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Secrets With Friends

It’s possible to share a secret amongst a group of people so that only some of them are needed to reconstruct it…

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Dead Person Switches - secrets from beyond the grave

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.

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Rainbow paws

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).

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TIL - shell environment variables aren't available to OS X apps

Just recently I have been exploring a very strange issue: My application couldn’t find a tool that was right where it should be…

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Dead Person Switches - appeal for journalists

I am hoping to interview some investigative journalists for my masters thesis at the University of Oxford.

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A template thesis to simplify your write-up

The things I’ll do to avoid learning LaTeX… Do you prefer Markdown to LaTeX?

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Making the best possible referrals

The Data Standards Authority are holding an open challenge to discover and set a new data standard for vulnerable people services.

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Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 6: Triggers

In part 5, we amended our Lambda to write to an S3 bucket; and in this part, we’ll explore triggers to run it regularly.

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Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 5: S3

In previous parts, we’ve built a Lambda that can query the OpenWeather API, using a secret key; and in this part we’ll extend it to write that data to S3.

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Building an AWS Lambda in C#, part 4: Logs

In part 3, we extended our Lambda to communicate with an API, using a secret key; and in this part, we’ll explore the logs created when the Lambda runs.