Personal blog about web dev, my IRL stuff, tutorials, life stories, shitpost. by hloth aka Viktor Shchelochkov 😘https://blog.hloth.dev/https://blog.hloth.dev/taken-on-grindr-hack/https://blog.hloth.dev/taken-on-grindr-hack/An elementary thing to fake turned into a 7-hour challenge of Android emulator rooting, Xposed fork navigation, virtual camera resolutions, color profiles, and MITM attacksWed, 18 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMTtaken-on-grindr-hacktutorialViktor Shchelochkov / Full Stack Developer <[email protected]> (https://hloth.dev/)https://blog.hloth.dev/breaking-up-breaking-down/https://blog.hloth.dev/breaking-up-breaking-down/Breaking news breaking me, breaking free. Mistakes were made but to never be repeated again.Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:00:00 GMTbreaking-up-breaking-downlife_storyViktor Shchelochkov / Full Stack Developer <[email protected]> (https://hloth.dev/)https://blog.hloth.dev/one-year-with-svelte/https://blog.hloth.dev/one-year-with-svelte/One year ago I tried Svelte and never went back to React. Svelte is scarily addictive as now I won't even consider other frameworks. It's almost too good to be real.Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:36:46 GMTone-year-with-sveltereviewViktor Shchelochkov / Full Stack Developer <[email protected]> (https://hloth.dev/)https://blog.hloth.dev/i-am-20/https://blog.hloth.dev/i-am-20/Celebrating my second jubilee with immigrating to Spain as a refugee. New website, new philosophy, new career opportunities and everything else that happened since my last anniversary.Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:22:56 GMTi-am-20life_storyViktor Shchelochkov / Full Stack Developer <[email protected]> (https://hloth.dev/)https://blog.hloth.dev/optimizing-website-for-svg-blocking-users/https://blog.hloth.dev/optimizing-website-for-svg-blocking-users/A solution I found to display SVG icons for Tor browser users with a custom Vite pluginMon, 29 Sep 2025 22:20:37 GMToptimizing-website-for-svg-blocking-userstutorialViktor Shchelochkov / Full Stack Developer <[email protected]> (https://hloth.dev/)https://blog.hloth.dev/migrating-to-forgejo/https://blog.hloth.dev/migrating-to-forgejo/I migrated 200+ repositories from GitHub to Forgejo along with their issues, pull requests, wikis, releases and even actions workflows. It was an insane journey and learned a lot of new things about Docker. I wish I didn't but I'm glad it's over.Wed, 17 Sep 2025 22:21:57 GMTmigrating-to-forgejoannouncementViktor Shchelochkov / Full Stack Developer <[email protected]> (https://hloth.dev/)https://blog.hloth.dev/tahoe-dynamic-video-wallpapers/https://blog.hloth.dev/tahoe-dynamic-video-wallpapers/How to automatically cycle through new macOS 26 Tahoe Day, Tahoe Morning, Tahoe Evening and Tahoe Night video wallpapers for free based on current time of the day using Aerial appWed, 17 Sep 2025 17:00:55 GMTtahoe-dynamic-video-wallpaperstutorialViktor Shchelochkov / Full Stack Developer <[email protected]> (https://hloth.dev/)https://blog.hloth.dev/nbxplorer-custom-signet/https://blog.hloth.dev/nbxplorer-custom-signet/This tutorial will guide you on how to add support for your custom Bitcoin signet into BTCPay Server which requires NBXplorer and NBitcoin to support it and solves the infamous problem of "The node is not in a connected state" error.Tue, 27 May 2025 02:01:13 GMTnbxplorer-custom-signettutorialViktor Shchelochkov / Full Stack Developer <[email protected]> (https://hloth.dev/)https://blog.hloth.dev/extract-apple-maps-poi/https://blog.hloth.dev/extract-apple-maps-poi/If you've used Apple Maps apps you know they have the best point-of-interest icons, such as pizza slice icon for restaurant or book icon for library. In this post I'll explain how to extract these and use for your needs.Sat, 05 Apr 2025 23:05:43 GMTextract-apple-maps-poitutorialViktor Shchelochkov / Full Stack Developer <[email protected]> (https://hloth.dev/)https://blog.hloth.dev/now-in-lokinet-ru/https://blog.hloth.dev/now-in-lokinet-ru/Сегодня я опубликовал в Lokinet все свои личные веб-сайты под доменом hloth.dev. Подключитесь, замените .dev на .loki и вы зайдете на зеркало веб-сайта из клирнета! Прочитайте эту статью в Lokinet: http://blog.hloth.loki/now-in-lokinetSat, 08 Mar 2025 19:48:10 GMTnow-in-lokinet-ruannouncementViktor Shchelochkov / Full Stack Developer <[email protected]> (https://hloth.dev/)https://blog.hloth.dev/now-in-lokinet/https://blog.hloth.dev/now-in-lokinet/Today I made all my personal websites under hloth.dev domain available in Lokinet. Just connect, replace .dev with .loki and you'll be presented with a mirror of a clearnet website! Here is this article in Lokinet: http://blog.hloth.loki/now-in-lokinetSat, 08 Mar 2025 19:30:27 GMTnow-in-lokinetannouncementViktor Shchelochkov / Full Stack Developer <[email protected]> (https://hloth.dev/)https://blog.hloth.dev/moreofme/https://blog.hloth.dev/moreofme/For the past 4 months I've been working on moreof.me — a single place for all your connections, thoughts and interests. In this article I'm describing idea of the project and give insights on how it was madeMon, 17 Feb 2025 08:51:27 GMTmoreofmeprojectViktor Shchelochkov / Full Stack Developer <[email protected]> (https://hloth.dev/)https://blog.hloth.dev/adon-dubbing/https://blog.hloth.dev/adon-dubbing/Как я 2 года я работал с профессиональными актерами дубляжа, учился на слух определять примерные параметры реверба, дизассемблил снепшоты v8 и осуществил свою мечту сделать так, чтобы персонажи моей любимой игры заговорили на русском языке.Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:21:31 GMTadon-dubbingprojectViktor Shchelochkov / Full Stack Developer <[email protected]> (https://hloth.dev/)https://blog.hloth.dev/bunsogs-release/https://blog.hloth.dev/bunsogs-release/Criticizing PySogs and announcing modern alternative for Session Open Group Servers. Here is how I created a much faster, smaller, easier to install, configure and manage implementation of SOGS with antispam, anticsam plugins called Bunsogs.Tue, 27 Aug 2024 22:15:02 GMTbunsogs-releaseprojectViktor Shchelochkov / Full Stack Developer <[email protected]> (https://hloth.dev/)https://blog.hloth.dev/zp-midpass-ru-bruteforce/https://blog.hloth.dev/zp-midpass-ru-bruteforce/Как я потерял и брутфорсил кодовое слово на сайте загранпаспортов МИДа РФ и автоматизировал нажатие кнопки "подтвердить заявку" на сайте с очередью в 3500 человекWed, 10 Jul 2024 02:11:26 GMTzp-midpass-ru-bruteforcelife_storyViktor Shchelochkov / Full Stack Developer <[email protected]> (https://hloth.dev/)https://blog.hloth.dev/i-am-19/https://blog.hloth.dev/i-am-19/Переезд из России, поездка в Казахстан, костюмированный Хэллоуин у меня дома, 3 города России, Шанхай, Китай, гик-трип, почти оффер в Австралию и birthday party в Майнкрафте: как я провел первый год взрослой жизни и 19 день рождения.Sun, 07 Jul 2024 20:33:35 GMTi-am-19announcementViktor Shchelochkov / Full Stack Developer <[email protected]> (https://hloth.dev/)