Ash's Blog

Writing things, mostly for fun

Why can't I pay you?
2022-08-11

Why is it so hard to pay some companies the money they want?

TAGS: Business, UX, Rant
Learning From Public DNS Resolvers
2022-02-23

Free public DNS resolvers are important services, and there's a bunch to learn from them

TAGS: DNS, Cloudflare, Google, TLS, X.509, study
Nintendo DS WiFi History
2022-01-06

Why couldn't I trade Pokemon on my DSi XL?

TAGS: Homebrew, Retro, Nintendo, DS, DSi, WiFi
Secure Headless Raspberry Pi Setup
2020-06-28

Boot a Raspberry Pi with no monitor, no keyboard and no insecure credentials!

TAGS: Raspberry Pi, SSH, Security, Embedded
7DRL 2017 Devlog
2017-03-12

Thoughts and lessons learned from the Seven Day Roguelike (7DRL) challenge in 2017

TAGS: Game Dev, 7DRL, Roguelike, Genergy, C++