qBittorrent's API rate-limits fresh logins
A dashboard tile of mine that aggregates torrent counts across five qBittorrent instances started intermittently returning 403s. The page would refresh…
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An on-this-day journal feature from 3,000 Day One entries
I exported 3,060 Day One journal entries as JSON, imported them into DynamoDB, and built an
Read →Two flags for one boolean, drifted apart
A user of a side-project reported that the
Read →Disabling Zebra printer Bidi when PowerShell refuses to help
I write deployment scripts for Zebra ZQ521 mobile printers running CPCL. Two of the standard config knobs — disable bidirectional communication and…
Read →A counter clock as the simplest thing that could possibly work
I needed a public webpage that counts time since a fixed instant. Two days, four hours, big number, mobile-friendly. The interesting part wasn't the page…
Read →Disabled the schedule. Got paged anyway.
I disabled a stuck check-in schedule at 09:05. At 09:33 my phone buzzed with
Read →Counting a word across Signal messages with the macOS keychain
I wanted to count how many times I'd used a specific word across all my outgoing Signal messages. Sounded like five lines of SQL. The interesting part…
Read →A BYOS e-ink dashboard that wakes once a day
I wanted a tiny always-on display in my office that showed the day's useful information and lasted a season on a single battery charge. The constraint…
Read →Sketching a one-click honeypot installer
Honeypots are useful and almost nobody runs them, because the existing stacks are either too heavy (multi-container threat-intel platforms that need 16…
Read →Memex — a queryable second brain over my messages
I wanted to ask my own data questions like
Read →Adding email to the Memex (and a Dynamo pagination gotcha)
A few hours after shipping the Memex over iMessage and Signal, I added email. The interesting part wasn't the feature — it was a DynamoDB pagination bug…
Read →Per-day-of-week sleep windows for a safety app
A safety app I run was firing
Read →Five identical schedules, thirteen SMS in ten minutes
09:33 to 09:43 on a Friday morning: thirteen SMS messages, several push notifications, all from my own safety app, all to me. The trigger was five…
Read →Decrypting Signal Desktop's database on macOS
I wanted Signal Desktop's message history available for indexing in my personal search. Signal Desktop stores messages in a SQLCipher database, and the…
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