Mendhak / Code

In praise of opinionated frameworks

It might appear that the tech industry tends to gravitate towards tools, languages and frameworks that are highly flexible by design. Said technologies will capture attention through numerous blog posts, articles and social media bluster about them, perpetuating their hype cycles. The problem with this perception is that it prematurely…

A simple and effective Bash prompt for developers

In Bash I use a very basic prompt which is simple and effective.

How quantum computers break our security, and what’s being done about it

As a computing end user, I’ve been vaguely aware of quantum computing on the horizon, but haven’t been aware regarding its effect on us. To that end I decided to get a generalist’s understanding of how quantum computers would affect our security, and what’s happening right now in the industry…

Smashtest Tutorial

How to use KeepassXC to serve SSH keys to WSL2 and Ubuntu

I have previously shown how to serve keys to WSL1, here I’ll be going over the method to do it for WSL2.

Host your API Gateway documentation in API Gateway

It’s possible to host your OpenAPI (Swagger) JSON as well the UI from within API Gateway itself, without needing an S3 bucket or any additional infrastructure.

Raspberry Pi: Simple Waveshare e-paper dashboard with weather and calendar

I have created a simple, DIY e-paper dashboard setup that displays the weather and calendar information. It’s minimal, and doesn’t require a lot of power, so it can run on a Raspberry Pi Zero. I have been running it for several years now and it is very reliable.