Shaleen Jain

🔗 Why This Cult Classic Is Ready for a Modern Comeback Air Gear deserves a reboot not only because it was a visually distinctive cult anime with unfinished source material, but because its deepest idea still feels relevant today: the dream of breaking free

I’ve been using NextDNS for over a year now and it’s one of those services that once you set up, you wonder how you lived without it.

While attending a CI workshop in Goa, at a wonderful space under a huge Banyan Tree with sunlight shimmering through it’s leaves, after finishing a set of partner exercises we sat down in a circle to share our experiences and feelings.

These are the values I’ve built up for myself over the years and have served me well to this day.

View from a village near Dharmalaya Dharmalaya is 6-acre eco-campus located near a village in Bir, Himachal Pradesh.

Contact Improvisation (CI) is the most modern Somatics practice that I’ve come across.

There’s a point in our life when we all choose to stop being a child and grow up to be an adult.

Contemplating on what defines a products value and its worth?

The OSHO International Mediation Resort (OIMR) in Pune is a unique resort which offers not only the traditional relaxation services of a luxury resort, Basho Spa, swimming pool, sauna, Jacuzzi, etc.

The pain of not being able to share the joy and love you feel, with anyone, again feels like a death process.

Living and staying in a city, we often look for things to do on a weekend as a fun activity, going out or just entertainment to break out of from the work mindset and schedule.

Traveling, the act of going from place to place.

I was born in a middle class family in the centre of Delhi to parents who each had four and three siblings themselves.

If you’re just getting started with blockchain and web3 and looking to get your hands dirty by writing some code, you might be overwhelmed by the plethora of freely accessible resources around Ethereum, Solidity and blockchain in general.

🔗 Background and Motivation VPNs have become a requirement in many countries and for many professionals across countries to be able to do their work and maintain a level of safely and anonymity that’s increasing disparate with the modern internet.

🔗 Overview Estonia has a robust online and digital platform for availing all government services and accessing gov website by virtue of a digital ID card that is issued to every citizen.

With the increasing exhaustion of IPv4 addresses across the globe, various ISPs have resorted to implementing IPv4 Carrier Grade Network Address Translation (CG-NAT) as a solution to this problem.

Special thanks to Pramey Singh for feedback and review.

I’ve had a bunch of friends approach me recently on ways to invest in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

🔗 Introduction Domain Name System (DNS) is a protocol for naming servers on the internet that host websites.

Special thanks to Chakradhar Dhulipalla for feedback and review. 🔗 Background and motivation Long gone are the good ol’ days when Netflix used to be the only streaming service you subscribed to and sparingly shared with your friends and family providing a…

The year of 2019 has been a wild ride for the blockchain industry.

When I first created this blog I used Jekyll for my blogging needs mostly because that was the first time I had come across the concept of a Static Site Generator (SSG), generating html from markdown posts and Jekyll was and still is the most popular SSG…

DLNA renderers, mainly TV’s are DLNA certified devices that are able to play any media from the local network and is built upon the UPnP A/V Architecture technology.

The latest project that I have been working on lately is adding support for casting to DLNA/UPNP renderers in VLC.

With more and more online and offline services demanding Indian citizens to provide their Aadhar number for availing their services without any legal basis and necessity under the pretense of proving your identity, it does raise more than a few privacy co…

After I finished refactoring my android app to use a 3rd-party public API for the user data, I needed a way to quickly promote my application to users.

TADA68 with the aluminium case 🔗 Why TADA68?

For the past couple of weeks I have been slowly setting up my Vim and tmux config files to just the way I prefer, creating the perfect workflow for working on C/C++ and Rust projects that increases my productivity by not only not having to constantly swit…

Does anyone else also feel that we need lightning [network] desktop and mobile app wallets that can connect to your remote lnd server with gRPC (using rpc username and password) instead of every app loading and syncing their own chain on device?

Update: My pull requests implementing the techniques discussed here were merged into the zeit/next.js with-data-prefetch and with-apollo examples.

Update: My fuzz targets have been merged into the VLC mainline tree by commits 74e7bd2, b83e9f2.

I have been making some few specific improvement to demux fuzz target and also working on the decoder target side by side which isn’t done yet.

So, I have been working on writing a fuzz target for the demux API for the past two weeks and I have reached a point where it has a good code coverage and has already found some few shallow bugs.

Introduction to this blog post here 🔗 The Architecture I met with the VLC developers and my mentor at the VideoLabs office in Paris and after a few meetings and discussions we had a pretty good idea on how we could fuzz test libVLC and the VLC core most a…

Software bugs and vulnerabilities can be difficult to detect and slow to find even when actively searched for by developers and users who usually look for superficial functional and visual bugs.

When connecting to a server which has setup their SSL encryption with a self-signed certificate through a Java or an android app, you’ll get an SSLException since their certificate isn’t signed by a Certificate Authorities (CA) which is a 3rd party who is…