Yearly Archives: 2018

CanDoGram – Telegram bot wrapper for Java EE

Introduction So there’s a pretty great wrapper for the Telegram API for Java – check it out here. I started creating a bot in it and, being naturally Java EE inclined, wanted to push it into a Java EE environment.

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Posted in Java

John Statistics

Fact One) Is John failing fast? Yes. Fact Two) 84% of all Johns make up unreliable statistics.

Posted in Uncategorized

Fitting za Bits to Making ze Zquish

Sort of a rambling introduction I picked up a FitBit Ionic recently, partially for the heart rate tracking, but I won’t pretend that a fair amount of the motivation behind it was because it’s the only smartwatch at the moment

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Posted in Javascript, just-dead, Technology

Natis online booking, and the government being too helpful.

Note: this is not the NATIS site, nor does it have any association with it. If you’re looking for the booking system, click this link. Update: it looks like the CATPCHA is now required for every request, so at least an

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Posted in Government, Privacy, Security

Just Dead – my zombies.

Introduction I’ve always loved zombie (no, we’re not supposed to say that word!) films for some reason. There are ranges of interpretations of zombies, their motivations, what they say about humanity, but sometimes you just need to watch Brain Dead,

Posted in just-dead, Unity

Crawling for cyber zama-zamas

Wow So, this post has everything. Crypto-currency. High-speed internet chases. Adventure. Excitement. Government negligence. Life lessons. Spiders. Morphing websites. Inside jobs. Ohhh boy. Crypto-mining: it’s like modern alchemy, turning electricity into gold. Tiny tiny tiny pieces of gold. The uber-summary

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Posted in Front-end, Java, Javascript, Security, Technology