Month: May 2020

OK, it took a bit of work to improve the antenna. The included one was cut (you could see in previous image). Fortunately I have a drawer of dead electronics waiting to go to the recycler. And one of them includes a Sonos ZP80. So, i ripped it open and extracted one of its 2.4GHz…

The endless MacGyver’ing of networking. Orange Pi Zero meet lack of desire to crawl through dirty fibre glass insulation.

Verifying who is calling you (before you verify who you are) is a challenge in zero-trust. Lets see how it worked in practice.

Got an hour or so free on May 12, 2020? Want to hear yours truly tell you a story about Cloud Native along with Transit, Ecobee, BioBox? Of course you do.

So we have this tap, outside, you know, for a garden hose. Copper pipe, copper faucet. Exactly what you don’t want exposed outdoor during the typical Ontario winter. Well, its lasted for ~45 years so I guess it was made of hardy stuff. Was being the key word, it has developed some post-nasal drip. More…