Andrew Shay's Blog and Digital Garden

My Note Taking System There are many note taking systems and information organization tools and tips out there.

I created, BoxDiff, a simple Python script for detecting changes on Windows.

What is Vendor Base64 rust_vendor_base64 is my implementation of base64, in rust, that is meant to be vendored in rust projects.

What is Auto Magor Auto Magor is a simple Python program that I created that can generate 3 column print magazines from text files and images.

What is Transmitic & The Prototype Phase Transmitic is an encrypted, p2p, file transfer and sharing program.

I created, Transmitic, desktop software for encrypted, peer to peer, file transfer and sharing.

When I was building a new blog generator for this site, I did not want to use any third party packages, therefore I needed some simple markdown like parsing.

Here is how to convert u32 to bytes and then back again in Rust. fn main() { let original_u32: u32 = 1048572; println!

About a year ago I wanted to learn more about good testing habits and specifically Test Driven Development (TDD) because I had heard about it so much.

A while ago I wanted my Philips Hue light bulbs to change colors based on the most common color on my monitor.

This article discusses how to easily create a speedometer / gauge image in Python with only the Pillow library.

I recently wanted software to notify me when services, installed programs, and startup programs were added, removed, or changed.

I was recently looking to gather the same data that msinfo32 reports and I found a couple wmic commands that provided me with what I needed.

This guide is for Apache but might be similar for other web servers If you've just installed Let's Encrypt certificates with Certbot on your web server and ran SSL Server Test, you might have warning saying your server supports TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_S…