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A few weeks ago, I attended the WebAI summit and got a Bangle.js watch so I worked on updating my Air Street Fighter prototype to use it.

A few days ago, I came across new research explaining a novel cybersecurity attack via polymorphic Chrome Extension and decided to spend some time recreating it

A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon a very cool research project around using the acoustic signature of gestures to create new interactions with interfaces and decided to implement a prototype version of it in JavaScript.

Some notes from reading chapter 4 of the book 'How computers really work'.

Last weekend, I competed in the National Cyber League (NCL), my first cybersecurity CTF.

Different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum can be used to transmit information.

When I'm sharing what I learn about cybersecurity in open-source, a reaction I've seen people have is to mention Deno as a tool that will fix the problem.

I used Vultr recently and struggled to create a reverse shell so this post is gathering the steps that worked

The first time I experimented with TensorFlow.js for micro-controllers, I got really excited about the fact that a machine learning model was transferred via bluetooth to my Arduino.

Recently, I've been experimenting with gesture control and researched how this technology could be used as a payment method.

A few years ago, I came across an awesome talk by Thomas Watson in which he talks about how he built AirplaneJS, a web app that picks up ADS-B radio signals from airplanes and plots them in real time on a map in the browser.

I recently learnt what a reverse shell is and got excited to experiment running this kind of attack via a Node.js module.

Experimenting with ultrasonic data transmission in JavaScript as a payment method.

A couple of weeks ago, I experimented with creating a small ransomware script, and looked into how to run it in a Node.js module.

I've played around with hand detection using TensorFlow.js in the past but since they released the ability to detect multiple hands, I've wanted to explore building UIs with hand movements.

Over the past few weeks, I've been working on a new side project to replicate a visual effect called 'head-coupled perspective' to make interactive art with head tracking, using Three.js and TensorFlow.js.

A few days ago, we released dark mode in beta.

Working on a big monorepo means that developing with Storybook can become painfully slow.

For a long time, I thought a keyboard and monitor were needed to do the initial setup of a RaspberryPi.

After trying out a Python project called whereami, I spent some time trying to replicate it in JavaScript.

Quick overview of Spline, a 3D design tool for web experiences and how I spent a few hours creating a low-poly scene.

Over the weekend, I spent a few hours building a Github action to automatically detect potentially toxic comments and PR reviews.

If you've been following my work, you may be used to seeing weird JavaScript projects exploring HCI, but this post won't be about that.