↓Skip to main content

Hi, I'm Den 👋

Sharing adventures in computers, reverse engineering, machine learning, and occasionally - my camera.
Den and his wife, with the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco in the background.

I am an engineer and product manager. I help build software that makes other software more secure, record a podcast where I interview notable folks about their career lessons, build a utility to keep your Windows machine awake, maintain a list of resources to help product managers grow, and tinker with USB data from a popular button box. In the past I’ve reverse engineered and documented the Halo Infinite REST API.

You can find me on GitHub, LinkedIn, YouTube, Stack Overflow, and Hacker News.

Recent

Converting HEX Color To SolidColorBrush In WinUI 3

·340 words
As I was building OpenSpartan Workshop for Windows I needed the ability to convert a hexadecimal HTML color code to a SolidColorBrush object. Unlike with previous UI frameworks, WinUI 3 (which is what I use) doesn’t have a built-in construct for this kind of conversion. Naturally, I had to improvise.

SeaFair 2024 - Air Show Photos

·848 words
This past weekend most of the Greater Seattle got to experience the thunder of US Navy Blue Angels jets buzzing the trees around the city as part of Seafair. I decided to take the time and actually venture out around the city to take some good photos this year.

The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole

·1592 words
So, check this little idea that I have - I want to browse the internet without all sorts of unscrupulous actors collecting every little bit of metadata on me and my family they can possibly get their hands on.

PowerToys Awake Now Has Icons And Helpful Tooltips

·869 words
Way overdue, but with the release of Microsoft PowerToys 0.83.0, my very own PowerToys Awake comes in tow with a bunch of improvements that I wanted to do for a long time. This release is codenamed DAISY023, in reference to, of course, Daisy-023.

Convert Gamertag To XUID

·2723 words
As part of the work on OpenSpartan Workshop I needed the capability to convert a Xbox gamertag into its immutable identifier - the Xbox user ID, also commonly known as the XUID. My plan was to add the option for someone to find all the matches where they played with a specific player.