Programming

Redefine the way you work with spreadsheets. — The increasing number of plug-ins has illuminated the power of ChatGPT, or other LLMs. These plug-ins enable integration of the OpenAI API with a variety of tools, thereby facilitating the use of models that OpenAI offers, including GPT-3.5 and GPT-4. One of the tools that can be enhanced with the…

Introduction: As a red team operator, it is crucial to continually explore advanced techniques to effectively simulate real-world threats during authorized penetration tests. Backdooring Windows systems provides a powerful avenue for unauthorized access and control. In this reference manual, we will explore five advanced ways to backdoor a Windows system, equipping…

The Landscape Creating web apps entirely in Python is an enticing idea. Setting up a web app requires both frontend and backend skills such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript (and the numerous frameworks) together with Python or some other server-side language on the backend. It’s a lot of work! If instead everything could…

The Enigma Machine is a true icon in the world of cryptography, captivating generations of mathematicians and computer scientists. Developed by the Germans during World War II, even the experts considered this machine impregnable until the ingenious efforts of Alan Turing and his team at Bletchley Park. …

In Go, the context package provides a powerful mechanism for managing the lifecycle of operations and propagating cancellation signals across goroutines. It allows you to set deadlines, timeouts, and cancelation signals, helping you control the execution of your code and handle resource cleanup gracefully. …

Write your software tests in a human-readable manner from a user’s perspective. Introduction Within software development, there are various automated options to test your software so that you can ensure that the functionalities keep working without having to manually retest everything. Automated tests come in many forms. Some of them include: …

iOS Capture to Obsidian — In the previous article, I have shown my Periodic Notes, journaling, and habits tracker workflows. My Obsidian Setup — Daily Notes, Journaling, and Habits Tracker In the previous article I showed up the theme I’m using and how I organize my PKM notes and create them.medium.com This article will show how I capture notes and media from iOS devices. Tana has launched a pretty cool app called Tana Capture, which allows you to write notes, scan text, and append media to…

Shaping How AI Thinks — In the realm of human cognition, we often refer to two distinct systems of thinking: “System 1”, which is fast, instinctive, and emotional, and “System 2”, which is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. These two systems work in tandem to help us navigate the complexities of our world. Large…

There are so many ways you can build them… — Motivation Today, this is what I am selling: awesome_pipeline.fit(X, y) awesome_pipeline may look just like another variable, but here is what it does to poor X and y under the hood: Automatically isolates numerical and categorical features of X. Imputes missing values in numeric features. Log-transforms skewed features while normalizing the…