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The rocketship template 🚀

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.

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8-bit Supercomputer

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”…

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International Consensus Chess is in public beta!

Consensus Chess is going through some beta testing on Mastodon, and you can play today!

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International Consensus Games (WIP)

I’ve been working on a pet project recently: Consensus games are a fun new way to play together through social media…

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A rather so-phish-ticated scam

A few days ago we had a call from one of the most sophisticated phishing attacks I’ve experienced…

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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.