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Updated February 14, 2025
_Last Updated: 2025/02/14_ What I am doing or at least trying to do in various aspects of my life at the moment. In no particular order. ###### Running Training myself to run a sub 20 min 5K again. Iām employing extensive use of zone 2 type heartrate training. I run a 19:50 5K in 2022 and havenāt reached such great heights again. However the result is not as important as the process. Not long ago I finally understood the constraints around what it takes to develop ones aerobic fitness. What Iāll achieve in terms of consistent weekly training and eventually races wil stand testament to my application of where my curiosity has led me. At the moment Iāve run more this year than in the entirety of 2023 or 2022. Iām soon to catch up to 2021 which was my biggest year ever. In the first week of April I ran 87km in a single week, values above 70km is my goal for the months to come. ###### Weight loss Iāve always been on the heavier side. My bodyās natural disposition provides me with strength. Iām not lean by default but Iāve always wondered to what extent we can explore our setpoints? Although genetics plays a significant role, I believe the environment and how our genes are expressed is equally important. Perhaps how I view myself is only a narrative Iāve held from the moment one could be formed which was then based on conditions at the time. Expressed simply, can I become lean and can I stay there? And if so can I remain being strong too? From a peak of of 96kg in October 2023 Iām now down to 82kg in November 2024. My goal is 70kg which will place me just above the healthy BMI midpoint of 21.75. ###### Full Stack Development My experience of the South African digital information space is that UI/UX is not taken fully seriously. Apps, whether native or web, are clunky, slow and not user friendly to the wide variety of diverse people many of whom are coming online for the first time. This experience is close to home as I observe my mother becoming acquainted with the digital world. I also see Full Stack and App Development as a natural extension to my professional training as an industrial engineer. Digital services can help well designed systems function more efficiently. By decoupling a service from a physical location one can make it more available. South Africa in general is not good at this. I would like to contribute to the digitalisation of services here and in doing so treat newly minted netizens as first class citizens. To put it frankly there is very little development concern for non-English first language speakers from Africa nor for their African sensibilities and heritage. Iām pursuing a course through Scrimba, finishing Harvardās famous CS50, and working on full stack personal projects. ###### Pulling the Average Ever heard that oft shared maxim that you are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with? And the same time you may have heard that when a billionaire walks into busy resturant the average (mean) wealth of each person skyrockets into the millions. Let me me clear when I say I find both ideas somewhat nonsensical and yet within them there is a certain truth to group social dynamics. My aim is to be the ābillionaireā that pulls the averages of multiple aspects in all the groups I am part of. Being a force of nature is arguabaly a natural part of my personailty, Iād like to use this unintented influence for good. My first frontier is regarding personal health. Iām openly conscientious about my decisions to work on various aspects of my physical, mental, and emotional health. I fortuantely have not been a paragon in this regard, I am very human and thus subject to the averages. However I feel with intentionality I can swim upstream. This teeters dangerously on the notion of superiority, that is expressly not the intention. My feeling is more along the lines of lead by example, and if I can do it then you can to. What is the difference? I believe it is in acknowledging and encouraging the effort of others no matter how small and praising their achievement within their context. ###### Khadiramina Khadiramina, Tsonga for āmy cardā, is my first small project that enables iOS users to store their loyalty cards in their digital wallets. South African companies do not take feature expecting customers to carry a stack of loyalty cards. From what Iāve observed people forget their cards regularly and in some ways they serve little utility. However, Appleās Wallet app can store them on phones and even have them be geographically aware. This project is a very small one but address in its very small way my goal of improving digital services here. ###### Rihanyo Rihanyo, Tsonga for āhealthā, is iOS app that functions as health dashboard for observing weekly fitness trends. This is a project to also explore and understand working with SwiftUI and making an app for iOS devices. I feel in terms of health management it is the week to week to week trend that is underated. Daily is too specific and monthly is too broad. The idea is that it is tricky plan a whole monthās worth of fitness plans and stick to them but planning a week is more manageable. Long term Iād like to enable an AI coaching function to consider recommended certain activities or notice when trends are improving, declining, or is one is beginning to take strain. I feel this is likely something Apple is working on. ###### Searching for work I am simultaneously trying to find or create my own work. If youāre hiring or looking to collaborate let me know. I am particularly interested in opportunities that would bring me into Schegen Europe and in particular Finland. I am however genuinely open and also happy to work remotely across timezones. ###### Writing I am simply aim to write more and enjoy the interaction that those who resonate (or disgree!) with my writing bring into my life. In my social circles Iām well known for writing the longest text messages and in person talking for hours and hours. If I have an upper limit I have not yet found it. This Iāve found is a lot for pretty much everyone and writing is more than a suitable substitute as it also helps to organise and develop thoughts. ###### Language Learning It is a goal of mine to speak more languages. Like most first language English speakers it has remained the only language Iām comfortable in. I lived for a couple of years in Beijing and have some ability to communicate in Mandarin. I would like this to be better, much better. I have the dream of being able to Liu Cixinās Three Body Problem in original Mandarin. In this regard Iām studying Mandarin Chinese again. Chinese however is the not only language I wish to learn. I am also learning Finnish. Many argue that it is not a useful language to learn but I argue that use is not the only criteria by which one should measure their interests. It would indeed be very useful living in Finland, or in my cas,e being partnered with a Finn. However, I do find it deeply interesting as it is has an unusual grammatical structure and I enjoy the way it feels on the tongue. If my language ambition is not already too grand, I too wish to have some command of Japanese and Tsonga. Japanese as a matter of interest in the society and culture that Iāve largely only known from a distance but is one that I do find fascinating. Tsonga because it is my motherās first language and one that I have never known her it. I would love to have a handle on the basics. Of all the languages here, Tsonga frustratingly has the hardest pronounciation for me and additionally has the least learning available learning materials. I may have to wait for AI enabled language tutors before ground can be made here.
_Last Updated: 2025/02/14_ What I am doing or at least trying to do in various aspects of my life at the moment. In no particular order. ###### Running Training myself to run a sub 20 min 5K again. Iām employing extensive use of zone 2 type heartrate training. I run a 19:50 5K in 2022 and havenāt reached such great heights again. However the result is not as important as the process. Not long ago I finally understood the constraints around what it takes to develop ones aerobic fitness. What Iāll achieve in terms of consistent weekly training and eventually races wil stand testament to my application of where my curiosity has led me. At the moment Iāve run more this year than in the entirety of 2023 or 2022. Iām soon to catch up to 2021 which was my biggest year ever. In the first week of April I ran 87km in a single week, values above 70km is my goal for the months to come. ###### Weight loss Iāve always been on the heavier side. My bodyās natural disposition provides me with strength. Iām not lean by default but Iāve always wondered to what extent we can explore our setpoints? Although genetics plays a significant role, I believe the environment and how our genes are expressed is equally important. Perhaps how I view myself is only a narrative Iāve held from the moment one could be formed which was then based on conditions at the time. Expressed simply, can I become lean and can I stay there? And if so can I remain being strong too? From a peak of of 96kg in October 2023 Iām now down to 82kg in November 2024. My goal is 70kg which will place me just above the healthy BMI midpoint of 21.75. ###### Full Stack Development My experience of the South African digital information space is that UI/UX is not taken fully seriously. Apps, whether native or web, are clunky, slow and not user friendly to the wide variety of diverse people many of whom are coming online for the first time. This experience is close to home as I observe my mother becoming acquainted with the digital world. I also see Full Stack and App Development as a natural extension to my professional training as an industrial engineer. Digital services can help well designed systems function more efficiently. By decoupling a service from a physical location one can make it more available. South Africa in general is not good at this. I would like to contribute to the digitalisation of services here and in doing so treat newly minted netizens as first class citizens. To put it frankly there is very little development concern for non-English first language speakers from Africa nor for their African sensibilities and heritage. Iām pursuing a course through Scrimba, finishing Harvardās famous CS50, and working on full stack personal projects. ###### Pulling the Average Ever heard that oft shared maxim that you are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with? And the same time you may have heard that when a billionaire walks into busy resturant the average (mean) wealth of each person skyrockets into the millions. Let me me clear when I say I find both ideas somewhat nonsensical and yet within them there is a certain truth to group social dynamics. My aim is to be the ābillionaireā that pulls the averages of multiple aspects in all the groups I am part of. Being a force of nature is arguabaly a natural part of my personailty, Iād like to use this unintented influence for good. My first frontier is regarding personal health. Iām openly conscientious about my decisions to work on various aspects of my physical, mental, and emotional health. I fortuantely have not been a paragon in this regard, I am very human and thus subject to the averages. However I feel with intentionality I can swim upstream. This teeters dangerously on the notion of superiority, that is expressly not the intention. My feeling is more along the lines of lead by example, and if I can do it then you can to. What is the difference? I believe it is in acknowledging and encouraging the effort of others no matter how small and praising their achievement within their context. ###### Khadiramina Khadiramina, Tsonga for āmy cardā, is my first small project that enables iOS users to store their loyalty cards in their digital wallets. South African companies do not take feature expecting customers to carry a stack of loyalty cards. From what Iāve observed people forget their cards regularly and in some ways they serve little utility. However, Appleās Wallet app can store them on phones and even have them be geographically aware. This project is a very small one but address in its very small way my goal of improving digital services here. ###### Rihanyo Rihanyo, Tsonga for āhealthā, is iOS app that functions as health dashboard for observing weekly fitness trends. This is a project to also explore and understand working with SwiftUI and making an app for iOS devices. I feel in terms of health management it is the week to week to week trend that is underated. Daily is too specific and monthly is too broad. The idea is that it is tricky plan a whole monthās worth of fitness plans and stick to them but planning a week is more manageable. Long term Iād like to enable an AI coaching function to consider recommended certain activities or notice when trends are improving, declining, or is one is beginning to take strain. I feel this is likely something Apple is working on. ###### Searching for work I am simultaneously trying to find or create my own work. If youāre hiring or looking to collaborate let me know. I am particularly interested in opportunities that would bring me into Schegen Europe and in particular Finland. I am however genuinely open and also happy to work remotely across timezones. ###### Writing I am simply aim to write more and enjoy the interaction that those who resonate (or disgree!) with my writing bring into my life. In my social circles Iām well known for writing the longest text messages and in person talking for hours and hours. If I have an upper limit I have not yet found it. This Iāve found is a lot for pretty much everyone and writing is more than a suitable substitute as it also helps to organise and develop thoughts. ###### Language Learning It is a goal of mine to speak more languages. Like most first language English speakers it has remained the only language Iām comfortable in. I lived for a couple of years in Beijing and have some ability to communicate in Mandarin. I would like this to be better, much better. I have the dream of being able to Liu Cixinās Three Body Problem in original Mandarin. In this regard Iām studying Mandarin Chinese again. Chinese however is the not only language I wish to learn. I am also learning Finnish. Many argue that it is not a useful language to learn but I argue that use is not the only criteria by which one should measure their interests. It would indeed be very useful living in Finland, or in my cas,e being partnered with a Finn. However, I do find it deeply interesting as it is has an unusual grammatical structure and I enjoy the way it feels on the tongue. If my language ambition is not already too grand, I too wish to have some command of Japanese and Tsonga. Japanese as a matter of interest in the society and culture that Iāve largely only known from a distance but is one that I do find fascinating. Tsonga because it is my motherās first language and one that I have never known her it. I would love to have a handle on the basics. Of all the languages here, Tsonga frustratingly has the hardest pronounciation for me and additionally has the least learning available learning materials. I may have to wait for AI enabled language tutors before ground can be made here.
