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I had never used Swift before that and was able to use AI to whip up a fairly full-featured and complex application with a decent amount of code. I had to make some cross-cutting changes along the way as well that impacted quite a few files and things mostly worked fine with me guiding the AI. Mind you this was a year ago so I can only imagine how much better I would fare now with even better AI models. That whole month was spent not only on coding but on learning Swift enough to fix problems when AI started running into circles and then learning about Xcode profiler to optimize the application for speed and improving perf.

And lastly, this project specifically has been in the making for a good number of years now. So it makes sense that there are quite a few people out there using it.

From personal experience, we programmers/hackers sometimes like to make things more complicated than they need to be just for the fun of it (and learning experience too!).

https://practicalpython.yasoob.me/

When starting out with programming, most of the time you don't get to learn about the though process behind a project implementation . I recently did a project and decided to do a write-up detailing the whole thought process and how I went from point zero to a finished project. I think there is a shortage of similar articles so I am sharing it here in case it helps others :)

Give it a try and see how it goes?

I am looking forward to your feedback :)

I love using Jadx (https://github.com/skylot/jadx) to get a better understanding of the code in Java and then use APKTool to reverse engineer, decompile and recompile the app

If you are interested, Frida is also an amazing tool that makes certain type of reverse engineerings a lot easier compared to using APKTool. I wrote an article on that as well: https://yasoob.me/posts/reverse-engineering-nike-run-club-us...

Reverse engineering is a very exciting field and the moment you learn and figure out one concept you realize there is a lot more out there for you to figure out.

My personal blog. Would love to see someone else re imagine the homepage :)

We can definitely work something out! You should have gotten the books by now. Take a look at the book and if you would like to get a group discount I can definitely arrange that. Would love to have more kids get their hands on this. :)

I just released the Practical Python Projects book! (https://practicalpython.yasoob.me) You can get a free sample chapter here: https://practicalpython.yasoob.me/sample/chapter2.pdf.

I am happy to announce the first version as a release candidate. I have poured a lot of love into writing this book and would love to hear what you guys think. (A limited 100% off and discount coupons at the end)

This is not a pure beginner book. The book does assume some background Python knowledge. You need to know the basics like methods, functions, classes, and such. If I use something that is not typically covered in beginner Python books, I will explain it before I use it. There are no tests for these projects as they are really small and teach you how to glue different pieces together.

Some projects that we will be making

- A Twilio bot that keeps you updated with the latest match scores from the FIFA World Cup

- A Facebook Messenger bot the shares latest memes, jokes, and shower-thoughts scraped from Reddit

- An automated invoice generator and deploying it using Flask

- Making automated cinema-preshow by downloading and stitching together related movie trailers using moviepy

- Generating automated article summaries and overlaying them on top of images

- Understanding and decoding JPEG images using vanilla Python

- Creating a GUI application using PyQt for downloading online videos

- Implementing a TUI email client that allows reading emails in the terminal

The first 50 people can use the "hn-love" coupon (without the quotation marks) to get 15% off. I am also offering a 30-day no-questions-asked refund policy if you don't enjoy this book and don't learn anything new.

You can buy the book and see a detailed FAQ at https://practicalpython.yasoob.me. If you want to try before you buy, see the sample chapter at https://practicalpython.yasoob.me/sample/chapter2.pdf, or you can learn more my writing style by reading any of my recent articles over at https://yasoob.me.

Before writing this article I had no idea that JPEGs use Huffman tables. Now all those Huffman table lectures from college algos classes make sense. I was never told in that class that this is a major use case for Huffman tables. Maybe I would have shown more interest then if I knew this fact.

Why write another article on JPEG when there are already hundreds of articles on the internet? Well, normally when you read articles on JPEG, the author just gives you details about what the format looks like. You don’t implement any code to do the actual decompression and decoding. Even if you do write code, it is in C/C++ and not accessible to a wide group of people. I tried to change that through this article. I give you a guided tour of JPEG encoding/decoding process and show you how it can be implemented in Python3.

I mainly focus on decoding baseline encoded JPEG images.

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