Jack's Brain

Tech debt: a concept in programming that reflects the extra development work that arises when code that is easy to implement in the short run is used instead of applying the best overall solution.source Research institutions often suffer from the effects…

As you may or may not have heard, the CIA has recently had a major document trove released about the works of CCI in Langley.

This is a little half hour project I built before bed since I was itching to code something that wasn’t horribly frustrating (thanks, Compilers class…).

A groundbreaking new study linking gamma frequency photostrobing to reduction of amyloid plaque load in the brain which can cause Alzheimer’s.

I finished some homework early so I took ten minutes to spin out a piece of code I actually wrote as part of a class project (COEN164 shout out; thanks to Evan Paul for the praise that spurred me into repo-fying this) into a proper open source repo.

Short and sweet, but lots of fun, my end of summer project was a digital will dissemination system as well as a cute little life clock for myself.

After finals at SCU and now on the tail end of a few health issues, I’m happy to say I’m settling into my internship at Facebook!

After a leisurely day, an idea struck fast and hard – four hours later, Breakbot was born.

Today’s afternoon project before I start my real work: scriptBot. prep.py will process subtitle files (in SRT format), take in some Twitter credentials and interval data, and then build a file that tweet.py can take in, which will tweet out a random line…

I got tired of typing the emoji shrug by googling it and copying the first result, so I wrote a bookmarklet to inject it into the active input field.

…and all that is old has been made new again.

database migrations. in which my CPU fan explores its aspirations to become a jet engine.

y gulp. y u do this. y u mek me hev a sad.

BRB dying.

AKA stalk your friends on Tumblr.

I couldn’t sleep tonight, so I built a little toy that interfaces with Facebook’s TTS system for generating speech.

I troubleshoot a lot of systems that are designed to send emails, usually expecting a SMTP server to send from.

FALL QUARTER IS DONE.

I got inspired by a reddit post, and wrote a philosophical counterpart: whyami.

I’ve just gotten all my identities loaded into Keybase, a fantastic identity clearinghouse.

TL;DR: Make sure your GitHub organization is secure by checking that your org’s users have a sufficiently large key bittages and types (including elliptic) using this tool I wrote.

I’m upgrading my SSH RSA key to a higher bittage. ---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ---- Comment: "Jack Kingsman RSA" AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAgEAtBF4UbmlPNzUIUpHE4v1SrbvBKx5ULmjq/eU 1solR7efI5H0V9+XyPy6CcaNXlxlKGLvyIygC70s0cAA2tKkqp/TAyDyGeHwV+5e rS3RTs0eS5NfJl…

I’m proud to announce my very first module released on NPM!

If you’ve ever needed to copy chunks of code from GitHub but hate having to deal with removing the pluses and minuses in the diff view, I just wrote bookmarklet for you – it removes them with a couple lines of JavaScript.

I’ve been working on a little side project for the last couple days: NaughtyBot.

I ran out of tickets to work on this morning, so I wrote a Chrome extension to address a little pet peeve of mine – the close button on OpsCenter modals and dialogs was a bit tiny for my liking, and it always took a couple attempts to hit it when I’m movi…

I know it’s been a while since my last post – work has kept me INSANELY busy.

If you want me in your servers or want your secrets in my mind, you’ll need these.

Introduction For a project entirely irrelevant to this post, I wanted to get a Cassandra DB driver working on clientside JS.

Aftershave for the gentleman engineer.

This was my project for my first free evening in a number of weeks… I didn’t write the original engine (that honor goes to the great Iacopo Sassarini), but I did add all the control surfaces and kicked up the graphics a bit.

Healing has been perfect.

I just found the video that I was featured in about biohacking and transhumanism for Channel 4 in the UK!

My team won second prize at SCU’s annual BroncoHack.

The NFC is doing fantastic.

I just finished building my new PC, affectionately named Molly.

Healing continues.

Really happy – looks like it’s closing with no infection.

As a break from midterms, I did my NFC implant today.

I’m doing the transponder implantation this weekend!

…for some volunteer work I’m doing, and I realized that vaccinations and needle sticks get a whole lot easier to deal with after you’ve performed surgery on and sutured yourself.

1368 users :D

Hi world!

Bishop is a Chrome extension-based vulnerability scanner that can automate tedious tasks of hunting for trivial vulnerabilities on your websites as you browse.

FreeStep, the free & encrypted chat platform, has just been pushed to v2.0.0.

Hello World!

Just tagged v1.0.0-alpha of Bishop (“Marty”) and finalized that; it now supports background queuing if you don’t want to scan as you browse.

Sad Things BroncoStory has met its end… It looks like Snapchat is blocking access to the API we used to run the service.

Wow!

So in the 24 hours since I’ve released Get Git, it’s gotten quite a bit of attention on Reddit and a few forums.