vlfig.me
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Updated February 14, 2025
Farewell iov42 -------------- in work on 14 February 2025 #organisations #purpose (3 mins) I think most of us in technical careers yearn for a professional experience that brings all the good things together.ā¦ Crowdsource your job titles --------------------------- in work on 3 January 2025 #organisations (1 mins) Those who know me know that I'm distrustful of many aspects of the traditional view of hierarchy in the workplace. I espouse "weird" ideas like Holacracy, scoff at the robotic behaviour many humans think they should follow, and nurture an amused scepticism towards titles. Tech job market impressions 2020 -------------------------------- in work on 23 October 2020 #hiring #recruiting #market (2 mins) I'm a software engineer, and I was on the job market recently. Some assorted impressions. Microservices ā architecture nihilism in minimalism's clothes ------------------------------------------------------------- in work on 29 September 2020 #architecture #software (22 mins) Some recent backtracking from what we have been calling "Microservices" has sparked anew the debate around that software architecture pattern. It turns out that for increasingly more software people, having a backend with (sometimes several) hundreds of services wasn't that great an idea after all. The debate has been going on for a while and much has already been said, but there are still a couple of things I'd like to say. Hierarchy in Progressive Organisations -------------------------------------- in work on 19 July 2020 #sociocracy #organisations #holacracy (2 mins) I still think many organisations today haven't yet found their stride with respect to hierarchy.
Farewell iov42 -------------- in work on 14 February 2025 #organisations #purpose (3 mins) I think most of us in technical careers yearn for a professional experience that brings all the good things together.ā¦ Crowdsource your job titles --------------------------- in work on 3 January 2025 #organisations (1 mins) Those who know me know that I'm distrustful of many aspects of the traditional view of hierarchy in the workplace. I espouse "weird" ideas like Holacracy, scoff at the robotic behaviour many humans think they should follow, and nurture an amused scepticism towards titles. Tech job market impressions 2020 -------------------------------- in work on 23 October 2020 #hiring #recruiting #market (2 mins) I'm a software engineer, and I was on the job market recently. Some assorted impressions. Microservices ā architecture nihilism in minimalism's clothes ------------------------------------------------------------- in work on 29 September 2020 #architecture #software (22 mins) Some recent backtracking from what we have been calling "Microservices" has sparked anew the debate around that software architecture pattern. It turns out that for increasingly more software people, having a backend with (sometimes several) hundreds of services wasn't that great an idea after all. The debate has been going on for a while and much has already been said, but there are still a couple of things I'd like to say. Hierarchy in Progressive Organisations -------------------------------------- in work on 19 July 2020 #sociocracy #organisations #holacracy (2 mins) I still think many organisations today haven't yet found their stride with respect to hierarchy.
blog.darylsun.page
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Updated February 12, 2025
Here's a list of * Self-host my blog using a setup that uses Markdown files and git * Run a Gemini capsule * Self-host a guestbook for my blog * Sign blog posts and pages with PGP Last updated 2025-02-12. Inspired by Artem Tyurin's /ideas page.
Here's a list of * Self-host my blog using a setup that uses Markdown files and git * Run a Gemini capsule * Self-host a guestbook for my blog * Sign blog posts and pages with PGP Last updated 2025-02-12. Inspired by Artem Tyurin's /ideas page.
blog.xot.nl
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Updated February 11, 2025
A QR code on food? ------------------ I recently became aware of a lobby to replace the textual food labels with QR codes. The food labels contain information about its ingredients, calories, vitamins and allergens, for example. Because food must be labelled in the language of the country in which it is sold, labelled food cannot easily be re-exported. In Europe this has led to artificial price differences on foods sold in neighbouring countries. Replacing textual food labels with a QR code that, when scanned, points to a website with the food label in your language of choice would break that barrier. Bye Bye Big Tech ---------------- With Elon Musk giving the Hitler salute, Instagram blocking Democrats related searches and the United States turning into an oligarchy it is time to say goodbye to Big tech. The only way to stop the oligarchs, is to hit them where it hurts. Kill their businesses, and stop them from becoming trilionaires. Say goodbye to Big Tech. Itās possible (though not painless). Soms zijn āgbā beter. --------------------- Gisteren stond in de Volkskrant een interessant artikel over het gebruik van kunstmatige intelligentie om de zorg efficiĆ«nter te maken. Vooral omdat het liet zien hoe een op zich zinvolle en verantwoorde toepassing van AI toch symptoombestrijding is, en bovendien tot een vicieuze cirkel van steeds meer zinloze en onverantwoorde AI gaat leiden. Met andere woorden: een perfect voorbeeld van tech solutionism. Opvallende statistiek over de DNA-databank voor Strafzaken ---------------------------------------------------------- Opvallende statistiek over de DNA-databank voor Strafzaken, die DNA-profielen van verdachten, veroordeelden en _overleden slachtoffers_ bevat. De database bevat sinds kort de DNA-profielen van meer dan 400.000 personen. Interessanter nog is het feit dat van alle sporen die door de politie zijn veiliggesteld voor een strafrechtelijk onderzoek, 62 procent nu een match levert. Het gaat om zoān 200 tot 400 matches per maand. Dat zijn er best veel. End-to-end encryptie en de risicoās van client-side scanning (encore) --------------------------------------------------------------------- De Europese Commissie wil serieus werk maken van de bestrijding van online kindermisbruik. Vanwege de gevoeligheid van het onderwerp, en de grote impact die het oorspronkelijke voorstel voor een Verordening zou hebben op zowel de bedrijfsvoering van online dienstverleners als de fundamentele rechten van Europese burgers, is hierover nog steeds geen overeenstemming bereikt. Gezien de ernst van kindermisbruik is de voortvarendheid van de Commissie volledig te begrijpen. Maar ook aan het meest recente compromisvoorstel, dat in concept is opgesteld onder het Hongaarse voorzitterschap, kleven fundamentele bezwaren. Het totale pakket aan voorgestelde maatregelen is breed, maar ik wil me hier beperken tot het zogenaamde detectiebevel.
