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GitHub Large File Storage (git lfs) is basically paid only

Posted on December 6, 2024December 6, 2024 by James O'Claire

2 GB Maximum file size sounds great for GitHub LFS. When I saw that I thought, perfect, it’s small but it’ll do. Time to push! “Git LFS disabled for ddxv” Wait what? Git LFS has been disabled on your personal account ddxv because you’ve exceeded your data plan by at least 150%. Please purchase additional…

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How to get Geo Location Info for IP Addresses

Posted on December 4, 2024December 4, 2024 by James O'Claire

Just want to cover the recent steps I took in learning about how to get Geo Location information for OpenAttribution. The first step I took was to look into two existing open source analytics platforms that are alternatives to Google Analytics: Umami and Matomo. Umami I love using umami.is! It’s definitely the smaller of the…

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WIP: Sharing the Monetization channels for mobile apps

Posted on October 18, 2024April 15, 2025 by James O'Claire

Edit 2025: See the full list of the top monetization and ad networks on appgoblin.info/companies/ad-networks For a week or two I’ve been working on updating the appgoblin.info top ad networks and MMPs. Currently both are still up, which should change but I’ll give an overview of the process of changing and what might be next…

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Svelte 5 Data Table Comparisons

Posted on October 6, 2024April 9, 2025 by James O'Claire

Update 2025: While tanstack v8 still doesn’t support Svelte 5, it is quite easy to get working, I wrote up a how to here. While working on a new analytics dashboard I wanted to find a good table tool manage my table like data from the backend. My main goal is to have dynamic group…

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Is this a TikTok security vulnerablity for ad fraud?

Posted on February 5, 2024October 6, 2024 by James O'Claire

I de-compiled TikTok (“com.zhiliaoapp.musically” v33.3.3 from Feb 2nd, 2024) from ApkPure.net and noticed that the way it called AppsFlyer looked a bit different than what I expected and quickly led me to a GitHub issue which makes it seem like they are using an outdated way to collect install information from Google Play which may…

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Before You Agree: What data does TikTok collect before Terms of Service?

Posted on February 2, 2024October 6, 2024 by James O'Claire

Would you like to see what data is coming out of TikTok when you first open it up? Let’s get to it. Didn’t this used to be easy to do? As security for iPhones and Androids increased it continually made viewing the traffic leaving your own device more difficult. This is in stark contrast to…

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ClickHouse: Refreshing Take on Materialized Views

Posted on January 26, 2024October 6, 2024 by James O'Claire

Working on my Open Source MMP I have been seeing how much of it will work with ClickHouse. Unfortunately combining multiple streaming data sources in ClickHouse was proving difficult as data would semi randomly not join correctly. This led to a potential fix by using the very recent ClickHouse refreshable materialized views. These refreshable views…

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Stay up to date with the latest tech new with Hacker News Widget & App

Posted on September 29, 2023October 6, 2024 by James O'Claire

Hacker News is one of my go to sites to read the best takes on the latest tech news. Probably the reason I keep going back to it is the honest discussions and supportive community. But you probably already know this, since Hacker News is one of the most popular tech news sources out there….

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I built my own very simple strategy game

Posted on September 24, 2023October 6, 2024 by James O'Claire

It certainly isn’t anything amazing, but it was something that I really wanted to do for myself. After recently stepping away from my position at Bubbleye and taking a month or two to enjoy some camping, family time and generally enjoying life I finally got back to Taipei and realized I had a unique opportunity…

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How to see traffic from your Android Device

Posted on September 8, 2023April 15, 2025 by James O'Claire

GREEN: background processes for emulator and mitmproxy. RED: Running game (portrait but on side) with a pink banner ad at bottom. YELLOW: mitmproxy captured traffic with another example banner ad.

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