Other Shadowrun System Analysis: Part Two In the last post I talked about the core resolution mechanics in Shadowrun Fifth Edition. At the end of that post I talked about three questions that are useful for designing games. What
Other Shadowrun System Analysis: Part One Shadowrun has a long history in the information security community. I cannot count the number of people with fond memories of Shadowrun and who love to share stories of their previous adventures. The
Other Strava Heatmap Implications Update (2018-01-29): Whitequark on twitter made a tool to scrape the Strava data.[1] Strava, a company that operates a fitness tracking application compatible with the Fitbit, has released a heatmap tool to
DEF CON Travel Advice I was lucky enough to go to BlackHatUSA and DEFCON in 2017. After I returned I wrote about my experiences here. I also wrote a blog post with point-form travel and conference advice.
Educational Building Public Key Infrastructure in Windows The internet relies on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for SSL/TLS certificates for HTTPS operation, code signing, email certificates, and more. While you can read about PKI, I have found that getting your
Engineering Journals At the start of college I was told to keep an engineering journal. I was told to write down problems I encountered and how I solved them in detail. The idea is that
Educational Why I Hate Mathematicians I was given a question: 1234567891011121314151617181920 / 3 Is the remainder 0 or not 0? I did some classic long division to solve this question: 1234567891011121314151617181920 / 3 = 41522630337040438050539060640 R = 0 I thought I did
Lessons Learned Lessons Learned: October, 2017 Lessons Learned is a collection of issues and failures that I encounter each month. Each entry explains the problem that I encountered, the solution I reached, and what I learned from it. This
Educational Password Managers Over the past couple years I spent time with several password managers. Each password manager I tested addresses different problems. As with all technology, understanding what problems a technology addresses allows you to