A QR code on food? ------------------ I recently became aware of a lobby to replace the textual food labels with QR codes. The food labels contain information about its ingredients, calories, vitamins and allergens, for example. Because food must be labelled in the language of the country in which it is sold, labelled food cannot easily be re-exported. In Europe this has led to artificial price differences on foods sold in neighbouring countries. Replacing textual food labels with a QR code that, when scanned, points to a website with the food label in your language of choice would break that barrier. Bye Bye Big Tech ---------------- With Elon Musk giving the Hitler salute, Instagram blocking Democrats related searches and the United States turning into an oligarchy it is time to say goodbye to Big tech. The only way to stop the oligarchs, is to hit them where it hurts. Kill their businesses, and stop them from becoming trilionaires. Say goodbye to Big Tech. Itās possible (though not painless). Soms zijn āgbā beter. --------------------- Gisteren stond in de Volkskrant een interessant artikel over het gebruik van kunstmatige intelligentie om de zorg efficiĆ«nter te maken. Vooral omdat het liet zien hoe een op zich zinvolle en verantwoorde toepassing van AI toch symptoombestrijding is, en bovendien tot een vicieuze cirkel van steeds meer zinloze en onverantwoorde AI gaat leiden. Met andere woorden: een perfect voorbeeld van tech solutionism. Opvallende statistiek over de DNA-databank voor Strafzaken ---------------------------------------------------------- Opvallende statistiek over de DNA-databank voor Strafzaken, die DNA-profielen van verdachten, veroordeelden en _overleden slachtoffers_ bevat. De database bevat sinds kort de DNA-profielen van meer dan 400.000 personen. Interessanter nog is het feit dat van alle sporen die door de politie zijn veiliggesteld voor een strafrechtelijk onderzoek, 62 procent nu een match levert. Het gaat om zoān 200 tot 400 matches per maand. Dat zijn er best veel. End-to-end encryptie en de risicoās van client-side scanning (encore) --------------------------------------------------------------------- De Europese Commissie wil serieus werk maken van de bestrijding van online kindermisbruik. Vanwege de gevoeligheid van het onderwerp, en de grote impact die het oorspronkelijke voorstel voor een Verordening zou hebben op zowel de bedrijfsvoering van online dienstverleners als de fundamentele rechten van Europese burgers, is hierover nog steeds geen overeenstemming bereikt. Gezien de ernst van kindermisbruik is de voortvarendheid van de Commissie volledig te begrijpen. Maar ook aan het meest recente compromisvoorstel, dat in concept is opgesteld onder het Hongaarse voorzitterschap, kleven fundamentele bezwaren. Het totale pakket aan voorgestelde maatregelen is breed, maar ik wil me hier beperken tot het zogenaamde detectiebevel.
xakcop.com
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Updated February 8, 2025
Default Wi-Fi passwords ----------------------- Back in 2022 I was speaking at BSides Sofia about hacking set-top boxes and decrypting IPTV streams. After the talk I met Alex Stanev who told me about the wpa-sec project he was running. The project is about collecting WPA handshakes and cracking them in distributed manner. I got interested and Alex was kind enough to share a lot of his research with me. It turns out that a lot of routers are using some crappy algorithms for generating pseudo-random default Wi-Fi passwords. Reversing MAGic Remote ---------------------- If you have a MAG set-top box, you may know there is a mobile app called āMAGic Remoteā which turns your phone into a remote controller. It looks like this: Allowing remote control over the network is great but there is no public information on the protocol being used. MAGic Remote is also paid and I donāt quite understand why people should be giving money for something so simple. That was my motivation to reverse engineer the protocol and create an open-source client. Making a Chromecast receiver ---------------------------- I made a Chromecast receiver which works on Linux. It is called Shanocast and it can mirror a Chrome tab or the entire desktop. Here is a demo: Your browser does not support the video tag. The implementation is based on Openscreen which is an open-source implementation of the Chromecast protocol. The tricky part is the receiver authentication. Google Chrome authenticates the receiver and refuses to stream to it if the authentication fails. Hyundai Head Unit Hacking ------------------------- In the previous post I have shown how to crack the official firmware for Hyundai Tucson 2020 and reverse engineer it. At the end I was thinking that I can simply modify the update package, zip it again with the same password and push it to the car. But it turned out it is not that simple. The update package is signed with an RSA key which corresponds to the daudio. Hacking Hyundai Tucson 2020 --------------------------- I bought Hyundai Tucson 2020 two years ago and recently I found great series of blog posts on how to hack Hyundai Ioniq 2021 by greenluigi1. Unfortunately, the methods described there didnāt work for me. My car is running the previous generation of D-Audio which is quite different from D-Audio 2V described by greenluigi1. For reference, these are the exact versions of the firmware/software which I have: I also found the password protected Engineering Mode which appears by tapping 5 times on the left from the Update button and 2 times on the right: Reversing 2.4GHz remote control ------------------------------- I have an old project on Github called rf-car for controlling a radio car with HackRF. A few months ago, my daughter received a new RC car made by Dickie Toys: This car was faster than the previous one and it was more fun to play with. I thought itād be great if I can add support for it in the rf-car project and the fun began. FCC docs The car works on 2. Receiving SSTV from ISS ----------------------- Today I have successfully received and decoded an SSTV transmission from ISS. This is the result: In this post I will give a quick summary of what I have been using and how it worked for me. Hardware: USRP B200 - this is a high-end SDR but RTL-SDR dongle should also be fine Dipole antenna - I bought this from the RTL-SDR store; each side of the dipole should be around 50cm to make it resonant to 145. SoftHSMv2 internals ------------------- SoftHSMv2 is a software implementation of the PCKS#11 interface. It is often used as replacement for real HSM devices in test environments where protecting key material is not a strong requirement. In this post I will explain how the state of SoftHSMv2 is persisted, the security behind it and what can be improved. Tokens and objects Token is the PKCS#11 term for something that stores cryptographic objects and performs cryptographic operations. How many people are around -------------------------- There is a nice open-source project howmanypeoplearearound that counts the number of people around by sniffing WiFi probe requests sent from mobile phones. Well, now we have another method to do the same by exploiting the contact tracing functionality which is being added to iOS and Android. Cell phones are using Bluetooth Low Energy to transmit ephemeral IDs to nearby devices in order to discover encounters with other people. These IDs and the Bluetooth MAC changes every 15-20 minutes to prevent tracking of users. Signing files with Solo ----------------------- Solo is FIDO2 security key with open hardware and firmware. I have been following the project and using the key for quite a while now. It shares my believe that security solutions must be open. Solo is not only open but it also have developer edition, called Solo Hacker, which allows firmware modifications. Iāve been dealing with digital signatures a lot lately, so I thought why not use my Solo key to sign files?
Default Wi-Fi passwords ----------------------- Back in 2022 I was speaking at BSides Sofia about hacking set-top boxes and decrypting IPTV streams. After the talk I met Alex Stanev who told me about the wpa-sec project he was running. The project is about collecting WPA handshakes and cracking them in distributed manner. I got interested and Alex was kind enough to share a lot of his research with me. It turns out that a lot of routers are using some crappy algorithms for generating pseudo-random default Wi-Fi passwords. Reversing MAGic Remote ---------------------- If you have a MAG set-top box, you may know there is a mobile app called āMAGic Remoteā which turns your phone into a remote controller. It looks like this: Allowing remote control over the network is great but there is no public information on the protocol being used. MAGic Remote is also paid and I donāt quite understand why people should be giving money for something so simple. That was my motivation to reverse engineer the protocol and create an open-source client. Making a Chromecast receiver ---------------------------- I made a Chromecast receiver which works on Linux. It is called Shanocast and it can mirror a Chrome tab or the entire desktop. Here is a demo: Your browser does not support the video tag. The implementation is based on Openscreen which is an open-source implementation of the Chromecast protocol. The tricky part is the receiver authentication. Google Chrome authenticates the receiver and refuses to stream to it if the authentication fails. Hyundai Head Unit Hacking ------------------------- In the previous post I have shown how to crack the official firmware for Hyundai Tucson 2020 and reverse engineer it. At the end I was thinking that I can simply modify the update package, zip it again with the same password and push it to the car. But it turned out it is not that simple. The update package is signed with an RSA key which corresponds to the daudio. Hacking Hyundai Tucson 2020 --------------------------- I bought Hyundai Tucson 2020 two years ago and recently I found great series of blog posts on how to hack Hyundai Ioniq 2021 by greenluigi1. Unfortunately, the methods described there didnāt work for me. My car is running the previous generation of D-Audio which is quite different from D-Audio 2V described by greenluigi1. For reference, these are the exact versions of the firmware/software which I have: I also found the password protected Engineering Mode which appears by tapping 5 times on the left from the Update button and 2 times on the right: Reversing 2.4GHz remote control ------------------------------- I have an old project on Github called rf-car for controlling a radio car with HackRF. A few months ago, my daughter received a new RC car made by Dickie Toys: This car was faster than the previous one and it was more fun to play with. I thought itād be great if I can add support for it in the rf-car project and the fun began. FCC docs The car works on 2. Receiving SSTV from ISS ----------------------- Today I have successfully received and decoded an SSTV transmission from ISS. This is the result: In this post I will give a quick summary of what I have been using and how it worked for me. Hardware: USRP B200 - this is a high-end SDR but RTL-SDR dongle should also be fine Dipole antenna - I bought this from the RTL-SDR store; each side of the dipole should be around 50cm to make it resonant to 145. SoftHSMv2 internals ------------------- SoftHSMv2 is a software implementation of the PCKS#11 interface. It is often used as replacement for real HSM devices in test environments where protecting key material is not a strong requirement. In this post I will explain how the state of SoftHSMv2 is persisted, the security behind it and what can be improved. Tokens and objects Token is the PKCS#11 term for something that stores cryptographic objects and performs cryptographic operations. How many people are around -------------------------- There is a nice open-source project howmanypeoplearearound that counts the number of people around by sniffing WiFi probe requests sent from mobile phones. Well, now we have another method to do the same by exploiting the contact tracing functionality which is being added to iOS and Android. Cell phones are using Bluetooth Low Energy to transmit ephemeral IDs to nearby devices in order to discover encounters with other people. These IDs and the Bluetooth MAC changes every 15-20 minutes to prevent tracking of users. Signing files with Solo ----------------------- Solo is FIDO2 security key with open hardware and firmware. I have been following the project and using the key for quite a while now. It shares my believe that security solutions must be open. Solo is not only open but it also have developer edition, called Solo Hacker, which allows firmware modifications. Iāve been dealing with digital signatures a lot lately, so I thought why not use my Solo key to sign files?
