Introducing getstat.dev

October 31, 2025

They say necessity is the mother of invention, right? :-)

About a week ago, I published a simple little page called https://getstat.dev. It's live now.

It's nothing fancy; just an easy client-centric way to verify connectivity to the public internet without the excessive bloat of visiting an actual web site. I . . .

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Music for focus - Flow Tunes

September 29, 2025

I just want to boost the volume (pun intended) on this awesome site/service: Flowtunes. It's a great service for having flow-state music playing in the background. Perfect for tackling a stack of emails or coding. Check it out!

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Introducing Hack FAQs

November 24, 2024

After some initial delay, I've (finally?) launched a technical journal site/newsletter: Hack FAQs. It's a consolidation of a few interests and hobbies I've had over the years and my hope is that it'll be in a form that's easy to author/maintain.

What is it, exactly? Think of it like a collection of brief . . .

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The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters

August 03, 2024

I know this exists in exactly one billion places on the Internet, but figured another blog post wouldn't hurt. Digging this:

The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters

Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is . . .

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Original game developer notes for Deus Ex

Whoa. This is awesome.

June 15, 2024

I was feeling a bit nostalgic this weekend and re-watched Warren Spector's awesome GDC 17 presentation describing the development of Deus Ex. If you haven't seen it and have some spare time, check it out here. It has a truly fascinating lifecycle.

During the presentation, Warren alluded to a lot of pre-game development and . . .

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OWASP Cheat Sheet Series

May 22, 2024

I stumbled across this amidst some prior training and thought I'd pass it along. OWASP has a fantastic collection of AppSec cheat sheets here.

A zip archive of all the cheat sheets is available for download here.

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Workaround for delayed response between Logitech Harmony and Roku

April 01, 2024

This was driving me insane for the better part of a day.

Fun fact, Logitech Harmony Hub defaults to talking to Roku devices via network-based remote commands. In theory, it's a really cool idea... until you realize the latency penalties of multiple hops:

Harmony Remote --> Harmony Hub --> Router --> Roku

. . .

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