Wardriving is the act of searching for Wi-Fi wireless networks by a person usually in a moving vehicle, using a laptop or smartphone. –Wikipedia.org I recently built a portable wardriver out of two D1 Mini Pro (ESP8266-based) modules with external Read more…
Recently I have been working on a project which requires presence detection and I wanted something fairly quick and easy to implement but still be highly customisable. Thanks to some inexpensive Bluetooth transceivers and the OwnTracks iOS/Android app, I have Read more…
A few months ago I documented how I decreased the loading time of a WordPress site in this post. Although those changes made a significant speed improvement the website would still be slow for anybody a long distance from the Read more…
I have a 15″ MacBook Pro with Retina Display (Late-2013) and it is approaching 5 years since it was manufactured. It is still going strong but today I replaced the battery as it was becoming swollen and potentially unsafe to Read more…
I have another WordPress site (aside from this one) which consists of mostly static content and uses Cloudflare for DDoS protection and as a CDN. The server is running PHP 7.0 and has all updates installed but was taking a Read more…
Around 18 months ago I set up a TVHeadend server using an Olimex Lime2 single board computer with the intention of having a single location for television recordings. I wanted something power efficient but fast enough to handle multiple simultaneous Read more…