Harshil Lodhi

How to securely upload & serve images/files in Azure ?

Azure storage allows you to store files and serve the files directly without proxying it through your website's server. While you may want to proxy the upload through your server, to validate file or to store some metadata of the file in your database,

life

What did I learn at Microsoft in the past 2 years ?

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying. - Isaac AsimovI strongly believe in this quote by the Isaac Asimov. So much that I have made it a habit to constantly nudge myself for any learnings that I could take out

Weekend musings: How I hacked my local ISP and some general advice/learnings on keeping yourself safe on the Internet.

TL;DR : Time Based Blind SQL Injection with some common sense. If you don't want to read all this technical jargon just scroll down to the end for some important advice/learnings. Last week I visited my hometown Nagpur for an extended weekend. I

2016: A year in review.

2016 is now behind us. The world has changed a lot in 2016 and it will be remembered for various things. Donald Trump got elected as a President nominee and will be the President of United States very soon. Britain has exited from the

systems

Summary: Linux Scheduler: A decade of wasted cores - Part 1 - What is NUMA ?

I have been reading Hacker News (HN) for the past 3 years and I love it for its amazing content and discussions. Last month, a research paper with title 'The Linux Scheduler: a Decade of Wasted Cores' was trending on the front page of

productivity

Why you should always question your intuition?

Here is a puzzle. Don't try to put your mind to solve this puzzle, just listen to your intution. A bat and ball costs $1.10. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball costs? Yes I know the

books

How I started reading books regularly.

If you have landed on this page, then I believe you already understand the importance of reading in one's life. If not, you can bing google that and then make yourself believe that reading is important. ☺️ I was never fond of reading books during

vpn

HTTP Proxy and VPN musings at IIT Guwahati.

Necessity is the mother of invention I spent 4 years of my life playing with HTTP Proxies and VPNs. My college, IIT Guwahati had a very restricted system for accessing

productivity

A simple way to be more productive and peaceful.

Productivity, a topic on which thousands of articles and hundreds of books have been written in the past. Each one of us wants to be more productive in our work and daily life. People keep reading books and blogs on how they can be

softether

SoftEther VPN Ubuntu/Linux Client Configuration behind HTTP Proxy.

SoftEther VPN is one of the alternatives of OpenVPN. The SoftEther Project is maintained by University of Tsukuba. Why not OpenVPN? I started using SoftEther VPN because of the poor performance of OpenVPN over TCP especially when you are behind a http proxy. The

loopback

Loopback - How to create a custom time based access token for a user?

Its been only two days that I have started writing technical blog posts on Loopback.io and today I got a mail from a person in Finland, Helsinki who found my last blog post on "Loopback.io - How to get the current

loopback

Loopback.io - How to get the current access token / user id in a remote method ?

Strongloop's Loopback framework is one of the best opinionated framework out there for API developement. I have been using it extensively in my projects. The only problem with Loopback is that it lacks examples of some very common tasks and one has to dig

My Quotes Collection

This post is a collection of the various Quotes that I have collected over years from various sources. I find them motivating and these quotes reminds of the good time

A new beginning.

Time changes and sometimes its better to make a new start rather than sticking with the old choices. So, I have moved my dormant blog to Ghost from Wordpress in