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Presenting a simple template to develop, publish, and test a simple C# service backend on AWS, with serverless Lambda functions, supported by DynamoDb, behind an API Gateway, and protected by Cognito auth.
It took me 3 weeks to complete the day 11 puzzle for Advent of Code on a BBC Micro this year, and you’d be hard pressed to describe my solution as “proportionate” or “necessary”…
Consensus Chess is going through some beta testing on Mastodon, and you can play today!
I’ve been working on a pet project recently: Consensus games are a fun new way to play together through social media…
A few days ago we had a call from one of the most sophisticated phishing attacks I’ve experienced…
It’s possible to share a secret amongst a group of people so that only some of them are needed to reconstruct it…
More commonly known as a Dead Man’s Switch, a Dead Person Switch (DPS) is a system that can hold a secret on behalf of a person, and govern its release should they become unavailable.
_Art is fun and hard and messy and complicated and like every other trade it’s full of people who are earnestly showing you what they created (sprinkled with a few jokers).
Just recently I have been exploring a very strange issue: My application couldn’t find a tool that was right where it should be…
I am hoping to interview some investigative journalists for my masters thesis at the University of Oxford.