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The SEO Work Nobody Does So I Automated It
An Instagram post promised SEO magic through AI-generated articles. Instead of automating content, I automated everything else with 11 scripts.
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ELI5: How Do People Figure Out What Apps Are Doing?
You download a game. You tap buttons. Things happen. But what's actually going on behind the scenes — and how do people peek behind the curtain?
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Reverse Engineering a Mobile Game: Part 5 — Teaching a Bot to Play
The final piece: an automation bot that logs in and completes daily tasks in 90 seconds. The hardest part wasn't sending messages — it was figuring out what...
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Reverse Engineering a Mobile Game: Part 4 — Building Our Own Controller
With the binary protocol cracked, I built a Python client that authenticates, connects, and speaks the game's language.
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Reverse Engineering a Mobile Game: Part 3 — Learning to Speak Binary
The game speaks a custom binary language over WebSocket. The hardest part wasn't finding the protocol — it was getting one field type wrong by 4 bytes.
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Reverse Engineering a Mobile Game: Part 2 — Eavesdropping on the Conversation
Your phone and the game server have a constant conversation. With the right tools, you can listen in.