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December 4, 2018
Network Wide Ad Blocker (Pi-hole)

Network Wide Ad Blocker (Pi-hole)

(This was a blog post that I originally wrote on my good friend tek’s blog which can be found here: http://teklordz.net/pihole I decided to move this over to my blog to consolidate and preserve it here.) Ads… whether they are necessary/good or pure evil is outside the scope of this article. One thing that can be …

August 16, 2018
How I keep track of time with my NFC implant

How I keep track of time with my NFC implant

I recently got an NFC implant in my hand while I was attending Defcon, the famous computer security conference. Originally I did not have any one specific purpose in mind but thought that I could figure something cool to do with it. At the very least I would put my contact info on it or …

February 9, 2018
Fixing Localization settings in Ubuntu

Fixing Localization settings in Ubuntu

I had some problems installing certain python, as well as system, packages due to my VPS not having proper localization settings. The problem I was having was the following: I did some Googling but couldn’t find anything that would work. Finally I found out that you can re-generate your localization settings by typing sudo locale-gen …

January 22, 2018
How to make a portable LED backpack sign!

How to make a portable LED backpack sign!

This post is going to be broken up into a few different parts. I really try to go in depth in this post and spill all the secrets to the project. I use a lot of ()’s throughout the post and these should be read as side notes. These are to add a little bit …

January 9, 2018
The Crypto- Keepers Thoughts

The Crypto- Keepers Thoughts

I recently read an article about how the FBI tried to payoff a developer of Telegram. It can be found here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-crypto-keepers-levine  Some really interesting points and stories were brought up in the article. One of them was, as previously stated, of the FBI coming and talking to the founder of telegraph and a developer who …

December 2, 2017
Hello Future Employer

Hello Future Employer

If you are reading this, that means you are either an employer or a random passer by. Hello to both of you! To find out more information about me please go to my linkedin for work experience and relevant experiences. If you would like to see some examples of my code please go to my github where …

October 19, 2017
Moving over to HTTPS

Moving over to HTTPS

As of writing this post, the entire site has moved over to https using https://letsencrypt.org/ as the key signer and https://certbot.eff.org/ as the software to help configure the certificates. Unfortunately it was not as easy as it was made out to be, but that is partially my fault. I currently host this site on Vultr (that is my Vultr …

October 12, 2017
My first attempt at low poly art

My first attempt at low poly art

So I have been thinking of what to post as my first real piece of content here. I finally decided on the process and lessons learned from making my first low polygon picture. This is the result of about 8 hours of work. I intend to build off the initial tutorial and provide some important …

September 21, 2017
“Hello World”

“Hello World”

“Hello World” As the tradition of making any first program you learn in a new programming language print out “Hello World”, I too shall keep with the tradition. This is the first post on my site *insert party popper emoji here*. I tend to keep the topics to programming and technology. This site is mainly …

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