Independent Science + Technology

Author: Mai Chi Bao

I’ll be honest with you: I didn’t wake up one morning thinking “Let me reverse-engineer TikTok today.” It started with something much simpler: “I just want to upload videos to TikTok programmatically… why is this so damn hard?”

Post date November 17, 2025
Post author By Mai Chi Bao
Post categories In api, mrzaizai2k, security, webdev

I’ll be honest with you: I didn’t wake up one morning thinking “Let me reverse-engineer TikTok today.” It started with something much simpler: “I just want to upload videos to TikTok programmatically… why is this so damn hard?”

Post date November 17, 2025
Post author By Mai Chi Bao
Post categories In api, mrzaizai2k, security, webdev

Breaking Down API Defenses: UA – Cookies – Signatures Browser 🤖

Post date November 17, 2025
Post author By Mai Chi Bao
Post categories In api, mrzaizai2k, security, webdev

Breaking Down API Defenses: UA – Cookies – Signatures Browser 🤖

Post date November 17, 2025
Post author By Mai Chi Bao
Post categories In api, mrzaizai2k, security, webdev

TIL: CORS, IPs, and the Day My Demo Crashed 🔒

Post date September 29, 2025
Post author By Mai Chi Bao
Post categories In devops, mrzaizai2k, vscode, webdev

No subscriptions, no paywalls — just a straightforward QR generator that works right in your browser 🚀.

Post date September 16, 2025
Post author By Mai Chi Bao
Post categories In css, html, mrzaizai2k, Tooling

TIL: Building a Simple Typing Practice Tool

Post date September 8, 2025
Post author By Mai Chi Bao
Post categories In css, html, mrzaizai2k, Tooling

🚀 Elasticsearch vs. MongoDB: RAM, Speed & Search Accuracy Tested!

Post date March 7, 2025
Post author By Mai Chi Bao
Post categories In elasticsearch, mongodb, mrzaizai2k, python

TIL: 3️⃣ ways I use Large Language Models to increase learning efficiency

Post date February 21, 2025
Post author By Mai Chi Bao
Post categories In career, mrzaizai2k, python, Tooling

📈 80/20 Principles

Post date February 14, 2025
Post author By Mai Chi Bao
Post categories In career, mrzaizai2k, python, Tooling

Practical Approaches to Key Information Extraction (Part 2)

Post date January 16, 2025
Post author By Mai Chi Bao
Post categories In computervision, mrzaizai2k, ocr, python

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