mdhughes.tech
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Updated February 7, 2025
Mark Damon Hughes: * @mdhughes@appdot.net: Fediverse * Nintendo Switch Friend Code: Kamimark SW-5075-6646-9991 * IRC: mdhughes on libera.chat ā¦is a carbon-based life form who lives in a frozen tundra biome, and rolls dice a lot. ā¦writes web, Mac, and iOS games and utility software at mdhughes.tech.
Mark Damon Hughes: * @mdhughes@appdot.net: Fediverse * Nintendo Switch Friend Code: Kamimark SW-5075-6646-9991 * IRC: mdhughes on libera.chat ā¦is a carbon-based life form who lives in a frozen tundra biome, and rolls dice a lot. ā¦writes web, Mac, and iOS games and utility software at mdhughes.tech.
michaelagreiler.com
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Updated February 6, 2025
Dr. Michaela Greiler -------------------- Research and Development at Microsoft ------------------------------------- At Microsoft, I worked with all major top-class engineering teams, such as Office, Visual Studio and Windows to improve their testing, code review and build processes, practices and tools.Ā "innovative and solid" ---------------------- Michaela is a great example to show how beneficial innovation can be for software companies. Her ability to apply research findings to industry settings is impressive. I follow her work at Microsoft and her research with joy now for several years. Her research is innovative and solid. And she sure knows how to present research findings and complex concepts in a digestible way. She gave two keynotes for conferences I organized and each one of them was informative, dynamic and entertaining at the same time. She is on the top of my go-to list for outstanding speakers and I sure invite her for the next conferences and training I organize.ā Ways to work with me -------------------- Assessments & Workshops ----------------------- Through in-depth assessments, I help teams identify bottlenecks and friction in their processes and tools. I then, work with teams to overcome those and to unlock their full potential.Ā With workshops, I help teams stay up-to-date on proven software engineering best practices especially code reviews and design patterns. I work closely with the organizations to ensure the workshops are highly valuable and tailored towards their engineering team.Ā Public speaking --------------- I love to share my experience through talks. In technical talks, I share * how software teams can understand and resolve bottlenecks in their software development life cycle, * how to (not) measure productivity, * how teams get the most out of code reviews, and * how teams can make data-driven improvements to their software engineering processes and tools.Ā Awards & Patents ---------------- Google's Techmaker Awardā ------------------------- In 2012, I won the Googles AnitaBorg scholarship for my work on dynamic and static analysis of highly-dynamic systems. Patent for "Selecting Tests for Execution on a Software Product" ---------------------------------------------------------------- This patent is a result from my work with the Windows team on safely removing tests from test suites for faster test execution. Best Paper Award ---------------- I won the best paper award for my work on Understanding plug-in test suites from an integration perspective at the working conference on reverse engineering. Education --------- In 2013, I obtained my PhD in software engineering for my research at Delft University of Technology.Ā My research focuses on analyzing complex software systems and software processes. I also hold a Masters and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science. Scientific Publications ----------------------- To date, I published over 17 articles in highly prestigious peer-reviewed journals such as IEEE, ACM, Springer or the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE). I also presented my work at highly ranked conferences such as the International Conference on Software Engineering. Sign-up to my Newsletter ------------------------ My newsletter is valued by more than 3000 developers. Sign-up to get summaries and thoughts on relevant software engineering topicsm especially on code reviews. I also prepare several specials for my subscribers, such as my code review e-book.
Dr. Michaela Greiler -------------------- Research and Development at Microsoft ------------------------------------- At Microsoft, I worked with all major top-class engineering teams, such as Office, Visual Studio and Windows to improve their testing, code review and build processes, practices and tools.Ā "innovative and solid" ---------------------- Michaela is a great example to show how beneficial innovation can be for software companies. Her ability to apply research findings to industry settings is impressive. I follow her work at Microsoft and her research with joy now for several years. Her research is innovative and solid. And she sure knows how to present research findings and complex concepts in a digestible way. She gave two keynotes for conferences I organized and each one of them was informative, dynamic and entertaining at the same time. She is on the top of my go-to list for outstanding speakers and I sure invite her for the next conferences and training I organize.ā Ways to work with me -------------------- Assessments & Workshops ----------------------- Through in-depth assessments, I help teams identify bottlenecks and friction in their processes and tools. I then, work with teams to overcome those and to unlock their full potential.Ā With workshops, I help teams stay up-to-date on proven software engineering best practices especially code reviews and design patterns. I work closely with the organizations to ensure the workshops are highly valuable and tailored towards their engineering team.Ā Public speaking --------------- I love to share my experience through talks. In technical talks, I share * how software teams can understand and resolve bottlenecks in their software development life cycle, * how to (not) measure productivity, * how teams get the most out of code reviews, and * how teams can make data-driven improvements to their software engineering processes and tools.Ā Awards & Patents ---------------- Google's Techmaker Awardā ------------------------- In 2012, I won the Googles AnitaBorg scholarship for my work on dynamic and static analysis of highly-dynamic systems. Patent for "Selecting Tests for Execution on a Software Product" ---------------------------------------------------------------- This patent is a result from my work with the Windows team on safely removing tests from test suites for faster test execution. Best Paper Award ---------------- I won the best paper award for my work on Understanding plug-in test suites from an integration perspective at the working conference on reverse engineering. Education --------- In 2013, I obtained my PhD in software engineering for my research at Delft University of Technology.Ā My research focuses on analyzing complex software systems and software processes. I also hold a Masters and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science. Scientific Publications ----------------------- To date, I published over 17 articles in highly prestigious peer-reviewed journals such as IEEE, ACM, Springer or the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE). I also presented my work at highly ranked conferences such as the International Conference on Software Engineering. Sign-up to my Newsletter ------------------------ My newsletter is valued by more than 3000 developers. Sign-up to get summaries and thoughts on relevant software engineering topicsm especially on code reviews. I also prepare several specials for my subscribers, such as my code review e-book.
wargaluk.com
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Updated February 6, 2025
* I live in the Praga district of Warsaw, where I have spent nearly all my life. * I try to read at least two hours each day, alternating between different combinations of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and comic books. I have several āto-readā lists that I switch between depending on my mood. * Recently Iāve decided to start reading in French in addition to my usual English and Polish. * I try to take at least one short walk each day. On weekends, I go for longer walks. Iām fortunate to live near two large green spaces where I enjoy watching birds and other forms of semi-wildlife. * My girlfriend and my mother are the only people I have regular contact with. * I spend most of my days at home, numbly sitting in front of a computer. * I work freelance designing book covers and interiors and typesetting them. * During lulls between work, I try to develop various personal creative projects or pursue some fleeting interests. Then I usually abandon them halfway and forget about them. * Iām trying to get back to ācreativeā writing. * From time to time, I feel extraordinarily bad. During these periods, it is very difficult for me to function normally.
* I live in the Praga district of Warsaw, where I have spent nearly all my life. * I try to read at least two hours each day, alternating between different combinations of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and comic books. I have several āto-readā lists that I switch between depending on my mood. * Recently Iāve decided to start reading in French in addition to my usual English and Polish. * I try to take at least one short walk each day. On weekends, I go for longer walks. Iām fortunate to live near two large green spaces where I enjoy watching birds and other forms of semi-wildlife. * My girlfriend and my mother are the only people I have regular contact with. * I spend most of my days at home, numbly sitting in front of a computer. * I work freelance designing book covers and interiors and typesetting them. * During lulls between work, I try to develop various personal creative projects or pursue some fleeting interests. Then I usually abandon them halfway and forget about them. * Iām trying to get back to ācreativeā writing. * From time to time, I feel extraordinarily bad. During these periods, it is very difficult for me to function normally.
pippinbarr.com
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Updated February 5, 2025
GAMETHING, Season 11: Luck (2025) (with David Wolinsky) Season 11 of GAMETHING, my podcast with David Wolinsky, is about luck! Well, punk?
