This post is the conceptual core of everything behind my OSS India 2026 talk on the Alphion ASEE-1447 router. Everything else I did — the cross-compiled gdbserver, the live debugging, the binary pa...
When you’re reverse engineering an embedded device, sooner or later you want to attach a debugger to something running live on the hardware. The problem: your laptop is x86-64, the router is MIPS, ...
Some physics lessons arrive in a classroom. Others arrive as a breeze on your shoulder. Recently, during a trip to Singapore, I had the opportunity to ride the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT). It is an i...
The Mercator projection — the map most of us grew up with in school and on almost every atlas — becomes deeply confusing the moment you learn how it was made. For most of my childhood I assumed Gre...
Pointers can be quite challenging at times for anyone starting out in C programming. But once you master it, there’s quite a lot you can do with them and quite a lot go wrong. Even after years of...
Smartphones have come a long way in the last decade. They only used to do one thing back in the day — Phonecalls. Now, they do a lot more than just allow you to speak to someone. It is a mini-lab...
Ever wonder if your router is gigabit-capable or not? There is a quick and easy way to find out. If you flip over your router and check its LAN ports, you’ll see that there are metallic contacts in...
A while ago, while browsing through the Linux 5.13 source, I came across several swear words. Out of curiosity, I wanted to see if any more of these words existed. So, using the lovely little gre...