Death probe (A.K.A. 240V coffee warmer) review
Ah, another fantastically dangerous device shipped direct from China.
Happy new year
Well, once again, it’s getting close to the final midnight of the year. I swear these years are getting shorter. Anywho, here’s to 2016. Happy new year. Cheers.
SSH Tunnelling – Bringing things a little closer to home or home a little closer to you
A few years ago, I wrote an article on how it was possible to hack into a friend’s Facebook account on public, unsecured, or poorly secured Wi-Fi, when using Facebook over an unencrypted connection. In that post, I mentioned you could tunnel your home connection...
Releasing Intacta Express – A reverse engineering story
Just over 15 years ago I used to watch a television programme on the BBC called Tomorrow’s World, the show focused on new and emerging technologies which could end up in our everyday lives. Famously, the humble Compact Disc was featured, and to this day,...
Extending the life of my iPod for a few more years
A few years ago, I wrote an article titled “Why I’m not letting go of my 5th Generation iPod”. Just over five years on, I’m still using it, though it’s time to upgrade it despite it being almost a decade old. Repairing and modifying this...![Using Facebook Messenger on Pidgin – Revisited (API v2) [Updated]](https://robert.hawdon.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/banner1.png)
Using Facebook Messenger on Pidgin – Revisited (API v2) [Updated]
Just over 5 years ago, I wrote a post on here showing how to connect to Facebook Chat (now rebranded as Facebook Messenger) on 3rd party Instant Messenger clients through Facebook’s XMPP endpoint. Unfortunately this relied on Facebook’s first API, which...
My first week with the Apple Watch
…and why the £12,000 top of the range model might actually not be such a bad investment. Ok, so I finally took the plunge last week, raided the piggy bank, and purchased an Apple Watch. Why? Simply put, I liked the idea of having important information piped...
Robert Investigates: Yet another example of dangerous electronics.
Oh dear, it’s that time again where Robert spends far too much time obsessing over something that should have been thrown straight in the bin. This universal travel adaptor was kindly donated by a colleague who received this with a laptop which had clearly been...![[SysOps] Easily enabling maintenance pages on your puppet managed Nginx proxy](https://robert.hawdon.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/nginx-n.png)
[SysOps] Easily enabling maintenance pages on your puppet managed Nginx proxy
An article about setting up an Nginx reverse proxy to display a holding page when the presence of a file is detected.
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