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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.

The things I’ll do to avoid learning LaTeX…

Do you prefer Markdown to LaTeX?

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