GAMETHING, Season 11: Luck (2025) (with David Wolinsky) Season 11 of GAMETHING, my podcast with David Wolinsky, is about luck! Well, punk?
keithdonegan.com
/now
Updated February 4, 2025
Inspired by Derek SiverāsĀ now idea. Updated: 4th Feb, 2025 * Working as a web developer. * Renovating a 19th century house. * Planning a bike trip to Amsterdam this year. * Trying to find time to post more over at Frontend Hero.
Inspired by Derek SiverāsĀ now idea. Updated: 4th Feb, 2025 * Working as a web developer. * Renovating a 19th century house. * Planning a bike trip to Amsterdam this year. * Trying to find time to post more over at Frontend Hero.
yotam.net
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Updated February 4, 2025
Social Subscribe * My First FOSDEM 2025-02-04 * Remote Reverse Tethering With Gnirehtet 2024-07-27 * Dont Forget The Dot 2023-11-25 * Please, Let Me Choose The Binding Address 2023-10-28 * OpenBSD in an Air-Gapped System 2023-08-12 * Network Management in Android: Routing 2023-07-07 * Dedicated CPU instances on the cloud 2023-06-18 * Compiling Frida on Fedora 2023-02-08 * Easing Deployment Without Containers 2022-12-13 * Kodi Setup: Sailing The High Seas 2022-12-01 * Two Different Outlooks of Computers 2022-11-21 * Linux Namespaces Are a Poor Man's Plan 9 Namespaces 2022-11-05 * What Makes Sourcehut CI So Good 2022-10-24 * Promoting Free Culture With Proprietary Software 2022-09-26 * The Audacity of Piping Curl to Bash 2021-09-25 * Reviewing my tweaks for Fedora 2020-05-08 * Change New Tab in Firefox 2019-12-24 * Why I Give Up on Free Software Phones 2019-11-09 * Building a Python Project With Meson 2019-08-30 * Spawning a Subprocess With GLib and Gio 2019-08-02 * Why Static Typing 2019-05-25 * Python Type Hinting - Part I 2019-04-27 * Compile Vala With Meson 2017-08-09 * Getting Started With Vala 2017-08-08
Social Subscribe * My First FOSDEM 2025-02-04 * Remote Reverse Tethering With Gnirehtet 2024-07-27 * Dont Forget The Dot 2023-11-25 * Please, Let Me Choose The Binding Address 2023-10-28 * OpenBSD in an Air-Gapped System 2023-08-12 * Network Management in Android: Routing 2023-07-07 * Dedicated CPU instances on the cloud 2023-06-18 * Compiling Frida on Fedora 2023-02-08 * Easing Deployment Without Containers 2022-12-13 * Kodi Setup: Sailing The High Seas 2022-12-01 * Two Different Outlooks of Computers 2022-11-21 * Linux Namespaces Are a Poor Man's Plan 9 Namespaces 2022-11-05 * What Makes Sourcehut CI So Good 2022-10-24 * Promoting Free Culture With Proprietary Software 2022-09-26 * The Audacity of Piping Curl to Bash 2021-09-25 * Reviewing my tweaks for Fedora 2020-05-08 * Change New Tab in Firefox 2019-12-24 * Why I Give Up on Free Software Phones 2019-11-09 * Building a Python Project With Meson 2019-08-30 * Spawning a Subprocess With GLib and Gio 2019-08-02 * Why Static Typing 2019-05-25 * Python Type Hinting - Part I 2019-04-27 * Compile Vala With Meson 2017-08-09 * Getting Started With Vala 2017-08-08
biglawinvestor.com
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Updated February 3, 2025
Hi, Iām Joshua Holt, and hereās a list of what I am currently working on: * Improving my tennis game and hitting 250 hours of court time in 2025. * Exploring my home city: Austin, Texas * Spending more time with my 6 year old son. * Building a financial services company for high-income professionals. * Growing a legal community with hundreds of members. Interested? Check out Sidebar. * Learning how to improve my marketing. * Mentoring law students and junior associates as they navigate Biglaw. These are my priorities and Iām not looking to be involved in any new projects. Iād love to hear from you. PleaseĀ email meĀ and say hi. _Last updated_: February 2025. (Great idea, borrowed fromĀ Derek Sivers)
Hi, Iām Joshua Holt, and hereās a list of what I am currently working on: * Improving my tennis game and hitting 250 hours of court time in 2025. * Exploring my home city: Austin, Texas * Spending more time with my 6 year old son. * Building a financial services company for high-income professionals. * Growing a legal community with hundreds of members. Interested? Check out Sidebar. * Learning how to improve my marketing. * Mentoring law students and junior associates as they navigate Biglaw. These are my priorities and Iām not looking to be involved in any new projects. Iād love to hear from you. PleaseĀ email meĀ and say hi. _Last updated_: February 2025. (Great idea, borrowed fromĀ Derek Sivers)
corinaburri.com
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Updated February 3, 2025
Corina Burri is an SEO consultant from ZĆ¼rich, Switzerland. Since 2021, she has been open-sourcing her knowledge about SEO on her blog and talks. Her articles have been featured in famous industry outlets such as SEOFOMO, Tech SEO Tips, and Rich Snippets from Traffic Think Thank. She also co-organizes the WordPress ZĆ¼rich Meetup. Corina works in English, German, Spanish, and French. Additionally, she socializes in Catalan, Italian and Swedish. (Corina finds it awkward to write in the third person on her own website. But she knows this will increase her chances of winning a Featured Snippet on the SERP. Want her to do the same magic for you? Hire her)
Corina Burri is an SEO consultant from ZĆ¼rich, Switzerland. Since 2021, she has been open-sourcing her knowledge about SEO on her blog and talks. Her articles have been featured in famous industry outlets such as SEOFOMO, Tech SEO Tips, and Rich Snippets from Traffic Think Thank. She also co-organizes the WordPress ZĆ¼rich Meetup. Corina works in English, German, Spanish, and French. Additionally, she socializes in Catalan, Italian and Swedish. (Corina finds it awkward to write in the third person on her own website. But she knows this will increase her chances of winning a Featured Snippet on the SERP. Want her to do the same magic for you? Hire her)
bucketfish.me
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Updated February 3, 2025
what i'm doing now ------------------ (this is a /now page. if you have a site, you should make one too!) updated 3 feb 2025 creation -------- currently working on glowkeeper! our steam page just went up a few days ago, so please wishlist :DDDD also working on swift student challenge 2025 submission, possible reforms to the webring, etc. * * * consumption ----------- still obsessed with cult of the lamb and alien stage. waiting to play neva. watching a lot of grian. reading the anthropocene reviewed. * * * misc ---- finished with high school and also uni applications!! waiting for results in march š¤
what i'm doing now ------------------ (this is a /now page. if you have a site, you should make one too!) updated 3 feb 2025 creation -------- currently working on glowkeeper! our steam page just went up a few days ago, so please wishlist :DDDD also working on swift student challenge 2025 submission, possible reforms to the webring, etc. * * * consumption ----------- still obsessed with cult of the lamb and alien stage. waiting to play neva. watching a lot of grian. reading the anthropocene reviewed. * * * misc ---- finished with high school and also uni applications!! waiting for results in march š¤
caleb.software
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Updated February 3, 2025
Hi, I'm Caleb. -------------- Iām a software engineer based near Washington, DC. I did my undergrad in CS at Purdue University and I currently work at Salesforce as a full stack engineer. Email Github LinkedIn Twitter ~/site/ Recent Posts ------------ 03 Feb 2025 Scraping Zillow For The Little Guys apartments #ruby 14 Aug 2024 Deploying A Go App On Apache hn reader #go #apache 26 Jul 2024 Categorizing Hacker News Posts hn reader #projects #web #go 27 Apr 2024 The Tilde Tragedy #ruby #linux #bash 27 Mar 2024 Publishing A Blog Series With Jekyll blog #jekyll #liquid 10 Nov 2023 CSS Paragraph Separators blog #web #css 29 Jun 2022 Self-Hosted Web Traffic Analytics #apache #ruby 10 Apr 2022 Delayed Messages on iOS #ios 07 Jan 2022 Unsubscribe Anyone From Chess.com #security 22 Sep 2021 The Dangers of Overloaded Constructors #java 12 Nov 2020 Death by a Thousand Queries #java #spring #sql
Hi, I'm Caleb. -------------- Iām a software engineer based near Washington, DC. I did my undergrad in CS at Purdue University and I currently work at Salesforce as a full stack engineer. Email Github LinkedIn Twitter ~/site/ Recent Posts ------------ 03 Feb 2025 Scraping Zillow For The Little Guys apartments #ruby 14 Aug 2024 Deploying A Go App On Apache hn reader #go #apache 26 Jul 2024 Categorizing Hacker News Posts hn reader #projects #web #go 27 Apr 2024 The Tilde Tragedy #ruby #linux #bash 27 Mar 2024 Publishing A Blog Series With Jekyll blog #jekyll #liquid 10 Nov 2023 CSS Paragraph Separators blog #web #css 29 Jun 2022 Self-Hosted Web Traffic Analytics #apache #ruby 10 Apr 2022 Delayed Messages on iOS #ios 07 Jan 2022 Unsubscribe Anyone From Chess.com #security 22 Sep 2021 The Dangers of Overloaded Constructors #java 12 Nov 2020 Death by a Thousand Queries #java #spring #sql
scotthelme.co.uk
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Updated February 3, 2025
Free Post Report URI Trillion with a T: Surpassing 2 Trillion Events Processed!šš -------------------------------------------------------------- Weāve just passed a monumental milestone: 2 trillion events processed through Report URI!!! Thatās 2,000,000,000,000 events for CSP, NEL, DMARC, and other browser-generated and...
