Fabian Iwand mootari

Deobfuscating / Unminifying Obfuscated Web App / JavaScript Code

Some notes and tools for reverse engineering / deobfuscating / unminifying obfuscated web app code.

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Other great resources

Royce Williams list sorted by vendors responses Royce List
Very detailed list NCSC-NL
The list maintained by U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency: CISA List

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

WARNING: Article moved to separate repo to allow users contributions: https://github.com/raysan5/custom_game_engines

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like [Unreal](https:

Concise Unicode character names in JavaScript

J. S. Choi, 2022

⚠️ Warning: This article is not finished. The code will not yet run without errors.

All programmers must manipulate text; JavaScript programmers are no exception. Text manipulation often refers to specific characters, usually by their code points in hexadecimal – or by embedding the characters directly in source code.

Exposed headers

Service	SSL	status	Response Type	Allowed methods	Allowed headers

Strictly Frameworks

Mobiledoc - github.com/bustle/mobiledoc-kit - framework to build editors with a standardized JSON structure
ShareDB - github.com/share/sharedb - framework to sync any JSON document using operational transforms, add real-time collaborative editing to anything else
Bangle.dev - github.com/bangle-io/bangle.dev - toolkit built for building editors, based on prosemirror

Abstracted Editors

These use separate document structures instead of HTML, some are more modular libraries than full editors

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

	// Copyright (c) 2023 Tomasz Stachowiak
	//
	// This contribution is dual licensed under EITHER OF
	//
	// Apache License, Version 2.0, (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
	// MIT license (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
	//
	// at your option.

	#include "/inc/frame_constants.hlsl"

	{
	"ignition": {
	"version": "2.0.0",
	"config": {}
	},
	"storage": {
	},
	"systemd": {},
	"networkd": {},
	"passwd": {