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Altering Python Function Signature Typehints

How to create an async proxy that automatically alters the source function's typehint

Published (6 min read)

Faking Firebase initialisation in Tests

How to fake Firebase SDK initialisation in your Python app's test suite

Published (2 min read)

Ansible - Hide OK & Skipped

How to only show tasks that caused a change when using Ansible

Published (1 min read)

ZSH, Oh My ZSH and Starship

My current preferred shell & prompt combination

Published (3 min read)

Learning Smart Contract Security - Part 3

Learning how maths cam be troublesome when working with Solidity

Published (19 min read)

Learning Smart Contract Security - Part 2

Learning why randomness and privacy aren't so simple in Solidity

Published (16 min read)

Learning Smart Contract Security - Part 1

Working through Capture The Ether warmup challenges using Hardhat

Published (8 min read)

Setting Up a Containerised Smart Contract Dev Environment

Using VS Code's Devcontainers to set up a consistent shared development environment for Smart Contracts

Published (6 min read)

Building a YAML router for Falcon Framework

How to build a simple but extensible YAML router for the Falcon WSGI framework for Python

Published (2 min read)

Speeding up MySQL CLI workflow with .my.cnf

A nifty little trick to speed up working with MySQL in your development environments.

Published (1 min read)

301s, Drupal, Varnish, and SSL Load Balancers

How to get SSL-only sites working behind load balancers and Varnish

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Changing The Foreman's SSL Certificate

How to change The Foreman's web UI SSL certificate without affecting your Puppet nodes.

Published (1 min read)

HorizonPlatform Puppet Module

A Puppet module that manages an instance of the HorizonPlatform cryptocurrency client on your Linux server.

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Debian Jessie high disk I/O

A potential fix for anybody experiencing very high disk I/O on the latest Debian or Ubuntu.

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Puppet Node Configuration Skeleton

A node configuration skeleton for Puppet, using Vagrant to facilitate testing.

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Lumen dev box with Puppet and Vagrant

How to build a lightweight and extensible development environment for Laravel Lumen using Vagrant and Puppet.

Published (3 min read)

Official Puppet Mysql & MariaDB on CentOS

Making the puppetlabs-mysql official Puppet module work with the official MariaDB CentOS repositories.

Published (1 min read)

Some nonsensical programming fun

A bit of fun with logic and pseudocode

Published (1 min read)

Production Ready Bitcoin Under systemd

How to get bitcoind running securely behind systemd on Linux

Published (1 min read)

New Cryptocurrency Community Sites

Crypto Currency Collectors Club Sites Launched!

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Altcoin Mining Calculator

An extensible altcoin mining profitability calculator written in PHP

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Official Ubuntu PPA for Hirocoin Launched

Hirocoin official Ubuntu PPA installation and usage instructions.

Published (1 min read)

BitcoinPaperWallet ported to Darkcoin (DRK)

Paper Wallet for Darkcoin (DRK, now known as Dashpay - DASH)

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Crypto-savings paper wallet what, when, how and why

A basic guide on using paper wallets for long-term cryptocurrency storage.

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Nvidia CUDA 5.5/Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander

A guide on how to get CUDA 5.5 installed in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander.

Published (1 min read)

How to get Tor 2.4 on Ubuntu and Slackware.

How and why to get the latest and safest version of anonymising software Tor on your Ubuntu or Slackware box.

Published (1 min read)

Laravel 4 install/update script

A script to install and update Laravel 4 instances with a single command

Published (1 min read)

EC2 Ubuntu 12.10 x64 - No such file or directory

How to get x86 binaries to run on the stripped down EC2 edition of Quantal Quetzal (Ubuntu 12.10).

Published (1 min read)

IPTables port redirection

The simple process of forwarding ports between different machines using Linux's IPTables.

Published (1 min read)

Laravel HMAC Authentication Bundle

A simple HMAC authentication bundle for Laravel 3.x

Published (1 min read)

Bookworm Drupal 7 theme

A light, calm theme for Drupal 7, based on Metaltoad's H5Bp.

Published (0 min read)

Bright and White Responsive D7 theme

A bright, and white responsive Drupal 7 theme.

Published (0 min read)

Migrating Drupal 7 to Wordpress 3.

Learn how to migrate/convert a Drupal 7 site to Wordpress 3.5.

Published (1 min read)

Western Digital Advanced Format vs. Linux Woes

How to partition a Western Digital Advanced Format drive in Linux

Published (1 min read)

How To Hot Plug a SATA drive in Linux

How to hotplug SATA drives in Linux.

Published (1 min read)

Drupal - Reset CSS & JS cache with Drush

How to reset your Drupal theme's CSS/JS cache from the CLI while developing.

Published (1 min read)

Drupal - Reset lost password from the DB

How to reset your Drupal 7 password from the database.

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Drupal - Views 3 menu tab visibilty

How to restrict Views menu tab visibility to certain content-types using Views 3 on Drupal 7.

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Drupal - Views 3 Contextual Filter LIKE

How to modify a Drupal/Views 3 Contextual Filter to use the LIKE operator, instead of the hard-coded =.

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Code Cumbria #7 PHP Presentation

Slides and code from my OOP PHP talk at Code Cumbria

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Drupal 7 Last.FM module

A Last.FM module for Drupal 7

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An Amazing Steampunk Contraption.

An amazing steampunk contraption a close friend of mine recently restored.

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Slackware/Vim crontab not saving fix.

Tutorial: How to ensure that Slackware saves the crontab when using Vim.

Published (1 min read)

Reading hFuse, lFuse and eFuse from Arduno IDE.

How to read an ATmega328P's hardware fuse bits from the Arduino IDE.

