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Christmas Light Controller Upgrade

Last year I setup new Christmas lights with janky DIY ESP8266 based controllers on WiFi. This year they get an upgrade to a Baldrick V2.

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Recent Evolution of Telephone Scams

We are all used to the usual scam calls, an offshore agent trying to convince you that you are due a refund, suggesting that your PC has malware and they…

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Detecting Cloud Native Anti-Patterns with Semgrep

To realise the promise of cloud including auto-scaling, high availability and fault tolerance requires more than a lift and shift for legacy workloads. Applications require a tactical refactor to ensure…

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Lift & Shift is Dead (almost!)

In the age of AI only the unwise still consider Lift & Shift into the cloud, find out more about my rationale here.

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Learn from your attackers – SSH HoneyPot

Due to continued visitation resulting in 404s to this article it has been restored from an older, and lost, version of this blog from content at – https://web.archive.org/web/20170811222717/https://www.robertputt.co.uk/2016/11/28/learn-from-your-attackers-ssh-honeypot/, it may…