C33 Technology

Project

The Topsy Project for DEFCON 30

This year at DEFCON, the hacker convention, I joined the Hard Hat Brigade with Topsy, a hard hat that entertains while scanning the wifi environment. Here’s a video I made walking through the basics: I didn’t cover it specifically in the video, but you might be asking: “Um, why?” My answer is: “Why not?

Automation

Posting to Hugo from Drafts

I’ve recently been playing with the popular Drafts app (macOS, iOS, and iPadOS) and I think I get it. It’s not yet essential to me, but the actions are quite powerful and I can Drafts becoming essential after a little while. Earlier this year I setup an automation to post from Craft (my long term text app of choice) to C33Tech.

Media

Hacking the STLToday Paywall v2022

Here we are again. STLToday, the website for my hometown newspaper the St. Louis Post Dispatch, has updated their paywall and, as is tradition, it’s time to take a look, see what they did, and offer suggestions so they can make it better. In short, let’s hack the STLToday paywall.

Infosec

What Is the New Flipper Zero Hacking Device?

The Flipper Zero is a latest hacker tool to hit the market. It’s still early in it’s development bit it already sports a variety of functions that can allow for unauthorized access and malicious code execution. I have one, I love it already, and I spent the weekend playing around and hanging out on the Discord channel.

Automation

A Fully Automated Home Office DND Solution

It was almost two years ago when I created a custom “Do Not Disturb” button for my home office that allowed me to tell my family that I’m in a meeting and please don’t casually pop in. I wrote a post about it, but the up shot is that I cobbled together some parts I had around, 3D printed a case, and wrote some code that so that the button, connected via USB to my computer, would act as a keyboard and fire a keyboard shortcut.

Automation

Glanceable Time Zones With Keyboard Maestro and Stream Deck

We’ve really embraced working remotely within my Studio71 Technology team, to the point that now I have people that I work with every day across seven time zones. There are challenges and benefits of being a distributed global team, but I wanted to solve a quick challenge today and that is to quickly glance and see who is available right now.