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It’s been a long time since I posted anything here. Haven’t been upto a lot outside my work when it comes to tech/ programming and it’s that existential time of the year when you feel like you’ve got to do something with your life. A few notable things that happened in the past one year: » Successfully got a full-time job as a Software Engineer With my never-ending struggles with DSA, feels pretty lucky to be where I am right now....

October 31, 2022 · 2 min · Sarthak Khattar

Zerodium: PHP Git Software Supply Chain Attack

So I started a new part-time position this week and today was my first day - remote, ofcourse. I’m supposed to be a Malware Analyst - analyzing malwares and creating reports. It’s a new role for me since most of my experience has been in development, but I have always wanted to give core Security roles a try so I’m looking forward to this. But anyways, point being - while researching today, I came across this hack that occurred in March earlier this year:...

October 18, 2021 · 3 min · Sarthak Khattar

Python packages, modules and import statements

A few weeks back, I interviewed for Deepsource as a Python Developer and they asked me this problem that piqued my interest a little. I felt like it was simple problem - one which seemed to have an obvious solution, yet something that might frustrate a lot of people just starting out with Python. Let’s go over the problem first. You can follow along by cloning the repo from here....

October 11, 2021 · 3 min · Sarthak Khattar

Introduction

Hey! I’m starting this blog to share whatever I learn, maybe teach a few things myself and just talk about life. As of now, I’m a 21 (almost 22) year old 4th year Electronics student from India. I like to code (mostly in Python), play games and do other nerd stuff. Sounds interesting? Lookout for a new post (hopefully) every week.

October 10, 2021 · 1 min · Sarthak Khattar