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...
Feb 09, 2021 from micheal@ecliptik.com Launching a Gemini Capsule Gemawhat? Even since I started using Mastodon a couple of weeks ago, Project Gemini is one of the most exciting new technologies I’ve discovered in my local feed. I won’t go into full detail on wha...
Feb 05, 2021 from Max Brenner My first month of self-employment my way towards self-employment In November 2020 I decided to take a huge personal step. I quit my beloved job and started my journey in becoming an independent freelancer. During the previous five ...
Feb 01, 2021 from Nadav Ami My First Open Source Project - 11.5 Years Later This past weekend I was digging through an old hard drive when I came across a piece of software I wrote a while ago. In fact, it’s the very first thing I ever opensourced. In the spirit of writing...
Jan 31, 2021 from Karl Bartel's Website Adding Gemini Support With Just a Few Lines of Code Adding Gemini Support With Just a Few Lines of Code The Gemini protocol nicely matches my preference for simplicity, so I want to start providing content for it to show my support. The first step f...
Jan 31, 2021 from Karl Bartel's Website Adding Gemini Support With Just a Few Lines of Code Adding Gemini Support With Just a Few Lines of Code The Gemini protocol nicely matches my preference for simplicity, so I want to start providing content for it to show my support. The first step f...
Jan 29, 2021 from Nadav Ami Hacking My Car Stereo (Part 1) I like my car, probably more then anyone should like a 2012 Hyundai Elantra. In 2021 terms it’s not the most technologically advance thing but it does most of what I need. While driving, I use my p...
Jan 24, 2021 from William Lyon's Blog Getting Started With Next.js and GraphQL Authentication Building A GRANDstack Podcast App: Episode 4
Jan 18, 2021 from Max Brenner Kubernetes operators with Python #2: Implementing Controller Introduction This post is the second part of a little blog series in which we are going through the complete process of implementing our own Kubernetes operator with Python. Previously we had a loo...
Jan 13, 2021 from Max Brenner Kubernetes operators with Python #1: Creating CRDs Introduction A lot of the core processes happening in a Kubernetes cluster are following the so called controller pattern. This pattern describes an ongoing monitoring of resources and reacting app...
Jan 09, 2021 from William Lyon's Blog Parsing And Importing XML With Neo4j: Adding Episodes and Playlists To GRANDcast.FM Podcast App Building A GRANDstack Podcast App: Episode 3
Jan 06, 2021 from Karl Bartel's Website Tcl as a Shell Scripting Replacement Tcl as a Shell Scripting Replacement Summary: I got interested in the old scripting language Tcl, rewrote my blog generator in it as an exercise and compare it to shell scripting. Motivation Every ...
Jan 06, 2021 from Karl Bartel's Website Tcl as a Shell Scripting Replacement Tcl as a Shell Scripting Replacement Summary: I got interested in the old scripting language Tcl, rewrote my blog generator in it as an exercise and compare it to shell scripting. Motivation Every ...
