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Mar 21, 2021 from William Lyon's Blog

Building A Responsive Navigation Bar And Podcast Episode Feed With The Chakra UI React Component Library

Building A GRANDstack Podcast App: Episode 5

Mar 20, 2021 from Nadav Ami

Mounting HFS+ Drives on Ubuntu

As part of a little home server I’ve been building, I wanted to reuse some old mac hard drives I had laying around. Before reusing the drives, I was really curious to see what was on them. In order...

Mar 19, 2021 from micheal@ecliptik.com

Vaporwave in Pocket C.H.I.P. Framebuffer

Intro In the ever expanding ways to hack my Pocket C.H.I.P., and my recent discovery of Vaporwave, I couldn’t help but combine the two and have a looping music video device on my desktop. Note this...

Mar 14, 2021 from Max Brenner

How to waste money using Kubernetes

Kubernetes enables you to do a lot. Orchestrating your application deployments, seamlessly integrating with public cloud services, distributing workload across thousand of nodes or simply generatin...

Mar 12, 2021 from micheal@ecliptik.com

Running dnscrypt-proxy on OpenBSD

Intro A couple of weeks ago I took a spare RaspberryPi 3 leftover from my old k3s cluster and installed OpenBSD on it using my Pocket C.H.I.P.. While getting it installed was fun, I wanted to do mo...

Mar 11, 2021 from Nadav Ami

What (Not) to Do When You're Missing a Keyboard

Yesterday, I was building a little home server out of some spare parts or I was until I hit a bit of a roadblock. When it came time to install the OS (Ubuntu Server in this case), I realized I didn...

Mar 10, 2021 from HunterDavis.com

Johnny Castaway Native Live CD

Once again, I am reminded of how much the past influences our future, and the choices we make. In my case, it’s a twisty tale that starts simply enough, but ends with Johnny Castaway running native...

Mar 08, 2021 from seize the dev

How to Break Software

A guide on how to break software with no special tools.

Mar 06, 2021 from Nadav Ami

Attempting to Spoof an iPod with an OrangePi Zero

This is the third part of a series on spoofing an iPod for car stereo shenanigans. You can find part 1 here or part 2 here. In the previous part, I found out that my car stereo is trying to talk to...

Mar 06, 2021 from Hugo’s Blog

Disabling comments

This is post number 3 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge. View all posts or subscribe via RSS. I’ve disabled comments, again. I was using Disqus comments, but removed them due to privacy concerns ...

Mar 03, 2021 from micheal@ecliptik.com

CHIP Serial Console

Intro Since getting a Pocket C.H.I.P, I’m looking for more ways to use it outside the original configuration, and came across a Hackernoon post on using a CHIP as a serial console. I also wanted to...

Mar 02, 2021 from PREPEND

What does data ownership really mean?

I’m really interested in privacy and how my data are collected, used, stored and just in general exists. While I think of my data as mine, the more I think about it, the hazier I am. I think defini...

Feb 26, 2021 from Nadav Ami

Inspecting an iPhone’s HTTPS Traffic

Recently, I wanted to see how an app on my phone was making API calls. The Montreal INFO-Neige app tracks the status of plowed streets around the city and I wanted to see if could use the data for ...

Feb 24, 2021 from micheal@ecliptik.com

Pocket C.H.I.P.

Intro Recently I got a Pocket C.H.I.P. with the idea of making it mini terminal on my desk, displaying things like weather, new email, new mastodon toots, etc. It comes pre-loaded with some basic s...

Feb 23, 2021 from ~hedy

How this site works

2023 Update I started writing this post on 2021, February 23 but I never completed it. So in 2023 I decided to finish up this outstanding post and get it done with. Surprisingly, the content did no...

Feb 22, 2021 from Remains of the Day

American Idle

I promised one final piece on TikTok, focused primarily on the network effects of creativity. And this is that, in part. But it discusses a bunch of other topics, some only tangentially related to ...

Feb 15, 2021 from micheal@ecliptik.com

Custom Keyboards, Sully and Pok3r

Intro Working in the tech industry and having geeky hobbies; I’ve always taken my tools, both hardware and software, seriously. For some reason I never thought about the keyboard itself though, and...

Feb 14, 2021 from Nadav Ami

Getting Back Into Blogging

Writing is hard. Writing consistently is even harder. Here’s a list of things I’m doing to motivate myself to get back into writing and posting regularly. Time will tell if it works. Perfect is the...

Feb 11, 2021 from Nadav Ami

Hyundai iPod Cable Reverse Engineering

This is the second part of a series on spoofing an iPod for car stereo shenanigans. You can read part 1 here. Before being able to spoof an iPod, my first step was to figure out how the car talks t...

Feb 11, 2021 from Max Brenner

AWS EC2 launch configurations vs launch templates

At first sight AWS launch configurations and templates may seem very similar. Both allow you to define a blueprint for EC2 instances. Let’s have a look at their differences and see which one we sho...