Free Post Report URI Trillion with a T: Surpassing 2 Trillion Events Processed!šš -------------------------------------------------------------- Weāve just passed a monumental milestone: 2 trillion events processed through Report URI!!! Thatās 2,000,000,000,000 events for CSP, NEL, DMARC, and other browser-generated and...
aleckornblum.com
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Updated February 2, 2025
Updated: 2025-02-02 Sun What is this page? What I'm working on: aleckornblum.com; web programming; htmx ------------------------------------------------------------ I have been working obsessively on my website, https://www.aleckornblum.com, since late 2023. The book hypermedia.systems connected many dots of web programming for me. I read it while starting a Common Lisp web application using the Caveman web framework. The framework provides a default web app structure that was helpful in learning the basics of a hypermedia-based MVC web application. I came across the hypermedia.systems book because I had discovered HTMX in a web programming article on pagination. Once I understood that I could use it to avoid learning JavaScript, I was hooked. I had learned a little bit of JS during COVID but found it quite annoying to use. HTMX is a small JavaScript library that enhances HTML. It facilitates using the server to dynamically update content on the page without a full-page refresh. It can accomplish many common JavaScript-based UI's without any JavaScript. For many applications it can give SPA-comparable interactivity. I have finished the following UI's: * Parking Reminders * Weightlifting * Restaurant Ranking List * Bodyweight tracking * Shared Shopping Lists * Private tools just for meā¦ like Goal Tracking, a Calibre Content Server, a Feeds UI, and financial transaction monitoring. Next up is: * HTTP Data API for alternative client applications than browsers. This will be very useful for linking together my emacs plaintext accounting and the financial tracking UI. * A daily evaluations tool. * Some admin UI's to help me spread the site to others. My site also has static pages of documents I've written. I still need to make a useful sitemap. Or I might change to a minimalist blog tool for org-mode (like org-static-blog) to make things easier. I rediscovered pgAdmin for postgresql. Since I am running postgres in development and production, it's become a useful tool for me. The part I'm enjoying most is using it to graph the relationships in my database, plus for quickly bootstrapping example data when working on CRUD operations. Of course I work on them as RCDUā¦ What I'm listening to: Bible in a Year & Catechism in a Year, plus others ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since I am so obsessed with HTMX, of course I listened to every single scrap of content available online from the HTMX creator. I check the HTMX website daily for new content. Mainly, though, I'm listening through Fr. Schmitz's Bible in a Year to work. I have found the experience enlightening so far. I quite enjoy Fr. Mike's explanations of the Scriptures. However, that is made more powerful by how consistent I can be in listening to these on the way to work. I have made it much farther into the Old Testament than I ever have reading the book normally. After a while, I also picked up Fr. Schmitz's Catechism in a Year for the way home. These are also quite enlightening. I do not like how much Fr. Mike seems to repeat the words of the Catechism. He seems to say what they're gonna say, then he reads it, then he reviews each line one by one just repeating it's meaning. Unfortunately it's a far cry from the Bible in a Year, but of course the Scriptures and Catechism have a different feel to them. Despite my criticism, listening to the podcast has helped me understand much of Catholic belief already, and I look forward to continuing. What I'm reading: Great Books and leisure reading ------------------------------------------------- I have made myself a reading plan based on Mortimer J. Adler's list of Great Books of the West. I am splitting up the Old Testament into sections so that I get some variety. These books should be the main source of reference and permanent notes for my zettelkasten. On top of these I do have some leisure reading books. I've almost read the Lord of the Rings and Silmarillion intertwined. I finished Leviathan Wakes this year and am moving on to Caliban's War. ### Phase 1 Great Books Goal: * `[X]` Homer * `[X]` Iliad * `[X]` Odyssey * Old Testament Books: * `[X]` Genesis * `[X]` Exodus * Leviticus * Numbers * Deuteronomy * `[X]` Plato: * `[X]` Apology * `[X]` Symposium * `[X]` Phaedrus * `[X]` Phaedo * `[X]` Sophocles Theban Tragedies: * `[X]` King Oedipus * `[X]` Oedipus at Colonus * `[X]` Antigone * `[Ā ]` Ovid: Metamorphoses * `[-]` Shakespeare * `[X]` Macbeth * `[Ā ]` King Lear * `[Ā ]` Hamlet * `[Ā ]` The Federalist Papers ### Phase 2 Great Books Goal: * Old Testament * Joshua * Judges * Ruth * Kings 1 * Kings 2 * Plato * Sophist * Aristotle * Nichomachean Ethics * Sir Gawain and the Green Knight * Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors * Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn What I'm writing: zettelkasten notes ------------------------------------ I am not making a superb amount of progress on any particular writing project right now. However, writing zettelkasten notes is the precursor to writing excellence. I am writing reference notes and recording unique, atomic ideas in my electronic zettelkasten. Where I'm working: Lubrizol Bayport as Operations Technical Leader ------------------------------------------------------------------ I took a promotion this year to become a Production Superintendent at the Lubrizol Bayport, TX plant. It has been quite the learning experience and a bump in responsibility. I'm looking forward to rising to the challenge! We've been getting results and making improvements. We completed a turnaround and that was a great learning experience. We implemented an operator-centric daily tiered meeting schedule to solve problems encountered in the control room. I led the Standard Work reorganization and implementation as Asset Operations Champion leader. I am most excited about the improvements we made in filtration. It is quite fun to see results when you apply a good working principle for a piece of equipment. Another interesting fact is that I have taken to using the Lubrizol-provided low-code solution: Microsoft Power Apps. If you had told me this years ago I would probably have puked. However, the experience has taught me the benefits of using a technology the company truly supports (for a "citizen developer" like myself). I've also learned some of the benefits of a low-code solution. In particular, the low-code nature of it implies that it abstracts away boilerplate code into visual pieces. In particular, I think this means many aspects of the CRUD of an app are quite easy in low-code development. This is nice! Low-code development (oddly enough) seems to focus all coding that _is_ necessary to be business-logic development. Again, I never thought I would write or utter something like that when I started coding for my hobby!! It has been a time of great change at Lubrizol. The leadership of our new CEO has required all of us to become change agents. My boss knew as much would be true when he hired me. I am open minded in many things, and also quite conservative in temperament. I believe I can balance these things at work. It seems this has been a crucible for these two aspects of my personality, and does take its toll on me. What I'm learning: how to speak German (ich lerne Deutsch) ---------------------------------------------------------- I have always wanted to learn another language. It's something I can not at all imagine without doing it myself. Since I married the most wonderful woman in the world, Claudia Maria Krah (now Kornblum), and she speaks German, I've decided to take the dive into Deutsch. I started 150+ days ago with Duolingo and have added some other grammar studies in addition. Claudia and I try to speak German to one another just a little each day. Ich muss noch groĆen Fortschritt machen. How I'm staying healthy: weightlifting -------------------------------------- In the recent past I've practiced Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai, but I have put that on pause for the moment. I need to find a better schedule for myself if I'm going to pick that back up. Right now, I'm focused quite a lot on weightlifting. I built my own website, in part, to give myself a nice UI for tracking my weightlifting. Another thing I've focused on is sticking to my program. After completing , I realized the desire to keep a "streak" ongoing was fairly useful to reinforce daily action. So I programmed that into my website! Since then I've had an 80 day streak of workouts! Know, of course, that I allow myself one day of stretching (Sunday) to count towards streaks, as well as some Active Rest Days as needed for longevity. I can't control when I get sick!! I'm following Mark Rippetoe's book Practical Programming for Strength Training, in particular the section for intermediates called The Texas Method. It's been a difficult program, but the longer my streak the stronger I'm getting. It's effective!
