engineering

An outline of how you can extract icons from Windows binaries and dump them into a local folder.

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.

There’s a good reason why I don’t want a cloud account to manage my networking infrastructure.

As a product manager, it’s kind of beaten into us from the early days that you should never listen to your customers for solutions. Yet, it’s common to see the opposite.

The new PowerToys are out (we’re at version 0.70.0) and with it comes a new version of Awake, the caffeinate tool that folks are used to on a Mac, brought to life on Windows.

If product management was ever perfected and applied evenly to every single company and industry, we’d likely swim in products that solve all our problems. Unfortunately, good product management is unevenly distributed and often takes on patterns and practices that are very far from optimal.

How to write API documentation that nobody can use, read, or use as reference.

Comes to no surprise if you read my blog or follow me on Twitter that the Halo Infinite API has been somewhat of a focus domain for me for the past year.

How to access hidden maps and game modes in retail Halo Infinite PC game builds with the build manifest.

If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you probably already know that I spend inordinate amounts of time on reverse engineering the Halo Infinite API.

Last year I was upgrading my computer’s power supply unit (PSU) in an effort to prepare for the GeForce RTX 3090. It so happened that I swapped PSU manufacturers as well while I was at it.

Getting to know a hidden data and insights pipeline.

Fiddling with Fiddler to enable hidden features in the podcaster dashboard.

Twitter just announced that they are re-launching their verification program, and now you can check whether you are eligible directly from your Twitter account settings. Neat!

Not too long ago, I was reading Charlie Kindel’s “You’re Thinking of Your Career Trajectory Wrong” and it reminded me of yet another trope that somehow is very commonplace, at least in the tech industry - your career is not a sprint, it’s a marathon.