Month: January 2019

There has been some minor news of late of a government shutdown in the USA. tl;dr something about a wall. Now, you would think that fully automated systems would generally keep running (well, until the hydro bill comes due I guess). But interestingly we can see some certificates have expired. Lets check out e.g. the…

There was a time we were blissfully unaware of what occurred on our front porch when we were not around. No more! Now you can see what secret fetishes your neighbours have. In this case, this chap came and licked their doorbell for 3 hours. Yup. You read all of those words correctly, in the…

OK we’ve all read stories now about exploding cell phones and fires. Thus we know that lithium-ion batteries can deliver a lot of current in a short interval. Usually there are safety tools in place to prevent this from being an issue. So I bought a device that not only removes those safety tools, but…

There’s two basic strategies for versioning software: semVer (in which the number has semantic meaning), and calVer (in which the number reflects the date). Pros and cons to both. In a nutshell, if you use ‘semVer’, you must obey: MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes, MINOR version when you add functionality in a…

Ever get an error on the web? Its some 3-digit number (404, 502, etc). Ever wonder, how precise is that? Well the Government of Canada did, and now adds another significant digit. Here’s a 503.0 error. No more do you wonder, should I round-up from 503.5? Also, did you ever wonder what sort of web-outage…