Jake Shaw

How to backup FortiOS 7.x configurations with current versions of Ansible and the Fortinet collection.

I did this project by taking a bunch of photos of the thermostat, EIM, furnace control board, and wiring, attaching them to a ChatGPT conversation, and asking it to help me understand what I had and guide me through the conversion.

Like Techmeme River, but for Apple blogs.

Wherein I explain passkeys the best I can.

I have hundreds of scripts that I use to automate frequent tasks as a network security engineer.

With this simple Shortcut, you can use Apple's Shortcuts app and the ChatGPT app to improve writing.

Tonight, I coded up a quick project called Oblique Hallucinations.

I use a MacBook Pro 14" M3 Max at home.

Great news!

An iOS Shortcut for your Action Button to either silence the phone or launch the camera app based on its orientation.

Operating Systems My workflow is typically the Firefox web browser, Obsidian Notes, plus several terminals with zsh or bash.

Easily bypass article paywalls with this bookmarklet.

Set up your organization's DNS servers to force Brave Search to use Safe Search.

Set up an iTerm 2 profile that logs to a plaintext log file.

I'm really enjoying Engineer Man's YouTube videos.

My best attempt at documenting my progress.

A post on how I got rid of ads on my Kindle for free

Rich Roll (@richroll) recently posted a great YouTube video called “VEGAN ON $25”.

Use dump1090 on your Mac to receive ADS-B transmissions from aircraft

If you do a Google search for something like “gqrx el capitan”, you’ll find a few guides on using Homebrew to install a bunch of packages that’ll fetch you an old version of GQRX.

This is how I make my theater-style popcorn.

Where I see the future of Mac application development going.

Seinfeld didn't come up with the writing Xs on calendar thing.

About that creepy line from the old Looney Tunes cartoons.

A little about my garage workbench.

This week, the NSA has found itself in the middle of a couple of scandals.

I have a Macbook Pro Retina (MC975LL/A) for sale.

The DEW Line finds a new mystery drone at the Skunk Works facility.

This only applies to legitimate iOS developers.

Webmasters, the robots.txt does not provide any security.

A cool project right up my alley using Python and the Python Imaging Library.

Update: I have confirmed this will not work fully with T-Mobile USA (and presumably other US carriers, such as AT&T) SIM cards.