Migrating web services onto Docker containers which will now be running on my shiny new M1 powered Mac Mini …

My Raspberry Pi-based dashcam. Done!

Had lots of fun with the 3D printer and acquired new technical vocabulary which I’m pretty sure I won’t need again. As for reverse engineering the drideOS software on which my cam is based to add additional features such as GPS tracking and 4G to live stream video to my RTMP server, I don’t think Mei has ever heard such colourful vocabulary coming from my sweet mouth 🙂

3D Printer ordered – looking forward to the 2 hours of assembly … not!

Just spent the morning ‘tidying up’ my login credentials after receiving an email from HIBP about the Cit0day breach. Have I Been Pwned is a service that alerts you when your identity (login credentials) has been found/leaked either in the open or the Deep/Dark web – see https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-cit0day-breach-collection/

But if, like me, you don’t use a password manager, working out which sites you have an account on and which email address you used for that account, can be a real PITA, even for cyber security professional 🙂 Fortunately, I am a Mac user, so getting that list of sites and then matching them to the 23,000+ sites in the Cit0day list was less painful – thanks to marcotini’s Applescript for looping through Safari’s password cache which you can find on GitHub – see https://github.com/marcotini/Get_Safari13_Passwords

Then it’s just a case of running your favourite RE tool like ‘grep’ to see which passwords corresponding to a matched leaked site you need to change …
https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-cit0day-breach-collection/

Thanks to some great feedback, I’ve simplified the flavour/taste model so that is dynamically generated rather than relying on a static English only bitmap … which means I can now start working on porting the iWine app to French and Spanish 🙂

After a couple of months of head bashing, I’m pleased to announce that my iWine app (for iPhones and iPads only) is ready for public testing … As a reminder, what it does is to make wine buying or selection less of a hit and miss affair. It does this by letting you set preference flavours for 6 types of wines (red, white, rosé, sparkling, dessert and fortified) so that when you search for a wine at the supermarket or sat down in front of an intimidating wine list in a restaurant, it fetches back the flavours people mentioned in reviews and returns a % match to your stated preferred flavours – a higher % means it is more probable that you will like it. The app also has a tasting record which remembers when and where you tasted a wine and a cellar function to help you keep an inventory of what you have got stashed away and its value for insurance purposes … which in my household won’t be a problem since nothing gets laid down long enough 🙂

Anyway, if any of you are interested, message me with your UDID so that I can include your iPhone/iPad in the list of development team and you can get the app for free! Best way to find your UDID is to open up iTunes and click on the serial number.

After months of copper rubbish, the village has finally entered the 21st Century …

After hours struggling with OAuth 2.0 in the new IOS 12 shortcuts app, I can now ask Siri to chat to the Mercedes API and ask how much fuel is left in the car … yeah I know … I could have just walked to the car and checked myself but where is the fun in that 🙂

will go nuts if i stare at another API method to crowd source perfume data … developing an online smell business, what do you all think?

http://www.aromkit.com/

Home cinema … Done 🙂