Josh Spicer

Tank Game is a multiplayer tank game using Bluetooth/WiFi peer-to-peer connectivity.

MapCalipers is a flexible mapping toolkit built to help you defeat your friends in Jet Lag: The Game Hide and Seek Transit Game!

Meet HabitBridge - a habit tracking app designed for developers, hackers, and anyone else who wants real control over their digital habit tracking.

Bunny Bunch is a free adaptation of Cubirds by Pandasaurus Games.

I was recently gifted a beautiful LED sign with a significantly less beautiful mobile app to control it.

The ethos of this website is to express creativity and share topics I find generally interesting.

I love Tailscale.

I got my amateur radio operator’s license — callsign KK7VUA!

The Inkplate 10 is an awesome, hackable e-ink display.

👋 [Sept 2024] This post was updated with improvements to both the service (now hosted as an Azure Function) and the ESP module programming (using an esphome config).

Configuration notes for the operating systems and machines I use.

I recently set up a Cloudflare Tunnel and wanted to find a way to protect that resource.

My Xfinity cable internet connection has been shockingly unreliable since I last moved.

I recently discovered Paul Miller's blog post and repo sharing how to craft iOS configuration profiles that instruct iOS (or macOS/tvOS/watchOS/etc) to use a provided DNS over...

Pi-hole & Cloudflared (DoH)

🚧 NOTE: Jarvis is currently a work in progress

A while back, I got one of those "smart" air purifiers to sit in my room while I work-from-home.

For a long time i've wanted to add a NAS to my homelab setup.

I don't often think of myself as an innately creative person, yet each year I feel a sense of pride (and emotion) looking back at the music i've collected each month.

The most astute readers of this blog would've noticed that for the past couple months, its homepage has been missing its characteristic Josh is listening to "XXX" on Spotify....

This article is a braindump of how I was successful in bypassing SSL pinning on Android 11 in 2021.

As a part of homekit-ifying my apartment, i've been wanting to make my window A/C unit a bit smarter.

HomeKit-ifying every last corner of my apartment - for better or worse - has become a "hobby" of mine as of lately.

Recently, I spent some time creating a repeatable method of generating a customized Linux disk image.

Purpose: For any Azure Compute Linux VM where you have permission to execute one-off commands via the Azure CLI, issues a reverse shell command to the VM and sends the shell...

My third annual monthly playlist series!

A running archive of concerts I've attended.

I recently bought a bluetooth thermometer/hydrometer (Govee H5072) for $15 on Amazon to use in my apartment.

Join me this year as I participate in my first Advent of Code month-long coding challenge!

On my Github you'll find my first (not work-related) vscode extension - a simple tool to map your commonly used extension commands to touchbar buttons.

Daily Word is now on the App Store if you want to add a little language to your homescreen.

⚠ RancherOS appears to be unmaintained at the moment, so I no longer recommend this as the best approach!

One feature I really liked from my old Xfinity router were the push notifications it sent when new devices first joined my wireless network.

A one-second-per-day video from a trip through Japan and Thailand.

Mobile apps need icons!

I follow a lot of guide & writeups online covering a range of topics.

UPDATE: Sept 2021 - I've recently made some edits (thanks to a helpful email and slack message) that should resolve a pesky DNS issue.

Bridging your iPhone hotspot is useful for an array of reasons.

Like many people these days in the quarantine/COVID-19/social distancing world, i've been living my life through video calling apps like Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Zoom.

Last updated on May 13, 2021

Over the past few days i've been upgrading my homelab setup.

"Pi ContrHOLE" is a simple Xamarin Forms Shell app to manage your local Pi-hole instance.

“Hey Siri - add this song to my monthly playlist!"

Welcome to my Italian citizenship journey!

Introducing my Home Lab!

These are my all time top songs as of January 6, 2020!

Last November I participated in my third Northeastern Husky Hunt, this time with the aid of our team's homebrew'ed app PawPrints.

Every month I pour all my favorite tunes into a playlist with that name (this year, in Turkish because why not).

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.

A one-second-per-day video from my 2019 Microsoft internship.