Writing by Sameet Sapra — software engineer based in Chicago. Occasional posts on software, security, and lessons learned.https://www.sameetsapra.com/en-ushttps://www.sameetsapra.com/posts/i-got-hacked/https://www.sameetsapra.com/posts/i-got-hacked/In March 2023, my iCloud account was taken over, my phone was wiped, and my phone number was ported away in a single afternoon. The timeline of the attack, the week I spent rebuilding my digital life, and the changes I made so it can't happen the same way again.Sun, 19 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sameetsapra.com/posts/last-year-at-uiuc/https://www.sameetsapra.com/posts/last-year-at-uiuc/Reflections on finishing my master's in computer science at UIUC: why I stayed for a fifth year, what graduate classes were actually like, doing a master's without research, and why teaching as a TA was the best part of the year.Fri, 10 May 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sameetsapra.com/posts/implementing-program-status-scheduling-cask/https://www.sameetsapra.com/posts/implementing-program-status-scheduling-cask/As an intern at Cask, I implemented program status scheduling in CDAP — triggering programs based on the status of other programs — and the work it required to unify program state recording and add exactly-once internal notifications.Sun, 19 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sameetsapra.com/posts/soa-made-simple/https://www.sameetsapra.com/posts/soa-made-simple/How ACM at UIUC rebuilt its web infrastructure around a service-oriented architecture: Project Groot, the problems with the old monolith, and Arbor, the open-source API gateway we built to tie the microservices together.Thu, 30 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sameetsapra.com/posts/summer-at-nextcapital/https://www.sameetsapra.com/posts/summer-at-nextcapital/Notes from my first five months at UIUC — the depth of college classes, a full-stack job with the Cognitive Computation Group — and announcing my summer as a full-stack web developer at NextCapital in Chicago.Sat, 06 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sameetsapra.com/posts/react-and-flux/https://www.sameetsapra.com/posts/react-and-flux/Rebuilding a client dashboard at SimpleRelevance: replacing a hack-filled Backbone app with React for the views, Flux's unidirectional data flow, and Backbone collections as the stores — the 'Fluxbone' architecture.Thu, 09 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sameetsapra.com/posts/power-of-pow/https://www.sameetsapra.com/posts/power-of-pow/Pow is a zero-config Rack server for OS X that serves local Rails apps from a simple symlink — no starting servers by hand — and can share your localhost with collaborators for free.Thu, 31 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sameetsapra.com/posts/raspberrypi/https://www.sameetsapra.com/posts/raspberrypi/Turning a $30 Raspberry Pi into a home media center with Raspbmc: what you need, how to set it up, and streaming to every iOS device in the house — a DIY alternative to the Apple TV.Thu, 30 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.sameetsapra.com/posts/linux-server/https://www.sameetsapra.com/posts/linux-server/A beginner's introduction to running a Linux server at home: installing Ubuntu, reaching it over SSH, and using it to stream media and host web servers across your own network.Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT