Making Valorant Playable on My Wifi
Experimenting with using an old router as a big antenna to boost my WiFi signal.
Hemant Pandey
phemantics
I study and build computer systems. This is where I write about experiments, engineering ideas, and things that changed how I think.
Writings
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Learning Lenses
On doing something tangentially related you are familiar with to learn a new concept.
2025
Shy Code
An antipattern I see often in intertwined code
The Exam I Might Fail (Again)
Giving this test 8 years after the first attempt, at a different place in life
Learning about format string vulnerabilities
Sometime last year, I took part in the company hackathon and came across some nice questions which were fun to solve. This post is about learning how to exploit unsafe uses of printf in C code.