Published (1 min read)

Charlieplexing LEDs on the Arduino

How to charlieplex 6 LEDs, with PWM using only 3 pins on the Arduino.

Published (1 min read)

Arduino/MSGEQ7 Audio Spectrum LED Display

Arduino/MSGEQ7 Seven Band Graphic Equalizer Display Filter Tutorial

Published (2 min read)

Arduino/Processing communication.

Broken Arduino <-> Processing communication fix

Published (1 min read)

Ubuntu 11.10 on Dell XPS 17 & Optimus.

How to install Ubuntu on a Dell XPS 17, and activate hybrid graphics/multi-monitor support.

Published (0 min read)

Stop Slackware from Renaming Network Devices

How to modify Slackware's udev rules to ensure consistency in network device naming.

Published (0 min read)

Crontab Not Running Scripts Fix

A possible fix if Cron isn't running your own custom jobs

Published (1 min read)

GPlusFeed Module for Drupal 7

A Drupal module which reads a user's public Google+ feed.

Published (0 min read)

More Interesting and/or Useful BASH Techniques!

Some more really cool BASH tricks

Published (1 min read)

Interesting/useful BASH techniques

Some great BASH tips, tricks and features

Published (1 min read)

DokuDrupal Authentication Backend

A Drupal authentication backend for Dokuwiki

Published (0 min read)

Drupal 7 Secure File Download Script

A file download script that checks authentication against a Drupal instance.

Published (0 min read)

Building a secure file download system for Drupal 7

Drupal authentication based secure file download php script.

Published (3 min read)

Postfix and Courier IMAP Authentication via MySQL using Courier

IMAP e-mail server using MySQL for authentication

Published (5 min read)

Install self-signed SSL certificates in Linux and Windows

Install your own certificates permanently

Published (1 min read)

Reverse Xorg scrolling in Linux ("Natural Scrolling")

Configure touch screen style scrolling in Linux

Published (1 min read)

BASH script to add GUI to cp

Give the Linux copy command a GUI

Published (2 min read)

Find /dev entries for any loaded kernel module.

Access the correct raw device for your hardware

Published (1 min read)

Mount partitions from a VirtualBox VDI in Linux.

Mount your Virtualbox rig's partitions on the host machine

Published (1 min read)

Google Chrome: "Failed to create a ProcessSingleton!"

A fix for a common problem experienced with Google Chrome.

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How to download Flash 10.2 video streams in Linux.

How to download Flash 10.2 video streams in Linux. Various scripts and methods of simplification are included as updates, with full code available.

Published (1 min read)

How To: Install Indy 10 on Lazarus

Install the Indy component library version 10 in Lazarus FreePascal IDE.

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Linux FTP file transfer failed problems

FTP connection tracking fix for Linux

Published (0 min read)

Simple Slackware Sendmail Server

How to configure Sendmail on Slackware.

Published (1 min read)

Low cost upgrade to a home-use modem/router

How to upgrade your home router with a bit of technical wizardry

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Horde/Kronolith "no free/busy url" fix.

How to fix a Horde/Kronilith error when it won't detect the free/busy url

Published (0 min read)

Ignore directory structure with tar.

How to get tar to ignore directory structures

Published (1 min read)

Syntax highlighting with less.

How to hack syntax highlighting into less through Vim.

Published (1 min read)

Wget an entire FTP folder from its index (RegEx Introduction)

Using wget to grab whole folder from an FTP site with an HTTP front end

Published (1 min read)

Grab a whole folder with wget

How to download a folder recursively using wget

Published (1 min read)

KDE & Firefox - Open Containing Folder?

Firefox sometimes doesn't let you "open containing folder". Find out how to fix it in KDE!

Published (1 min read)

Disable Gnome-Panel on Ubuntu Karmic Koala

How to disable the Gnome top panel in Ubuntu

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Sending & Receiving SMS with a 3G device in linux

How to manually send and receive SMS via a 3G/GSM dongle on Linux

Published (1 min read)

Resizing a VirtualBox HDD

Start to finish on resizing a virtual disk in Virtualbox.

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Nifty RAM Dump/Sort script

An extremely useful RAM dump and sort script for Linux

Published (1 min read)

Non-interactive router reboot HOWTO

How to reboot a home router automatically and/or non-interactively

Published (1 min read)

Modifying the SSH ban list.

How to manually edit the IPTables SSH ban list

Published (1 min read)

Firefox over SSH

How to run Firefox over an SSH connection to a remote system.

Published (0 min read)

Optimising Slackware Boot Time (part 3).

The final part in my Optimising Slackware Boot Time series.

Published (2 min read)

Optimising Slackware boot time (part 1).

The first part in a series of articles on optimising boot times in Slackware

Published (0 min read)

Optimising Slackware Boot Time (part 2).

Part 2 of Optimising Slackware Boot Time

Published (1 min read)

CUPS + Slackware = Headache.

Battling CUPS in Slackware - and winning!

Published (1 min read)

How to stop Xorg switching off your LCD screen's backlight.

Published (1 min read)

Slackware Bootsplash Howto

One of the few Slackware Bootsplash patch guides available online.

Published (1 min read)

Compiz on Slackware with VIA Chrome9!!!

Get your VIA Chrome9 card to work with Compiz Fusion

Published (1 min read)

Arthur C. Clarke. RIP.

A personal farewell to one of my favourite authors

Published (0 min read)

Madwifi-ng and injection on Slackware 12.0

How to get Madwifi into promiscuous mode on Slack 12

Published (0 min read)

Linux and 3G. Not as tough as you'd expect!

How to get 3G comms working in Linux

Published (1 min read)

WEP cracking 101

WEP is awful... Here's why.

Published (1 min read)