting My Precious Life on the Internet

June 1, 2012 | By David Xia

Learning Computer Science Fundamentals Makes You a Better Software Engineer

May 31, 2012 | By David Xia

How to Pimp Out Your Z Shell and Vim Configurations

May 29, 2012 | By David Xia

5 Ways to Security Harden Your Linux System

May 29, 2012 | By David Xia

Turn Mac OS X Lion Into a LAMP Web Server (Without MAMP)

May 12, 2012 | By David Xia

How to Install Vim 7.3 on Ubuntu 10.04 with Ruby and Python Support

March 29, 2012 | By David Xia

How to Setup HTTPS and Secure WordPress Admin With a Self-Signed Certificate

February 28, 2012 | By David Xia

How to Deploy Python Web App with Apache’s mod_wsgi

February 28, 2012 | By David Xia

15 Ways to Increase Your WordPress’ Security

February 18, 2012 | By David Xia

Hear TV Show Characters Say a Quote, Playing With Twilio

February 15, 2012 | By David Xia

8 Ways to Defend Against Brute Force SSH Attacks

February 12, 2012 | By David Xia

How to Send Email with Postfix on Ubuntu via Gmail SMTP

February 9, 2012 | By David Xia

2011

WordPress Logged-in Cookie Problem and Solution

September 11, 2011 | By David Xia

Extra Coda Syntax Highlighting Modes (C, C++, etc)

August 30, 2011 | By David Xia

Download Pfizer Doctor Payment Data

August 30, 2011 | By David Xia

WordPress Brute Force Attack Script

August 27, 2011 | By David Xia

How To Install Python’s Matplotlib on Mac OS X Lion

August 16, 2011 | By David Xia

Dear Employers, JobVite Can’t Handle Word Docs, Is There Something Better?

August 15, 2011 | By David Xia

2010

How to Tweet Automatically with a PHP-OAuth Twitter Bot

November 11, 2010 | By David Xia

Economist Python Web Scraper

November 3, 2010 | By David Xia

New York Times Python Web Scraper

November 2, 2010 | By David Xia

How to Convert HTML Character Codes into Unicode

October 27, 2010 | By David Xia

Why I Like Python More Than Perl

October 26, 2010 | By David Xia

Why You Should Learn Perl and How to Install Modules Without Headaches

October 16, 2010 | By David Xia

New York Times Perl Web Scraper

October 1, 2010 | By David Xia

Hours of Clueless Toil by Me

June 28, 2010 | By David Xia