So this is going to get a bit meta, but I was browsing randomnoun.com this afternoon and noticed I haven’t updated it since December last year, which is

A partially successful attempt to MITM the TV Right well I finally got around to getting a “smart” TV, i.e. a TV that is capable of detecting what

Here’s a stored procedure which generates PIVOT (or crosstab) queries in MySQL, sort of like what you used to be able to do in Microsoft Access, before everything

So as a nerd I need to have a website, and as a nerd who’s been on the net for a while, I’ve had a few fantastic ideas

Well I got another NAS the other day, so I decided to reconfigure most of my kubernetes (k8s) stuff to use that, and hell, why not upgrade it

I’ve produced some more software. This one creates diagrams of query execution plans for MySQL.

Q) what is authentication A) identifying who you are Philosophical tangent on who you really are, anyway So how do you define ‘who you are’ ? Many philosopher

Joining the dots So it turns out that a lot of people are incapable of reading, or if they can read, to actually absorb the information in that

So following on from ‘every piece of software eventually becomes microsoft office’ post, one day you’ll find yourself reimplementing powerpoint. You’ll be doing this in javascript and html,

Some guy who spouts aphorisms and the occasional web browser once said that “all software expands until it is capable of sending emails”. And a not insignificant number