JonLuca's Blog

Noticing when an app has servers in different regions

I was talking to a friend of mine about native apps and how some apps not built using UIKit/SwiftUI just feel laggier, and it got me thinking about…

Jun 26, 2023 • 

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May 2023

Exploring how Magic Link works

Magic Link is a web3 wallet-as-a-service.

May 31, 2023 • 

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April 2023

Semantic search in iMessage, iMessage Wrapped, and AI conversations

TLDR - You can download Mimessage on GitHub

Apr 14, 2023 • 

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May 2022

Getting a vanity phone number with 4 repeating digits

I find that it’s pretty useful to have access to multiple phone numbers.

May 28, 2022 • 

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Reversing Resy’s API to create a javascript client

A couple months ago I made a post about building an OpenTable bot, which lets me monitor and will automatically book reservations that are hard to get…

May 9, 2022 • 

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February 2022

Web3, Free Candy, and exploits galore

On 1/4/22, nearly 4000 Solana NFT projects were drained of their funds due to a reinitialization bug present in the Candy Machine v1 smart contract on…

Feb 26, 2022 • 

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January 2022

Analyzing Seated’s restaurants by reversing their API

Last month I wrote about writing a bot to automatically get reservations for OpenTable. In that same vein, Seated is an app that offers a certain…

Jan 2, 2022 • 

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December 2021

Building an OpenTable bot

New York City has some of the best restaurants in the world, with some of the most competitive reservations to match.

Dec 3, 2021 • 

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August 2021

Snapshotting memory to scrape encrypted network requests

Most web reverse engineering focuses on two attack surfaces - either DOM scraping through something like puppeteer or beatifulsoup, or on MITM attacks…

Aug 8, 2021 • 

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July 2021

JavaScript gotchas

Here are some interesting JavaScript facts that I’ve encountered over the last few years.

Jul 18, 2021 • 

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June 2021

Writing fast async HTTP requests in Python

I do a lot of web scraping in my spare time, and have been chasing down different formats and code snippets to make a large amount of network requests…

Jun 15, 2021 • 

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May 2021