Simple Captcha Solver
In this post I’ll demonstrate how we can use OpenCV and Tesseract to apply general Optical Character Recognition (OCR) techniques to bypass a captcha programatically. This post is meant to be …
Tips for using Mongoose Schemas with Express (Mongo-Express-Node Stack)
Let’s consider how we can set up proper initialization, security, and normalization for a basic Mongoose Schema for a web application user. We’ll be using a real-world example instead of the silly trivial examples people usually use in these tutorials…
Configuring Nginx for Node.js Web Apps that Serve Both Static and Dynamic Content
If you are using nginx proxy_pass as the front-end for your node app, you should also be taking advantage of nginx’s ability to serve static content much more efficiently than …
Remove Branding from Embedded YouTube Video
According to the YouTube IFrame Player API, you can remove the branding from your embedded YouTube videos just by adding the modestbranding parameter to your iframe URL…
AWS Elastic Load Balancer Healthcheck with Multiple Domains/Proxies using Nginx
This post will explain how to configure Nginx to work with Amazon’s Elastic Load Balancer healthcheck, and also listen to multiple domains at the same time. With this setup you’ll …
Publishing Packages to NPM
I just published my first package – profanity-scanner – to npm, and it was really easy once I figured out the steps I had to take (npm doesn’t offer a …
Watermarking Videos from the Command Line with FFMPEG Filters
FFMPEG filters provide a powerful way to programmatically enhance or alter videos, and it’s fairly simple to add a watermark to a video using the overlay filter. The easiest way to install …
Facial Detection in Twitter Profile Pictures
Lately I’ve been working on some automated Twitter accounts that provide various services to their followers. For one of them I needed a way to decipher between accounts that belong …
jQuery Mobile Swipe Listview
Swipe sideways on a listview element to reveal additional buttons (iOS style) GitHub Demo (Mobile Only)
Custom Icons for Android App using PhoneGap (CLI)
This process took me way longer than it should have to figure out. It turns out I needed to manually put the icons in the ./platforms/android/res/drawable* folders, clean the project to clear …