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So I decided to finally sit down and check out Rust, as it’s a language that’s gaining a large amount of traction and generating buzz for…

My day to day grind at the moment has been configuring new environments as we have new work coming in. I’ve done it enough at this point…

As I alluded to in my bitboard rant a little while ago, I’ve been working on a chess game in my own time. I’ve had a few realisations while…

The current quiet tech battle being fought is against Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts, or FLoC, which Google is pushing as its…

Create an AWS EC2 AMI and deploy it with Cloudformation

So something interesting I spotted this week was a tool called Endgame. Originally announced by Salesforce, the tool was pulled by the time…

Making Gatsby properly build a page using the FullCalendar component

I’ve always had a fascination with chess, and indeed I played and won trophies for it in school. Long gone are my glory days, however, and I…

Came across something curious in my investigation into why I had a couple of Cloudwatch alarms going off. Like clockwork, every six hours I…

Naturally with any large organisation, they’re only going to be interested in your software if you make it easy for them to integrate it…

Once again, I talk about how I'm changing around my blog

How to use IAM to connect clients to RDS

A Cloudformation template to spin up an API gateway application authenticated by a Cognito user pool

Been a bit slack on updating this blog, so to make up for it I slapped together a quick and dirty application to tunnel through EC…

I just spent a good month wrangling ECS Fargate deployments with a ton of cloudformation to boot. I’m going to outline the stupid things I…

Forgive the rambly nature of this blog entry, just trying to set my own thoughts straight a little bit. This isn’t intended for anyone else…

UPDATE Feb 20, 2021 I checked my Google search console and realised that most of my traffic comes in through here. Here’s the summary for…

I’ve long been in favour of flexible work policies that allow remote work where possible. While there are many benefits in face to face…

Ever wanted to know how you should get your tooling set up to make testing easier? Start here

First look at Black Hat Go by Tom Steele, Chris Patten and Dan Kottman

How to use and synchronise go routines

I currently work for a company that deals in call centre software, and until this point I hadn’t really started looking into the VOIP side…

Make your Cloudformation scripts better with parameters and mappings

Recently, it’s become apparent at work that we should probably have skeletons in place to make it easier to get a new AWS service up and…

How to assume roles using the AWS SDK

In this blog entry, I'll show you how to set up your first Cloudformation stack

I created a minds.com profile, because I hate Twitter and refuse to use it. You can find me on there as @threetoes

Happy new year! I’ve been busy visiting family for the last little bit, so haven’t had a lot of time to write blogs. Today I’m going to show…

Something that took my interest at GopherConAU this year was Steve O’Connor’s talk The Fyne GUI Toolkit, where he showcased what Fyne was…

So I’ve been getting some intriguing emails lately, featuring auto replies from contact us forms saying thank you for your message. Finally…

How to write an ARP poisoner in python

How to write a network scanner in python

Writing an SSH proxy in python

Using Paramiko to remotely control a server

Writing a TCP proxy in python

First order of business is updating the netcat replacement Seitz has written so it works again. My code is here The issues Simply put our…

I’ve been working through the book Black Hat Python, and it’s got some good code recipes, but the code doesn’t really work as is. I’m…

Have you been stuck for tech interview ideas? I’ve had a lot of chats with people about this as of late (don’t really know why, I’ve never…

Having issues with Tumblr, time to move again. Luckily I learned about Gatsby and markdown driven static sites, so I’m going to give this a…