## Archives: 2018

### Base16 and all that Jazz

Fundamentals

Photo by Vidar Nordli-Mathisen on Unsplash Oh God. HEX! It’s just so hard to get your head around. A lot of people think that getting into...

### You down with PGP? Yeah you know me!

Security

When “pretty good” is good enough PGP stands for “Pretty Good Privacy”. It’s a set of algorithms for encrypting, compressing, and signing data so...

### SONOFF MicroPython Wonderland

ESP8266/ESP32,Automation

Over the weekend I flashed off the default firmware on a cheap Sonoff basic Internet connected relay. Along the way I ran into a few issues, but...

### Setting up Hexo Auto-deploy from Gitlab

Web Dev,Gitlab, Automation

In a previous post I talked about why I like the idea of a static site generator, and the reasons for choosing to use one. In this post I want to...

### Static what Generator?!

Web Dev

Recently I’ve become disillusioned with most CMS options. They’re a pain to keep updated, plugins are constantly being abandoned, and they’re so...

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