Category: miscellaneous
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The “Are you sure?” ChatGPT Hack
The more I use ChatGPT, the more I tend to learn about its intricacies and nuances. One of my latest discoveries is the “Are you sure?” hack: Yet another example: Both chats were with 4o. What’s the take away? Make ChatGPT second guess itself, until it arrives at a concrete answer. Lastly, always double check…
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Colima & Cloudflare Zero Trust on Apple Silicon
Install Colima via Homebrew: Add the Cloudflare Certificate Get inside the VM that Colima spawns: Download the Cloudflare Zero Trust certificate: In the terminal UI that shows up, press enter until the “More” prompt goes away, then ensure that cloudflare.crt is listed in that list. Once verified, trust all the certificates by giving in a…
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Remapping § to ~ + brightness keys from macOS Sonoma 14.3.1
A year ago, I wrote about bringing the UK keyboard layout closer to the US one on my M2 Air here, however, that suddenly stopped working. While attempting to run the command involved by hand, I realised that it had to be executed as root. Apple updated macOS such that those special keys couldn’t be…
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Mac M1/M2: Keyboard Brightness Keys + Remap § to ~
Remap the section key to the tilde key, and bring back the keyboard brightness keys to the MacBook M1/M2 machines.
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Cloudflare Zero Trust Gateway and Net Neutrality
Is Cloudflare ruining the entire concept of a distributed internet? Is it on a path to violate Net Neutrality? What can you do to prevent this?
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Getting the AWS CLI to accept Cloudflare WARP’s root certificate
Download, convert, and install the Cloudflare WARP root certificate into your local set of trusted root CAs, and then tell the AWS CLI to use it.
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Java 9’s HttpClient doesn’t allow custom HTTP/2 authorization headers
TL;DR Java 9 HttpClient does not allow custom Authorization header unless you resort to a hack. Read more about my blog post on CleverTap’s blog.
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LetsTuneup: A music chart with Arjit Singh in the lead
LetsTuneup has grown tremendously, and with it, we’ve introduced new features too. We identified that a few of our users couldn’t use the app to it’s full extent because they didn’t have music on their devices. We’ve solved that. Users can now pick their favourite artists, powered by a location aware scoring algorithm, which recommends…
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US toy giant threatens to sue Matchbox
TL;DR: A giant American toy company threatens to sue Matchbox. Having no resources at hand, Matchbox is forced to change it’s name to Tuneup. On the 14th of March, I received an email from Apple (via the giant toy company) with the following content: The developer of the reported application is using the registered Matchbox…
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FbStart accepts Matchbox into their Bootstrap track!
This was completely unexpected. Matchbox got accepted yesterday into FbStart’s Bootstrap track, and has received a lot of freebies (worth $40K USD) to kickstart the platform’s growth. Matchbox is born and bred in Mumbai, India. To be a part of the few apps in India to be accepted, means a lot. Thank you for…
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Why Matchbox, and how it connects people through music
There’s no doubt that music defines us. It influences our moods, for example, making us happy by releasing a chemical named dopamine. It can affect what we wear, what we eat, and perhaps even who we enjoy being together with. It affects our thought process too (it’s well known that ambient noise can improve productivity). In…
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Discover – my second iOS app
iTunes Genius is a great feature. However, it lacks music discovery outside your own music library. Sure, you can always do a Google search for similar tunes, but let’s face it – who has time to do this anymore? There weren’t any great music discovery apps on the App Store either. All of them either…
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0f > Float.MIN_VALUE = false!
Updates: Turns out that this is the expected behaviour from the java doc: A constant holding the smallest positive nonzero value of type float, 2-149. So now, how do I get the smallest negative value that a float can hold? Just came across the most weirdest thing ever in Java – 0f > Float.MIN_VALUE returns…
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A Usable Mac: Yosemite + Reduced Transparency + Lucida Grande
I updated to OS X 10.10 after a day it was released – only to be stunned by the really, really ugly looking UI. @francispereira dubs this new update as “Polio infected”. There’s transparency where it should never have been in the first place, and the font smoothing engine is gone haywire with the new…
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The official Uncyclopedia Android app
The folks at Uncyclopedia have made my Uncyclopedia Android app as their official app! Get it now!