When the time comes to delete an old S3 bucket, it’s important to know that they can’t be deleted while they contain content. Here’s what you can do about it from the CLI…| instantiator.dev
ListSky is a new tool for collaboratively managing lists of social accounts.| instantiator.dev
An alternative calendar for the geek in your heart… In this house we celebrate… Here’s a fun alternative celebration calendar.| instantiator.dev
What is The Epistolorean, and what has it got to do with Count Dracula?| instantiator.dev
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How to use Open Social Distributor to post threads and messages across multiple social networks at once.| instantiator.dev
What if your UI was a slide show? Reveal in React TLDR: Here’s a template repository for a NextJS app with a Reveal slide show UI: instantiator/reveal-on-next| instantiator.dev
OAuth Token Explorer is a tool to explore authentication and authorisation on behalf of a user.| instantiator.dev
json-to-smart-csv is a tool to help build CSV records from arbitrary JSON…| instantiator.dev
A quick guide to running your own tile server, with a geo database populated from OpenStreetMap data.| instantiator.dev
In this part, we’ll build a simple user interface for a Flipper Zero app.| instantiator.dev
Exploring your personal Netflix viewing history… What you see is a visualisation of everything I’ved watched since 2012.| instantiator.dev
This is a quick guide to some of the features of the Semantic Kernel, a Software Development Kit that simplifies integration of language models into your own applications.| instantiator.dev
A tool to design 3D printed crossword puzzles. Generating 3D crossword models I’ve been working on a tool to generate crossword designs using OpenSCAD.| instantiator.dev
Presenting a simple template to develop, publish, and test a simple C# service backend on AWS, with serverless Lambda functions, supported by DynamoDb, behind an API Gateway, and protected by Cognito auth.| instantiator.dev
It took me 3 weeks to complete the day 11 puzzle for Advent of Code on a BBC Micro this year, and you’d be hard pressed to describe my solution as “proportionate” or “necessary”…| instantiator.dev
Consensus Chess is going through some beta testing on Mastodon, and you can play today!| instantiator.dev
I am a tech lead and senior software developer. My career reflects my passion for public service and volunteerism.| instantiator.dev
I’ve been working on a pet project recently: Consensus games are a fun new way to play together through social media…| instantiator.dev
A few days ago we had a call from one of the most sophisticated phishing attacks I’ve experienced…| instantiator.dev
It’s possible to share a secret amongst a group of people so that only some of them are needed to reconstruct it…| instantiator.dev
More commonly known as a Dead Man’s Switch, a Dead Person Switch (DPS) is a system that can hold a secret on behalf of a person, and govern its release should they become unavailable.| instantiator.dev
Art is fun and hard and messy and complicated and like every other trade it’s full of people who are earnestly showing you what they created (sprinkled with a few jokers).| instantiator.dev
Just recently I have been exploring a very strange issue: My application couldn’t find a tool that was right where it should be…| instantiator.dev
I am hoping to interview some investigative journalists for my masters thesis at the University of Oxford.| instantiator.dev
The things I’ll do to avoid learning LaTeX… Do you prefer Markdown to LaTeX?| instantiator.dev
The Data Standards Authority are holding an open challenge to discover and set a new data standard for vulnerable people services.| instantiator.dev
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In part 5, we amended our Lambda to write to an S3 bucket; and in this part, we’ll explore triggers to run it regularly.| instantiator.dev
In previous parts, we’ve built a Lambda that can query the OpenWeather API, using a secret key; and in this part we’ll extend it to write that data to S3.| instantiator.dev
In part 3, we extended our Lambda to communicate with an API, using a secret key; and in this part, we’ll explore the logs created when the Lambda runs.| instantiator.dev
In part 2, we build a Lambda function, deployed and invoked it; and in this part, we’ll extend it to communicate with an API using a secret key.| instantiator.dev
In part 1, we set up the basic infrastructure to support a new Lambda function on AWS; and n this part, we’ll build a Lambda function, deploy it to AWS, and invoke it with some input.| instantiator.dev
At first glance, Amazon Web Services (AWS) can seem impenetrably complex, but it’s not so bad once you’ve found your way around it…| instantiator.dev
There are a many ways to peek inside a data file and reason about its contents.| instantiator.dev
Anyone can code. This is a short exploration of the choices for coding beginners out there.| instantiator.dev
My Mac likes to go to sleep to save power, and that means any long-running processes I have underway will be suspended when it does.| instantiator.dev
I learned to code on a computer called the BBC Micro, released by the BBC in 1981.| instantiator.dev
Cleaning up data from volunteer groups across the UK. We’re only human In the previous post, we took a tour of the open data available that tells the story of volunteerism across the UK since the coronavirus crisis began.| instantiator.dev
What can we learn about grass-roots COVID-19 volunteer groups from open data?| instantiator.dev
A friend is helping out with a community project and asked for some laptops.| instantiator.dev
A couple of weeks ago I witnessed a stabbing… Being a better witness I didn’t know it was a stabbing at the time.| instantiator.dev
This is a necropost, resurrected from an old blog. To find out more about Hack the Police events, civic tech, and policing technology, visit: Police Rewired| instantiator.dev
This is a necropost, resurrected from an old blog. To find out more about Hack the Police events, civic tech, and policing technology, visit: Police Rewired| instantiator.dev
To find out more about Hack the Police events, civic tech, and policing technology, visit: Police Rewired| instantiator.dev
This is a necropost, resurrected from an old blog. Wriggler It was 1998 and I was 17.| instantiator.dev
Software Self-Defence 101 The first time I met Glyn Wintle, I embarrassed myself.| instantiator.dev
Touch pairing is an exploration of intimacy and closeness at a distance, from Sex Tech Hack 2017.| instantiator.dev
Hacking the Police Hackathons are everywhere these days, and if you know what they are already then do please skip on and learn why the police are so hungry for innovation!| instantiator.dev
This article was originally posted to Medium. 3 excellent ways to build trust with your users I don’t see why it needs that permission!| instantiator.dev
This article was originally posted to Medium. 5 reasons refactoring your project can give you back your competitive edge It didn’t used to be so expensive to change one little thing…| instantiator.dev
This article was originally posted to Medium. Why are some projects so expensive?| instantiator.dev
This is a necropost, resurrected from an old blog. Drive Stamper Drive Stamper is one of the first projects I released into the wild, and helped me to kick off my old blog in 2011.| instantiator.dev
This is a necropost, resurrected from an old blog. Educational games It’s time to take a look at a project from almost a decade ago!| instantiator.dev
This is a necropost, resurrected from an old blog. To find out more about Hack the Police events, civic tech, and policing technology, visit: Police Rewired| instantiator.dev
This is a necropost, resurrected from an old blog. To find out more about Hack the Police events, civic tech, and policing technology, visit: Police Rewired| instantiator.dev
This is a necropost, resurrected from an old blog. To find out more about Hack the Police events, civic tech, and policing technology, visit: Police Rewired| instantiator.dev
This is a necropost, resurrected from an old blog. To find out more about Hack the Police events, civic tech, and policing technology, visit: Police Rewired| instantiator.dev
This is a necropost, resurrected from an old blog. To find out more about Hack the Police events, civic tech, and policing technology, visit: Police Rewired| instantiator.dev
This is a necropost, resurrected from an old blog. The hack The Parliamentary Hack, recently featured in the Independent, was an interesting event.| instantiator.dev
FlipperZero is a digital signals multi-tool. Here’s a short guide to the basics of building an app for it…| instantiator.dev