MacAD.UK Presentation (with notes) on Extensions
I’ve been working on this presentation for a long time, so it was awesome to get the first chunk of it out there. Then I saw Graham Pugh publish his with presenter notes included and was like “oh...
View ArticleGoogle Cloud Function to convert JSON to YAML
This function takes JSON data as an input, uses the json and yaml modules to convert JSON data to YAML and then returns with the YAML. Deploy the function, as a Python 3.7 runtime, pasting the...
View ArticleHTTP Success and Error Codes
When you make a request to a web server, the server will respond with a status code. The status code indicates whether the request was successful or not, and if not, what the error was. There are lots...
View ArticleDetect Deepfakes and Hacked Audio Programmatically
Deepfakes are a type of synthetic media where a person replaces parts of an image or video with something else, like someone’s likeness. The act of creating deepfakes is known as deepfakery. Deepfakes...
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Regulation And Coexistence With AI
I’ve been writing little machine learning and AI bits of code for a pretty long time and while I’m not very good at it, I feel like the one thing I’ve learned is not to look for what I want to see....
View ArticleUsing Viruses For Good
I get prompted any time one of my books is cited in legitimate research journals. A group of Kuwaiti researchers wrote a paper that, to quote the researchers, finds that “In a nutshell, this research...
View ArticlePython script to identify CIDR notation
It’s not uncommon to expect CIDR notation vs an IP address in a script (e.g. one that’s being passed to another API. So the following script is an example of using the re module to identify if an...
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New App TestFairy Writes Unit Tests With AI
I just posted a new app to GitHub called TestFairy. It’s at https://github.com/krypted/TestFairy. It automatically generates unit tests for either a file or a highlighted piece of swift code. It does...
View ArticlePenn State and MacAD.UK Presentations
Working on presentations is always fun! Here are two that I’m giving this summer. The first is part one of a deck on Extensions Management (and more on the past of managing them). That was delivered...
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Our Journey To A Quantum-Safe Secret Manager
Once upon a time, when the COVID was upon us, I retreated into my lab to write a book on the history of computing. I was fortunate, privileged, and delighted to get the chance to interview some of the...
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3D Printable Banana Stand
Here’s a design I just published to print a simple banana stand. Thinking of you, Sweden (see ya’ soon)! https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6191695
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Bucky The Badgerfolk (Mustie) Ranger
Published this design to Thingiverse for that special spot in the venn diagram – people who went to the University of Wisconsin, play D&D, and like to 3D print your minis. His name is Bucky. See...
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Hadozee Monk .stl
Just posted this Hadozee Monk to Thingiverse For those who are playing with simian-inspired characters, here’s a Hadozee monk (or humanoid monk-ey hybrid). This one was going for more of an Eastern...
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Cha’pa (Beaverfolk) Fighter stl
Here’s a Cha’pa (Beaverfolk) Fighter I just posted on Thingiverse A friend saw the badger I made and went to Oregon State, sooooooo… I guess Go Beavers! But also, the Spelljammer Dungeons &...
View ArticleInstall and Setup mongodb on a Mac
I don’t write as much about what I do at my day job as I used to. I probably should, because it’s all still relavant to my older readers. One example of that is that I have published a lot of articles...
View ArticleMacSysAdmin Keynote Deck
Just finished delivering the keynote for MacSysAdmin with Joel Rennich and how wonderful it is to see so many wonderful people who I’ve missed getting to hang out with in person for years! Here’s the...
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100+ New Blog Posts Now Available
Sometimes I disappear for a bit to work on this project or that. But I tend to always be writing. I’m not sure if I’d classify it as an addiction at this point, or what… But there’s always something...
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Bulldog Barbarian .stl To 3D Print
Should you want to print a Bulldog Barbarian… Here’s one. Best paints would be Dragon Red from Army Painter and Maxx Darth (black) from Green Stuff World. But I’m biased about such things… Been...
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Native Swift .stl and .obj converter
Just posted this little project to script batch processing of .stl to .obj or vice versa. It’s uncompiled so requires Xcode to build and run, but is fast and efficient because it uses the native...
View ArticleA deeper dive into AR graphics and how we got here
Posted this at https://www.secretchest.io/post/a-deeper-dive-into-augmented-reality-graphics-and-how-we-got-here but thought I’d throw it in here too. <3
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