Brian Wigginton

spacetraders.io has been an on-and-off obsession of mine for years.

For about a year now I’ve had a reMarkable 2 e-ink tablet, and I have to say I love it!

Notes from Open Source does not win by being cheaper by Anh-Tho Chuong. profit is important even for open source projects to grow: it enabled hiring, running services and sustaining product development. don’t cater to the people looking for the cheapest o…

Summary Notes from “Building a Second Brain” by Tiago Forte.

Gestalt Psychology from germany in 1912, researched how we perceive pattern, form and organization.

Lately, I’ve been reading about information design and one area that I think is especially interesting is how best to use color to convey information.

A dashboard is a visual display of the most important information needed to achieve one or more objectives, consolidated and arranged on a single screen so the information can be monitored at a glance. – Few, Stephen (2013) Information Dashboard Design (pp

A poorly chosen colormap between values and colors can fool the human eyes to, e.g., pick out non-existing features, or to hide important features. https://github.com/liamedeiros/ehtplot/blob/docs/docs/COLORMAPS.ipynb Considerations Accessibility/CVD Perc…

Noise Let’s start out with noise.

ANKI Cozmo/Vector I personally think that Anki’s Cozmo was an absolutely incredible feat in both mechanical engineering and creative design.

Today I decided to blow the dust off an unused WeMos D1 Mini (ESP8266 ESP-12F) and BMP280 tmep sensor to build a Hot Aisle Temperature Grafana Dashboard for my Homelab closet.

This is how I setup a remote access VPN to my Homelab via Tailscale.

Unfortunately I didn’t make it through all these challenges, but I did want to share my answers to the one’s I did complete, share my thought process, and initial thoughts on the challenges I didn’t get.

While at DEFCON 30 this year, I used my PIA vpn subscription.

I was finally able to make it out to DEFCON, which has been on my bucket list for a loooong time.

Overview I built this to both help visualize market data and play with the vue3 composition api and deployment using Docker on AWS’s App Runner and Container Registry services.

Overview Writeup for the Pandora machine on hackthebox.com.

My good friend Ryan Gibbons introduced me to Kitty, an alternative terminal application.

My personal results from the CliftonStrengths test I took back in 2014.

I thought it would be cool to have a Cocktail app that would recommend me cocktails based on my flavor preferences.

While looking at the Aftership API, I noticed their public tracking IDs looked interesting.

Use gnuplot command to run a plt file and ouput a png file. gnuplot bigo.plt # File: bigo.plt set title "Big-O Complexity Chart" set output "bigo.png" # output file name set term png # output as PNG set grid # show a grid set xlabel "Elements" set ylabel…

I love a good dark mode theme, but in bright light settings sometimes I want something lighter.

First PC The first family computer we had was a 50MHz Gateway 2000.

I’ve been using fingerprint authentication ever since I started using my X1 Carbon 6 laptop as my daily driver.

Proceed at your own risk.

CyberDefenders is a training platform focused on the defensive side of cybersecurity, aiming to provide a place for blue teams to practice, validate the skills they have, and acquire the ones they need.

Earlier this year, I was playing around with stock trading.

After futzing around with the x230 over the years, I finally decided it was time for an upgrade.

I started experiencing issues after configuring my Pace 5268ac modem from ATT for DMZ+ mode to my Ubiquiti UDM Pro router.

Overview Since setting up my homelab, I’ve been able to reclaim my now idle Thinkpad x230.

A simple subnet calculator I built to gain familiarity with vue.js and IPv4 CIDR calculations. https://bwiggs.github.io/subnet-calculator/

If I send you a message, how can you be sure that the message is from me and the that message’s contents haven’t been altered?

Did you know “Freon” is being phased out?

Here’s how to print a file to stdout and remove all the comments vie the cli: awk '!

Some exciting news came out of GopherCon 2018 this week, Go 2 Draft Designs!

I needed a way to generate low quality blurry images for use with progressively.js on this blog.

Here’s a quick reference for configuring iptables firewall rules.

August 25, 2017, the weekend Hurricane Harvey hit Texas I was up all hours monitoring the storm and relevant news feeds.

Quadtrees Quadtrees are a tree like data structure where each node has 0 or 4 children.

How do you insert a record into a postgres table that has a single auto incrementing primary key field?

I’ve been crushing it.

We deployed our Rails application today and found that one of our AWS EC2 servers wasn’t able to connect to our Elasticache instance using the Ruby dalli gem.

We’re working on putting our current product behind Amazon Cloudfront.

TIL that jQuery has some pretty cool attribute querying capability.

I learned something interesting in John Resig’s book Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja.