Writing an emulator has been on my developer “TODO list” for quite some time. Ever since playing an NES emulator for the first time, I’ve always been curious as to how they work. Check out the complete project: https://github.com/sean3z/chip8-emulator-rust Thankfully, there’s a ton of documentation these days that outline exactly…

I’ve always loved the Command and Conquer series. In many ways, I owe my career to Tiberian Sun as it was primarily responsible for getting me into development in the first place. For those unfamiliar, Tiberian Sun (and other C&C titles) were largely popular RTS games in the late ’90s…

Monthly limits seem to be on the rise as a means to mandate user sign up or subscription enrollment and is very commonly seen on News/Journal sites. However, the technical approach in which some sites implemented this wall — could really use some reevaluation. Steps to circumvent CourseHero: Open DevTools (right click > Inspect) …

“THE BEST MAN” part one! Batman and Catwoman decide it might be better to elope rather than go through some big, stodgy wedding ceremony, but no sooner do they put their marriage on the fast track than The Joker appears! …

Since my initial Node/Rust REST comparison, I’ve wanted to follow up with a comprehensive guide for getting simple CRUD operations up and running in Rust. While Rust has its complexities, coming from Node.js, one thing that’s kept me attracted to the language is its simplicity. …

Phishing scams aren’t anything new. If you’ve lived through the early days of the interwebs, you can probably recall a couple of run-ins with a phony duplicate of your favorite website. Most times sketchy emails with arbitrary, suspicious links can be spotted from a mile away. However, now that we’re…

Ever wonder exactly what network connections your favorite mobile app is making? In this small walkthrough, we’ll use mitmproxy to gain insight into how some of our favorite mobile apps work. Before getting started though, it’s worth mentioning that there are plenty of other tools that allow use to do…

This is a very simple example of signing and verifying JSON Web Tokens using Restify. If you’d like more information on either subject, check out the following links: http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/11/nodejs-in-flames.html https://jwt.io/introduction/ Getting Started First, we’ll need to install a few dependencies $ npm i --save restify restify-jwt-community jsonwebtoken restify will act as our…

With all the hype surrounding Rust, I’ve decided to take a closer look. So I spent about an hour or so looking over the Rust Docs and admittingly, it looks like a really fun language. However, I wanted to see how it’d stack up against my current favorite web layer…