Updated: 2025-02-02 Sun What is this page? What I'm working on: aleckornblum.com; web programming; htmx ------------------------------------------------------------ I have been working obsessively on my website, https://www.aleckornblum.com, since late 2023. The book hypermedia.systems connected many dots of web programming for me. I read it while starting a Common Lisp web application using the Caveman web framework. The framework provides a default web app structure that was helpful in learning the basics of a hypermedia-based MVC web application. I came across the hypermedia.systems book because I had discovered HTMX in a web programming article on pagination. Once I understood that I could use it to avoid learning JavaScript, I was hooked. I had learned a little bit of JS during COVID but found it quite annoying to use. HTMX is a small JavaScript library that enhances HTML. It facilitates using the server to dynamically update content on the page without a full-page refresh. It can accomplish many common JavaScript-based UI's without any JavaScript. For many applications it can give SPA-comparable interactivity. I have finished the following UI's: * Parking Reminders * Weightlifting * Restaurant Ranking List * Bodyweight tracking * Shared Shopping Lists * Private tools just for meā¦ like Goal Tracking, a Calibre Content Server, a Feeds UI, and financial transaction monitoring. Next up is: * HTTP Data API for alternative client applications than browsers. This will be very useful for linking together my emacs plaintext accounting and the financial tracking UI. * A daily evaluations tool. * Some admin UI's to help me spread the site to others. My site also has static pages of documents I've written. I still need to make a useful sitemap. Or I might change to a minimalist blog tool for org-mode (like org-static-blog) to make things easier. I rediscovered pgAdmin for postgresql. Since I am running postgres in development and production, it's become a useful tool for me. The part I'm enjoying most is using it to graph the relationships in my database, plus for quickly bootstrapping example data when working on CRUD operations. Of course I work on them as RCDUā¦ What I'm listening to: Bible in a Year & Catechism in a Year, plus others ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since I am so obsessed with HTMX, of course I listened to every single scrap of content available online from the HTMX creator. I check the HTMX website daily for new content. Mainly, though, I'm listening through Fr. Schmitz's Bible in a Year to work. I have found the experience enlightening so far. I quite enjoy Fr. Mike's explanations of the Scriptures. However, that is made more powerful by how consistent I can be in listening to these on the way to work. I have made it much farther into the Old Testament than I ever have reading the book normally. After a while, I also picked up Fr. Schmitz's Catechism in a Year for the way home. These are also quite enlightening. I do not like how much Fr. Mike seems to repeat the words of the Catechism. He seems to say what they're gonna say, then he reads it, then he reviews each line one by one just repeating it's meaning. Unfortunately it's a far cry from the Bible in a Year, but of course the Scriptures and Catechism have a different feel to them. Despite my criticism, listening to the podcast has helped me understand much of Catholic belief already, and I look forward to continuing. What I'm reading: Great Books and leisure reading ------------------------------------------------- I have made myself a reading plan based on Mortimer J. Adler's list of Great Books of the West. I am splitting up the Old Testament into sections so that I get some variety. These books should be the main source of reference and permanent notes for my zettelkasten. On top of these I do have some leisure reading books. I've almost read the Lord of the Rings and Silmarillion intertwined. I finished Leviathan Wakes this year and am moving on to Caliban's War. ### Phase 1 Great Books Goal: * `[X]` Homer * `[X]` Iliad * `[X]` Odyssey * Old Testament Books: * `[X]` Genesis * `[X]` Exodus * Leviticus * Numbers * Deuteronomy * `[X]` Plato: * `[X]` Apology * `[X]` Symposium * `[X]` Phaedrus * `[X]` Phaedo * `[X]` Sophocles Theban Tragedies: * `[X]` King Oedipus * `[X]` Oedipus at Colonus * `[X]` Antigone * `[Ā ]` Ovid: Metamorphoses * `[-]` Shakespeare * `[X]` Macbeth * `[Ā ]` King Lear * `[Ā ]` Hamlet * `[Ā ]` The Federalist Papers ### Phase 2 Great Books Goal: * Old Testament * Joshua * Judges * Ruth * Kings 1 * Kings 2 * Plato * Sophist * Aristotle * Nichomachean Ethics * Sir Gawain and the Green Knight * Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors * Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn What I'm writing: zettelkasten notes ------------------------------------ I am not making a superb amount of progress on any particular writing project right now. However, writing zettelkasten notes is the precursor to writing excellence. I am writing reference notes and recording unique, atomic ideas in my electronic zettelkasten. Where I'm working: Lubrizol Bayport as Operations Technical Leader ------------------------------------------------------------------ I took a promotion this year to become a Production Superintendent at the Lubrizol Bayport, TX plant. It has been quite the learning experience and a bump in responsibility. I'm looking forward to rising to the challenge! We've been getting results and making improvements. We completed a turnaround and that was a great learning experience. We implemented an operator-centric daily tiered meeting schedule to solve problems encountered in the control room. I led the Standard Work reorganization and implementation as Asset Operations Champion leader. I am most excited about the improvements we made in filtration. It is quite fun to see results when you apply a good working principle for a piece of equipment. Another interesting fact is that I have taken to using the Lubrizol-provided low-code solution: Microsoft Power Apps. If you had told me this years ago I would probably have puked. However, the experience has taught me the benefits of using a technology the company truly supports (for a "citizen developer" like myself). I've also learned some of the benefits of a low-code solution. In particular, the low-code nature of it implies that it abstracts away boilerplate code into visual pieces. In particular, I think this means many aspects of the CRUD of an app are quite easy in low-code development. This is nice! Low-code development (oddly enough) seems to focus all coding that _is_ necessary to be business-logic development. Again, I never thought I would write or utter something like that when I started coding for my hobby!! It has been a time of great change at Lubrizol. The leadership of our new CEO has required all of us to become change agents. My boss knew as much would be true when he hired me. I am open minded in many things, and also quite conservative in temperament. I believe I can balance these things at work. It seems this has been a crucible for these two aspects of my personality, and does take its toll on me. What I'm learning: how to speak German (ich lerne Deutsch) ---------------------------------------------------------- I have always wanted to learn another language. It's something I can not at all imagine without doing it myself. Since I married the most wonderful woman in the world, Claudia Maria Krah (now Kornblum), and she speaks German, I've decided to take the dive into Deutsch. I started 150+ days ago with Duolingo and have added some other grammar studies in addition. Claudia and I try to speak German to one another just a little each day. Ich muss noch groĆen Fortschritt machen. How I'm staying healthy: weightlifting -------------------------------------- In the recent past I've practiced Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai, but I have put that on pause for the moment. I need to find a better schedule for myself if I'm going to pick that back up. Right now, I'm focused quite a lot on weightlifting. I built my own website, in part, to give myself a nice UI for tracking my weightlifting. Another thing I've focused on is sticking to my program. After completing , I realized the desire to keep a "streak" ongoing was fairly useful to reinforce daily action. So I programmed that into my website! Since then I've had an 80 day streak of workouts! Know, of course, that I allow myself one day of stretching (Sunday) to count towards streaks, as well as some Active Rest Days as needed for longevity. I can't control when I get sick!! I'm following Mark Rippetoe's book Practical Programming for Strength Training, in particular the section for intermediates called The Texas Method. It's been a difficult program, but the longer my streak the stronger I'm getting. It's effective!
