Category Archives: Saturday MP Show

SaturdayMP Show 104: picoCTF (Small Trouble & Droids 4)

In this episode I (Chris), sorry no Omar, attempt some picoCTF (now CyLab) challenges. I picked the challenges randomly and ended up with a RSA (Small Trouble) and reverse engineering APK binary (Droids 4). Used the clanker (coding agent) to … Continue reading

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SaturdayMP Show 103: HTTP Server in C (Part 1 – Listen is Working)

In this episode we start writing a custom HTTP Server in C because Omar wanted to learn more about HTTP, servers, and low-level networking. We get a simple app that listens on a port and writes out to the command … Continue reading

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SaturdayMP Show 102: PostCast (Part 15 – Slack Channel Selection)

In this episode Omar and I update PostCast so you can set the Slack channel instead of it being hardcoded. Progress at its finest. We try out Figma for some design ideas, it goes OK. Then we try the design … Continue reading

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SaturdayMP Show 100: PostCast Part 15 (LinkedIn Company Setup)

Our 100th episode! Not the episode we wanted as we forgot we needed to register with @linkedin to post messages as a company and then struggle to figure out how to handle multiple dialog forms in Fyne. That said, a … Continue reading

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SaturdayMP Show 99: Custom Ping Client – Part 2

In this live episode Omar and myself get the ping application working. Not the best written C code, but it works, after I figured out we need to run the application as root. Ping – Manually create and send ICMP/IP … Continue reading

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SaturdayMP Show #98: Custom Ping Client

In this live episode Omar and myself try to write a low-level C app that does a network ping. Omar really wanted the app to be in C, so you get to watch me struggle to remember C syntax and … Continue reading

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SaturdayMP Show #97: PostCast Part 14 (Slack Integration Working)

Happy Star Wars Day! In this live episode Omar and myself get the Slack integration working. At least a ruff draft of it that still needs some clean-up. We also discuss the lower level networking details like ports and sockets. … Continue reading

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SaturdayMP Show 96: PostCast Part 13 (Save Slack Token Using TDD)

In this live episode Omar and myself write and unit test the code for saving the Slack token to the keyring. We abandon using Testify mocks and instead add an in-memory setting for our credential manager. We also have a … Continue reading

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SaturdayMP Show 95: Passkeys Primer w/ Aaron Yong

In this episode Aaron Yong gives an overview of Passkeys and why you should use them. He also answers my naive questions about how they work. Aaron runs Saikyo Softworks, a digital consultancy specializing in practical solutions for an ever-changing … Continue reading

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SaturdayMP Show #94: Debugging Git HTTP 400 curl 22 Error

In our first ever completely live episode, Omar and myself debug a GitHub push error Omar was experiencing. It was a new error for both of us and took a bit to figure out. The error was: error: RPC failed; … Continue reading

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