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    Tinder Privacy Issues

    Few months ago I heard about a dating application called Tinder. The idea of the app is pretty straight forward and actually cool. As the idea of the app is nice and it can actually work, privacy is still an important thing.

  • Discipline

    Doing sports for the last 1.5 years has showed me how being disciplined literally ends up with great results. @jockowillink nails it best. This takes me 15 years back, when I first started to code.

  • Work In Progress 🚧

    WIP helped me become more efficient. I joined WIP on Oct 14th 2017 and my productivity significantly increased. In 2016 I decided to go back to the office life and found a job as a Senior Backend Software Engineer at ResearchGate.

  • Golang "The system cannot find the path specified" (on Windows)

    In the last few weeks I have been working on a small bot/crawler project. Basically, I had to communicate with Wikimedia’s API to get a large portion of information and images. One of my client’s requirements was to ensure that the filename contains information about the downloaded image.

  • It Is All About Being A Doer

    A year and a half ago I have decided to go on a long trip. I ended up in Berlin after a very interesting job hunting. During that time, I kept thinking what should I do next and I knew that the best thing for me is to become a doer.

  • Job Hunting, Business and Deployment System #1

    After living in Mexico, traveling in the United States of America and freelancing for CNature remotely, I decided to look for a new challenge. I had a lot of different interviews and I want to focus on 2 things: Business and Deployment System.

  • How To Write A Privacy Oriented API When Using SSO

    I have been noticing that many applications tend to skip some important points while writing their APIs. In this post I will try to discuss some of those points. Usually, when we write APIs, we use a common data structure in order to be able to communicate as easy as possible with different services.

  • Hinge Privacy Issues

    Hinge is another dating app same as Tinder, Match, OkCupid, JSwipe and more. The nice thing about Hinge is that its trying to match between relevant people. After exposing privacy issues with the Tinder app, I decided to check each and every application that asks for personal information.

  • Couchsurfing Privacy Issues

    Couchsurfing is one of the best products I have used in the last couple of years. It helped me to meet many people from all over the world. Privacy is an important thing, and Couchsurfing allows people to see their users’ private information such as Facebook profile URLs and Emergency Contact Details.

  • Maps VS Slices VS Arrays

    While working on the Gomobiledetect package I have been facing some interesting performance issues such as caching the compiled regex rules. Today I want to talk about the performance improvement I have faced while working on gomobiledetect.

  • Getpocket API for Go

    I was working with Getpocket API while coding with Go so I have decided to write a Go Getpocket SDK. The source code is available at Github.

  • Introducing Go mobile detect package

    Few months ago I have started to look into Go and decided to give it a try. As part of my learning curve I have decided to contribute and help others with things there are missing or not completely finished.

  • Facebook API "CurlException: 6: name lookup timed out thrown in Facebook

    I am working on my Facebook app at https://www.staytunedapp.com. I had an issue with Facebook in the last few days while seeing an exception on my development server: CurlException: 6: name lookup timed out.

  • ICQ On-Site Beta

    So we finally finished ICQ On-Site beta project. As you may see, its already implemented and you may use it on this site. This version includes your ICQ friends and FB friends if your account is attached.

  • PHP Tic-Tac-Toe MinMax algorithm implementation

    Today I want to share my Tic-Tac-Toe game. A week ago I got a nice assignment: create Tic-Tac-Toe game with PHP where the player won’t be able to win the game using MinMax algorithm.

  • Using Iframes and Cross Domain Scripting

    So I didn’t write for a long time, and its about time to do that. Today I will share my thoughts about iframes and cross domain scripting. Iframe is an old HTML element which lets you load another page inside your current page.

  • Facebook: Select all of your friend in 1 time

    I wrote a nice script to select all of your Facebook friends in one time. As my previous post, my wish is that Facebook will protect us as users and fight SPAM and keep our privacy settings.

  • Chrome Extension: Facebook photo sharing bypass privacy preference (FBPhotos)

    Today I will publish my first Google Chrome extension: FBPhotos. FBPhotos will give you the ability to share Facebook photos between friends while they will be able to see the photos and bypass the user’s privacy preference.

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