When I was younger, I worked with my dad on a project he was doing for his job. He is a Physics teacher and he had received a grant to write a new curriculum unit for teaching radioactivity and radiat…
Namecoin is an old crypto-currency, one of the original forks of Bitcoin. It still exists today and has good security, primarily because it can be merge-mined with Bitcoin. This means that Namecoin…
I like to say that I "grew up" using Git GUI applications. When I started using Git, I was a novice programmer, and the Git Command Line Interface infuriated me. These days, I have more re…
At the end of this year, I will be saying goodbye to my current employer and exchanging contact information with many of the great people who I have called my colleagues, mentors, and teammates over t…
I have a node.js application that is talking HTTPS with some server I don't have access to... How can I capture the traffic so that I can see the contents of the requests and responses? Yes, this has…
I have a Java application that is talking HTTPS with some server I don't have access to... How can I capture the traffic so that I can see the contents of the requests and responses? This post is Par…
UPDATE 2018-07-24: It looks like the go project has come up with a new dependency management specification called "Modules" as a part of Go 1.11! https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules T…
For those times when you want to easily host a file on the Internet but you also want control over its Content-Type header. picopublish…
When Virtual Machine virtualization and linux container virtualization are being used at the same time, it can become difficult to transfer a file from a remote machine in a oneliner. I created this s…
https://pwm.sequentialread.com/ A simple, fault-tolerant, and easy-to-audit password manager. https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/sequentialread-password-manager Mobile Device Support Better beh…
This came up while I was helping a developer debug their service. The kafka shell tools are functional, but not super well documented or easy to use. This tail -n 10 type use case is insanely diffic…
In my previous post Pragmatic Path Towards Non-technical Users Owning Their Own Data I talked about how hard it is to host web applications on your own hardware, at home, or on a mobile device such as…
