Mendhak / Code

Dealing with open source software, I regularly encounter many kinds of licenses — MIT, Apache, BSD, GPL being the most prominent — and I’ve taken time out to read them.

I used to have a simple life — I’d buy books off Amazon, and read them on a Kindle.

There is a growing focus on Zero Trust security models across businesses, and with this changing landscape will come a new set of security paradigms and processes that end users will need to adapt to.

On Steam, I like to trade with other users to complete my card sets, and craft badges.

Does there exist a key more useless, more banal in its existence than Caps Lock?

It might appear that the tech industry tends to gravitate towards tools, languages and frameworks that are highly flexible by design.

In Bash I use a very basic prompt which is simple and effective.

As a computing end user, I’ve been vaguely aware of quantum computing on the horizon, but haven’t been aware regarding its effect on us.

As of 2026, Smashtest hasn’t had any repo activity in a long time, and potentially is no longer being maintained.

I have previously shown how to serve keys to WSL1, here I’ll be going over the method to do it for WSL2.

It’s possible to host your OpenAPI (Swagger) JSON as well the UI from within API Gateway itself, without needing an S3 bucket or any additional infrastructure.

I have created a simple, DIY e-paper dashboard setup that displays the weather and calendar information.

To the tune of Go the Fuck to Sleep The lofi hip hop plays gently, The drink I’m nursing is chilled.

If you have a Github Action set on a cron schedule, but don’t necessarily want it to always run on that schedule - for example a daily cron that doesn’t always need to run daily - it’s possible to introduce a random cancellation step.

The Doomsday algorithm is a memory trick that lets you figure out the day of the week that a given date falls on.

The well known A, B, C series paper sizes may seem arbitrary at first glance, but they are actually based on some simple basic principles which make it easy to calculate and understand.

AWS recently announced the ability to use Docker images in your Lambda functions.

When mapping tall buildings, it’s important to ensure that the drawn area matches the building’s footprint - where it intersects with the earth.

How to set up an Angular application.

Sometimes you may need to run an app that you’re not comfortable with or don’t necessarily trust.

Grub Reboot Picker is a tray application that helps you reboot into other operating systems or kernels, UEFI, BIOS, or just reboot.

Steps that I take to install WSL with Ubuntu, and set up a dev environment to work with Docker, correct permissions and a few other tweaks, on Windows 10.

Both gnome-terminal in Ubuntu as well as Windows Terminal with bash allow you to set the title of the current tab you’re working in.

KeePassXC is an alternative to KeePass 2; an interesting feature is that it has SSH agent support built in, rather than supplied via a plugin.

When working with a Raspberry Pi Zero W, as there is no network port, you will need to enable WiFi and SSH as well so that you can connect to it when it first boots.

Here I will go over a Terraform script to help with running a cheap Selenium Grid, in an AWS ECS cluster, with the containers managed by Fargate Spot instances.

Modern SSDs now come with built in commands that can wipe a disk for you.

How to properly validate TLS certificates from Android applications - without bypassing or compromising validation.

Documenting the steps I took to get NextDNS, NordVPN and restricted WiFi networks to work together.

When creating software for distribution to end users, it’s a good idea to enable checking its integrity and trustworthiness.

Although I’m not a prolific or advanced editor, I do enjoy contributing to OpenStreetMap.

Many node packages and tools will encourage you to install their tools globally.

curl is normally used to issue a single request against a URL.

If applied, this commit will:

This Apache Airflow operator can send messages to specific MS Teams Channels.

How to serve SSH keys to ssh running in WSL (Ubuntu) from KeeAgent running in Windows 10.

While KeePass is generally used for storing credentials, it can also be used to store SSH keys as well as serve those SSH keys when applications need it. mendhak/keepass-and-keeagent-setup Security setup instructions for using KeePass with KeeAgent for SSH

When someone submits a pull request to your repository, it is actually possible to update their pull request by pushing commits to their fork.

Understanding and measuring Angular JS perceived performance Page Load vs Perceived Page Load In a traditional page, measuring the page performance is quite easy; a request is made, the server responds with some HTML and the browser renders it.

When running Gradle tests on Travis CI, the terminal is usually set to dumb mode, so you get very plain looking output.

I’ve often had to test various aspects of web requests such as whether the right headers, querystrings, body, methods, etc. were being passed correctly. mendhak/docker-http-https-echo Docker image that echoes request data as JSON; listens on HTTP/S, useful

This build feature sends build status updates from TeamCity to Bitbucket.

If you have a wireless XBox controller for PC, then you cannot turn the controller off without removing-and-reattaching the battery pack.