Author: matt
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Teaching Kids to Code: App Inventor
My 10 year old son recently asked to start doing some coding for school. He’s done some LEGO Boost projects in the past so I was looking for something that would be a bit more interesting. He has started using a smartphone for some things so I though building apps that he could run on…
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Cleaning Facebook and Twitter With UBlock
Ublock Origin has a handy feature that allows you to build custom fields in addition to their standard ad blocking abilities. Here’s a few rules I set up the other day to clean up annoying parts of Facebook and Twitter. For Twitter I wanted to get rid of all their trends stuff but keep my…
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The Strongest Argument for Decentralized Tech May Be Security
Twitter got hacked real good last night. From all appearances it doesn’t appear to be a technical hack, but a social engineering hack of employees with almost limitless access to the platform. As centralized tech companies have become the norm for political, economic and public health discourse a new threat model has reared it’s head.…
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Climbing South Hayden
My wife and I decided to try something new over the weekend. We attempted to summit the relatively remote Hayden Mountain. It was quite an experience and our first true backcountry summit attempt. We ended up having to turn back about 200 vertical feet from the summit due to loose shale and snow in the…
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B2 Caching Control
Backblaze B2 storage and Cloudflare have a partnership that allows free egress from B2 storage through the Cloudflare CDN. What this means in effect is free bandwidth for serving your images and videos. I wanted to set up this system for my Hugo based blog but I ran into an undocumented step that I wanted…
