Mountain Of Code

A simple allan key organiser.

This is used to securely mount a standard SMA VTX antenna to the Midge drone.

Short extension designed to adapt this monitor stand so that it holds a pair of 21.5" monitors exactly next to one another.

This model is the undercarriage for the Furious FPV Moskito 70 drone.

A replacement wheelbarrow wheel bearing cover/spacer.

This is a replacement wedge from a UPVC window assembly.

A tray to fit nicely under this model $fn=80; scaleFactor=1; module solid() { translate([-18*scaleFactor,146*scaleFactor,0]) scale([scaleFactor,scaleFactor,scaleFactor]) import("reference/thingiverse-2999036.stl"); // https://www.thingiverse.com/thi…

This is a replacement of part of an adjustable shower head holder.

This is a replacement clip for the bar which runs across the door of a small fridge.

This is a foot for a heavy-duty metal cooling rack.

A heavy-duty replacement body for the original (2011) Micro Drone from Extreme Fliers.

A replacement bearing for connecting the head strap to the side of the ear cup.

A really simple wedge with a loop to hang it.

I have previously set up an easy way to permanently delete files from within Caja but the only downside was that it couldn't delete recursively, which meant often manually selecting a number of files which was a pain.

For my Raspberry Pi Image Manager project I wanted to show a progress bar as an image is downloaded.

I am very much an advocate for 2 factor authentication tokens or keys such as a Yubikey, these devices can interface with web browsers through a Javascript API that web browsers expose or in the case of Firefox not expose.

I recently stumbled across the Pirate Box project and instantly loved the idea.

Me and the team at work make extensive use of BitBuckets issue tracker to document and track bugs, issues and suggestions against projects and this works really well for a single repository.

Recently I was involved with a security audit on a PHP based site, after i'd finished looking for XSS and SQL injection vulnerabilities I turned my attention to more subtle attack vectors.

I was recently involved in setting up a complex load balanced Auto-scaling multi server setup and to make life easy I wanted to set a header that contained the servers hostname so it was clear which server behind the load balancer satisfied each request.

Super capacitors are awesome, cheap, easily obtainable and can be a little dangerous.

I maintain and work on a number of repositories on BitBucket for both work and in my own time and use a separate account for each.

Just the other day I was helping a friend debug a really weird problem he was having with a his Raspberry Pi (model B), it turned out to be a really simple easy to fix problem but hard to debug...

A lot of PHP applications that I've worked on that allow file uploads place the files into a directory that is publicly accessible, this isn't a problem so long as your upload script never ever allows scripts to be uploaded.

A little while back I signed up for the Lets Encrypt beta for this domain, received an email today confirming that I had been invited to join the beta!

Now with added Thermite

I use command line arguments in nearly every bash script I write, they are super useful but when it comes to parsing the arguments it's always a pain.

Some times you want to delete a file and for it to stay deleted forever, SSH/SSL private keys, sensitive documents, old password databases, etc...

My PC is on literally 24/7 as I run a FAH (Folding At Home) client and Transmission to seed the RPi and Ubuntu image torrents, but when I want to use my machine I have to pause them both as they bog the machine down.

I was doing some forensic analysis of PHP scripts on a server a while ago and wanted to capture all parts of the HTTP requests these scripts were receiving.

The other day I was generally tidying the various document, images and scripts that seem to slowly become scattered about my home directory and noticed something strange had happened, the MATE Places menu now had a bookmarks submenu?

Today I was writing a script that needs to run without user interaction and need to get the latest version of a single file from a private BitBucket Git repo over SSH.

When you dont have an automated deployment system setup and you push code to the production server you will need to manually run all the task runners, namely Composer.

Some times you want to clone a repository but you dont want all the history and git stuff to.

When I was building my Multi SSH Key Manager I wanted to display a nice neat table with all the colour coded data in, how hard can that be...

In Linux you can run lsusb on the command line to list all currently connected USB devices but you may find a number of the entries give a pretty generic or blank name for the device.

I use SSH literally every single day, at work and at home, so for security and because I don't want to spend time typing long secure passwords I use SSH keys for authentication.

Every time I need to write a new image to my Pi, usually because i've broken it, I have to look up how to write the image, check mounts and find and download the latest version of the image I want.

Using a Raspberry Pi seems to make a lot of sense if you're in the market for a small NAS server, it's low cost, low profile, low energy etc...

I've always thought the Linux way of everything auto-updating for you, albeit after asking you first, was the best way forward so it always felt kind of wrong having to run composer self-update manually.

There was a new version of the Linux kernel released today, 3.13.0-49, once again I came across the issue of my /boot partition not having enough free space to fit the new kernel and was greeted by this message: The upgrade needs a total of XX M free space