bnijenhuis.nl
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Updated February 2, 2025
About me -------- Bernard Nijenhuis ā¢ Front-end Developer ā¢ Katwijk, The Netherlands ā¢ Father of 3 kids ā¢ Husband to 1 wife ā¢ Owner of 1 cat You can find me on Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram, LinkedIn and GitHub. Most recent notes ----------------- These are the 5 most recent notes. You can check out all my notes or follow the feed of all my notes. * February 2, 2025 - Adding Prettier in Eleventy using Transforms * October 14, 2024 - User friendly dark mode * September 11, 2024 - Updating Eleventy...and more * September 5, 2024 - Minimize CLS caused by font loading * November 21, 2022 - Add verified links to your Mastodon profile
About me -------- Bernard Nijenhuis ā¢ Front-end Developer ā¢ Katwijk, The Netherlands ā¢ Father of 3 kids ā¢ Husband to 1 wife ā¢ Owner of 1 cat You can find me on Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram, LinkedIn and GitHub. Most recent notes ----------------- These are the 5 most recent notes. You can check out all my notes or follow the feed of all my notes. * February 2, 2025 - Adding Prettier in Eleventy using Transforms * October 14, 2024 - User friendly dark mode * September 11, 2024 - Updating Eleventy...and more * September 5, 2024 - Minimize CLS caused by font loading * November 21, 2022 - Add verified links to your Mastodon profile
proustquestionnaire.net
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Updated February 1, 2025
1:53 Our Trailer - Press Play and Learn About the Show! Proust Questionnaire Podcast ---------------------------- Interesting conversations with influential people. -------------------------------------------------- * Episodes * About the Podcast * The Hosts
1:53 Our Trailer - Press Play and Learn About the Show! Proust Questionnaire Podcast ---------------------------- Interesting conversations with influential people. -------------------------------------------------- * Episodes * About the Podcast * The Hosts
box.matto.nl
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Updated February 1, 2025
Updated: February 2025 This site is about my quest into open source software and unix-like operating systems. I like reading and writing, using open source software, coding in Lisp, using Gopher, riding a bicycle, and using IRC and Jabber (XMPP). I prefer plain text and use Emacs, vi, and ed. box.matto.nl ------------ box.matto.nl is my sub domain for personal stuff and is about things I have fun with, hoping others will share the same kind of enthusiasm. See also my now page en my uses page. Gopher site ----------- If you like plain text, you will like Gopher. There is also a Gopher site (also known as \`gopher hole') on box.matto.nl. Explore this with your favorite gopher client (or try lynx). Go to: gopher://box.matto.nl Codeberg -------- https://codeberg.org/mattof Fediverse --------- Contact me at: @mattof@functional.cafe Proud member of the 250kb club ------------------------------ box.matto.nl is a proud member of the 250kb.club See also the club-entry of box.matto.nl Proud member of the no-JS club ------------------------------ box.matto.nl is proud member of the no-JS.club. Proud member of the blogroll.club --------------------------------- box.matto.nl is proud member of the blogroll.club. Proud member of the bukmark.club -------------------------------- box.matto.nl is proud member of the bukmark.club. Hosted in Europe ---------------- This website runs in the Netherlands, in Europe. The content for this website is written in Markdown. The website is build with a home grown Common Lisp application, compiled with SBCL. IRC: `matto` on libera.chat Jabber: mattof@5222.de Fediverse: @mattof@functional.cafe You can contact me by email, my PGP-key is: 0x5DA4CDCE759F29F13EAA8BABF0A67BC632EE59A4 The fingerprint of the key is: `5DA4 CDCE 759F 29F1 3EAA 8BAB F0A6 7BC6 32EE 59A4` You can also download this key from https://box.matto.nl/0x5DA4CDCE759F29F13EAA8BABF0A67BC632EE59A4.asc * * * Made with ā„ by a human ā no cookies, no trackers. Proud member of the 250kb.club, the no-JS.club, the Blogroll.Club, and the Bukmark.Club. Donāt let a billionaireās algorithm control what you read ā use an RSS feed reader. Most recent pages All tags Sitemap RSS of Gophersite
Updated: February 2025 This site is about my quest into open source software and unix-like operating systems. I like reading and writing, using open source software, coding in Lisp, using Gopher, riding a bicycle, and using IRC and Jabber (XMPP). I prefer plain text and use Emacs, vi, and ed. box.matto.nl ------------ box.matto.nl is my sub domain for personal stuff and is about things I have fun with, hoping others will share the same kind of enthusiasm. See also my now page en my uses page. Gopher site ----------- If you like plain text, you will like Gopher. There is also a Gopher site (also known as \`gopher hole') on box.matto.nl. Explore this with your favorite gopher client (or try lynx). Go to: gopher://box.matto.nl Codeberg -------- https://codeberg.org/mattof Fediverse --------- Contact me at: @mattof@functional.cafe Proud member of the 250kb club ------------------------------ box.matto.nl is a proud member of the 250kb.club See also the club-entry of box.matto.nl Proud member of the no-JS club ------------------------------ box.matto.nl is proud member of the no-JS.club. Proud member of the blogroll.club --------------------------------- box.matto.nl is proud member of the blogroll.club. Proud member of the bukmark.club -------------------------------- box.matto.nl is proud member of the bukmark.club. Hosted in Europe ---------------- This website runs in the Netherlands, in Europe. The content for this website is written in Markdown. The website is build with a home grown Common Lisp application, compiled with SBCL. IRC: `matto` on libera.chat Jabber: mattof@5222.de Fediverse: @mattof@functional.cafe You can contact me by email, my PGP-key is: 0x5DA4CDCE759F29F13EAA8BABF0A67BC632EE59A4 The fingerprint of the key is: `5DA4 CDCE 759F 29F1 3EAA 8BAB F0A6 7BC6 32EE 59A4` You can also download this key from https://box.matto.nl/0x5DA4CDCE759F29F13EAA8BABF0A67BC632EE59A4.asc * * * Made with ā„ by a human ā no cookies, no trackers. Proud member of the 250kb.club, the no-JS.club, the Blogroll.Club, and the Bukmark.Club. Donāt let a billionaireās algorithm control what you read ā use an RSS feed reader. Most recent pages All tags Sitemap RSS of Gophersite
box.matto.nl
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Updated February 1, 2025
This is another now page. A now page is a kind of ersatz finger-page. February 2025 ------------- This page is updated in February, 2025. ### Current project I am converting my Emacs config into a literate org file. The Elisp code will be extracted by org-babel into a few configuration files. ### Writing Still working as a freelance technical writer, and writing articles for the Dutch Linux Magazine I love Gopher and post on my Gopher burrow on a regular basis, see: gopher://box.matto.nl I post more occasionally on this blog. ### Reading Currently reading: * There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness by Carlo Rovelli * Pattern Recognition by William Gibson ### Learning * Coding in Elisp * Coding in SBCL Common Lisp ### Playing * Coding in Elisp and Common Lisp Using ----- See also my Uses page. * * * Made with ā„ by a human ā no cookies, no trackers. Proud member of the 250kb.club, the no-JS.club, the Blogroll.Club, and the Bukmark.Club. Donāt let a billionaireās algorithm control what you read ā use an RSS feed reader. Most recent pages All tags Sitemap RSS of Gophersite
This is another now page. A now page is a kind of ersatz finger-page. February 2025 ------------- This page is updated in February, 2025. ### Current project I am converting my Emacs config into a literate org file. The Elisp code will be extracted by org-babel into a few configuration files. ### Writing Still working as a freelance technical writer, and writing articles for the Dutch Linux Magazine I love Gopher and post on my Gopher burrow on a regular basis, see: gopher://box.matto.nl I post more occasionally on this blog. ### Reading Currently reading: * There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness by Carlo Rovelli * Pattern Recognition by William Gibson ### Learning * Coding in Elisp * Coding in SBCL Common Lisp ### Playing * Coding in Elisp and Common Lisp Using ----- See also my Uses page. * * * Made with ā„ by a human ā no cookies, no trackers. Proud member of the 250kb.club, the no-JS.club, the Blogroll.Club, and the Bukmark.Club. Donāt let a billionaireās algorithm control what you read ā use an RSS feed reader. Most recent pages All tags Sitemap RSS of Gophersite
ellyloel.com
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Updated February 1, 2025
* Now * Next * Someday * Log * Weeks An on & off log of what Iām currently doing/interested in. Slower paced than a twitter feed but less permanent then an about page. Now pages are becoming more common, you should make one for yourself! Last update (Febuary, 2025) --------------------------- I was interviewed for the Lookaheadās āDucks in a Rowā newsletter. It was great fun, I love answering questions lol. Still tinkering with the structural overhaul of the website. Also lots of tidying up and just removing general cruft, like updating dependencies, removing unneeded dependencies, etc. (Finally on 11ty v3! š) Helped Brodie table at Kaiga Anime Convention.
* Now * Next * Someday * Log * Weeks An on & off log of what Iām currently doing/interested in. Slower paced than a twitter feed but less permanent then an about page. Now pages are becoming more common, you should make one for yourself! Last update (Febuary, 2025) --------------------------- I was interviewed for the Lookaheadās āDucks in a Rowā newsletter. It was great fun, I love answering questions lol. Still tinkering with the structural overhaul of the website. Also lots of tidying up and just removing general cruft, like updating dependencies, removing unneeded dependencies, etc. (Finally on 11ty v3! š) Helped Brodie table at Kaiga Anime Convention.
jasonmarkow.com
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Updated February 1, 2025
* Auctioned a one of a kind digital animation that fully lives and renders within the Bitcoin blockchain. * 10 works from the āThings We Say We Sawā collection was shown in May 2025 at the prestigious London based auction house. * 10 pieces from the āThings We Say We Sawā collection was showcased at the House of Fine Art in London. * Released, exhibited, and sold out a 25 piece collection called FRAY under the pseudonym āPHRAZEā at NFT Paris in February 2025. * 10 pieces from the āThings We Say We Sawā collection was showcased at the JRNY Gallery during F1 week.
* Auctioned a one of a kind digital animation that fully lives and renders within the Bitcoin blockchain. * 10 works from the āThings We Say We Sawā collection was shown in May 2025 at the prestigious London based auction house. * 10 pieces from the āThings We Say We Sawā collection was showcased at the House of Fine Art in London. * Released, exhibited, and sold out a 25 piece collection called FRAY under the pseudonym āPHRAZEā at NFT Paris in February 2025. * 10 pieces from the āThings We Say We Sawā collection was showcased at the JRNY Gallery during F1 week.
kevinclelland.com
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Updated February 1, 2025
Theme: Health What: Basic Strength Training Description: Pausing my triathlon training to reset the body and focus on strength training and mobility. Timeline: 01 January 2025 Theme: Coding What: Foundit Description: Building a web and native app for Stellenbosch students.. Timeline: December 2024 - Present
Theme: Health What: Basic Strength Training Description: Pausing my triathlon training to reset the body and focus on strength training and mobility. Timeline: 01 January 2025 Theme: Coding What: Foundit Description: Building a web and native app for Stellenbosch students.. Timeline: December 2024 - Present
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