Firesphere's musings

Firesphere's musings

Simon Erkelens

I'm a professional web developer with extensive knowledge of Silverstripe, secure web development, Laravel and Symfony, as well as security engineer. I also work with Python, and MicroPython, on a pile of Raspberry Pis and Arduinos. Most of my development work is publicly available on GitHub and Codeberg.

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You have a light switch for that. Right? Or, if you use Philips Hue/Tradfri/Etc., you might have an app for that. I have Philips Hue. Disconnected from the internet. But I still have to turn on the lights that I can't automate, such as...
Every email address in existence. And every non-existing email address, probably, gets spammed. If it was possible to die from too much digital spam, we would probably have a lot less people on Earth.
We have bought a house recently. Our fist one, yay! But a house isn't really a home, until hit has all the necessities! WiFi, coffee, games.
As I have mentioned before, I do quite some reading. And as I'm about to move house, I have packed up a lot of my books. But I wanted to highlight some that I've been reading, or am planning to read.
Need a website? Your first thought is probably WordPress. For a lot of people in the field however, the name sends shivers down their spine. It is both loved and hated in the webdevelopment industry. It's used on about 40% of the visible...
David asked "Who knows that you blog?", and a lot of responses have been written. And well, this is my response.
Of course, as per my previous article, all this OS stuff needs to run on hardware. And what kind of hardware?
In 199something, my parents bought their first computer. A 386 with a Turbo button! The thing was amazing, and I would play any game I could get my hands on.
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