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Elephantshark, a tool to monitor Postgres network traffic

Elephantshark helps you monitor, understand and troubleshoot Postgres network traffic: that’s Postgres servers, clients, drivers and ORMs talking to Postgres servers, proxies and poolers. Elephantshark sits between the two parties in a Postgres-protocol exchange, forwarding messages in both directions while parsing and logging them. It is an open-source Ruby script published by Neon and works with any and all Postgres-protocol network traffic. That includes, but isn’t limited to, traffic to and

Reverse-Engineering the LCD Display Interface of the Nest 2nd Gen Thermostat

In which I pried open the glass LCD lens at the front of my Nest 2nd Gen thermostat and found the LCD display module, packaged with a flexible ribbon cable and a round pixel array, and took a months-long journey of reverse engineering, detective work, and problem-solving that taught me more about display interfaces than any tutorial ever could have. Discovery: Finding the Details of the Display It all started with a disassembled Nest thermostat sitting on my workbench. Following the teardown g

Under the Hood of AFD.sys Part 1: Investigating Undocumented Interfaces

A quick look at how I used WinDbg and NtCreateFile to craft a raw TCP socket via AFD.sys on Windows 11, completely skipping Winsock. Under the Hood of AFD.sys Part 1: Investigating Undocumented Interfaces Introduction This is the first post in a series about my deep-dive into the AFD.sys driver on Windows 11. The idea is that both this write-up and the library that comes out of it will be a one-stop doc set - and a launchpad - for poking at other drivers that don’t ship with an official spec.

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