golang How do I make breaking changes in Go without annoying people? Knowing when and how to make breaking changes is tough normally, and even tougher in the Go ecosystem. After being burned by making a breaking change and annoying people, I'm going to investigate how best to mitigate this annoyance.
nostalgia Exploiting UPnP, literally childsplay. Universal Plug and Play is an interesting standard. This is the story of how I exploited a design flaw in uPnP without even realizing it as a child.
stories Stories from previous jobs: Those damn Romanians and their damn data protection laws. Sometimes, the degree of insanity in a conversation can reach such a fever pitch that it is hard to recover. Someimes, people can say things that leave you so flabbergasted that you aren't sure if you're being trolled or not. This was one of those times.
redis Beating round-trip latency with Redis pipelining Without Redis Pipelining, when making many requests to a Redis, we are at the mercy of the latency between ourselves and the Redis server in question, or we're forced to use threading. To avoid this, we can 'pipeline' our requests.
life That time a sticker made me an accidental domain squatter I'd always wondered what these stickers meant. I never expected I'd discover this way...
Initiative Q Initiative Q - Get Rich Quick in 2018?! Q claims that it has found a way to incentivize shop owners to install their payment infrastructure, but as far as I can tell, they reckon giving a bunch of people worthless tokens will somehow encourages shop owners to pay to install hardware so tha...
Projects News in the morning: a simple hack - Part 1 Like many people, I find it difficult to wake up in the morning. I want to automate some of the things I do in the morning in order to continue to hack away
Projects NotSoEducated - a project from a while ago A while ago, I and a friend of mine got rather annoyed at a ridiculous propaganda attempt regarding e-cigarettes, so we countered it by parodying the completely uncited lies with a well cited,
Wear OS is upsetting, and I'm gonna rant about it I've personally been maintaining a policy that generally dumber tech is better. I don't own any smart speakers because they creep me out, I don't own any smart lightbulbs because i'm genuinely terrified
cybiko The Cybiko, a forgotten gem Few remember the Cybiko. In the year 2000, a Russian company unveiled a very strange looking device, adorned with a comically small keyboard and a retro antenna.
Projects Spooky ghost on a Pi, Because Why Not? The system currently hosting this blog is a Raspberry Pi 3b+. This is the (at the current time) latest revision of the single board computer, and features a slightly higher clock rate over the 3b, as well as better network performance. This is attached to a pretty standard 2 amp capable wall wart.
Projects World Explorer World Explorer This project provides you with two main scripts. The first is a player controller which was designed with the Oculus Rift DK2 in mind, but should work perfectly with more modern
