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My Smart Home Mistakes

2025-07-12

On the whole, my smart home is something I am quite pleased with. However, there have certainly been some lessons learned whilst building it.

Passwords Most Fowl

2024-12-26

If you’re like me, some of yesterday (Christmas 2024) was spent watching the new Wallace and Gromit. I wonder if like me it also got you thinking about password managers.

I Got a Van

2024-08-24

I’ve bought a van. I’m planning on converting it to a camper and documenting the process here.

Setting a good Content Security Policy

2024-08-22

Setting a good CSP can be hard. Here I go through what it is, and how to set it up well.

My New Home - Alarm Clock

2023-02-26

Part 2 of my new home setup. I discuss a Lenovo clock I got.

My New Home - Network

2023-02-08

I recently bought a new House. In this post, I discuss my network setup as part of a series of posts about the setup.

I Got a Robot Vacuum

2022-12-31

I recently bought a Robot vacuum. I have been amazed how good it is.

Why can't I buy a dumb TV?

2022-12-31

Dumb TVs don’t appear to be a thing anymore. I wonder why?

Multipart Emails in Neomutt

2022-05-27

Mutt now supports multipart email. I guess it will be easy to set it up right?

XSS Through the Referer Header

2021-10-14

In this blog post, I document how I achieved reflected XSS though a malicious http header.

Writing Prose in Vim

2021-10-06

Vim is a popular text editor among programmers, it is not limited to programming though. In this blog I will discuss how I write just about everything in vim

Before you start with Home Assistant

2021-03-19

I use Home Assistant for my home automation setup. I plan do write some more blogs about it in the future. This is supposed to help those out who are considering starting out. It is not supposed to be a setup guide, rather some things to consider before starting out.

My Setup at the beginning of 2021

2021-01-08

How I work at the beginning of 2021

Enumerating Users on WordPress

2020-09-05

Finding valid usernames can significantly improve your chances of breaking into a WordPress account. In this blog post I cover some of the methods I use to find valid users and how you can protect your own site against them.

Upgrading reverse shells

2020-06-01

Once you’ve got a reverse shell, there are a number of things you can do to make it nicer to work with. I go through those and at the end, automate the annoying bit with zsh.

Current Word Completion

2020-05-26

ZSH’s tab completion is excellent, although limited to completing based on your command. With this, I can also make completions based on my current word.

My Email Setup using Mutt and Vim

2020-05-04

I describe my email setup. It mainly consists of Mutt and Vim although there are various supporting tools as well

3 Simple Steps to Improve Your Freelance Business's Security

2020-04-09

All too often, security advice is aimed at large companies who can afford to spend hundreds or thousands of pounds on security procedures. In this blog, I will try and lay out some advice for freelancers and small businesses can follow, without breaking the bank.