After a few weeks my golden Stag Ale was ready to be bottled! A nice golden colour, and an excellent taste
nc netcat opening listening ports – Netcat scan examplesEstablish a connection to a remote port if open: [~]# nc -vn 192.168.2.101 22Ncat: Connected to 192.168.2.101:22.SSH-2.0-OpenSSH\_7.6 As you see, netcat was able to reach 22 port and establish the connection successfully. Read more…
My first time deep frying – I made some beer batter using my homebrew double IPA and coated some nice haddock loins in it and deep fried it!
zmap is an opensource network scanner, most often used to scan whole external internet networks in this tutorial I’ll show you how to run zmap on a local network. One disadvantage of zmap over nmap is that you can only Read more…
Today is brew day! This time I’m going for a Festival kit – Golden Stag, though I do have a change of yeast and extra hops – I opted for the hazy datlyz NEIPA yeast, and a whack of citra Read more…
Suntory Toki Bottling Note A blended whisky from Suntory’s three distilleries: Yamazaki, Hakushu and Chita. Toki has a different composition to another Suntory blend, Hibiki, as its main components are Hakashu single malt and Chita grain whisky. It should work really well in a Read more…
I’ve wanted a picnic bench since we moved in, but lockdown meant we couldn’t get one – I found one for sale the other day, so jumped at the chance!
I think I’ve cracked it this time – it’s very dry (og was 1070 and fg was 990, so very strong – 10.5%abv and very dry)
The hard work earlier in the month is paying off now, we have flowering and growing plants that we will be able to eat one day!
I’ve started making a load of homebrew during the lockdown – my first was an all grain American IPA (just 1 gallon) but this time I decided to try an extract kit I went for the bulldog American IPA – Read more…
I have a Digidesign 003 factory, it has motorised faders, Focusrite preamps, and is still a tasty bit of kit, even these days. It runs over firewire though, which is supported by exactly nothing in 2021. This is a journey Read more…
Lots of work painting, adding raised flower beds, planting tatties, carrots, apple trees, rhubarb, rose bushes and flower bombs! I’ve also removed a lot of thatch and moss from the lawn and added in an arch for the ivy to Read more…
I saw a few videos on YouTube for Tepache – a sparkling low alcohol pineapple drink, so decided to make some
I really like the Highland Park 12, so when this came on offer I decided to try it. Its really good!
If you already have a WordPress theme and have used the customiser to change some settings, then creating a child-theme for more advanced modifications usually means loosing your customisations, or adding them again – Migrating parent to child theme customiser Read more…
For Christmas I got a ‘blend your own whisky’ kit. It contained 7 bottles (5cl) with different whisky inside in order to create your own blend. After tasting each bottle (and comparing to a few other bottles) and following along Read more…
I saw a few posts on reddit and read a couple of blog posts about making homebrew cider from shop bought juice. I decided to try it out – here is how I did it get apple juice put it Read more…
I got a little ring light for my setup so I can get a better lighting for a few videos I have coming up. it was very inexpensive, is powered by USB, and works very well!
Investigating uPNP with python for fun and profit. SSDP is an interesting uPNP protocol – devices advertise their capabilities on the network and leak valuable information. SSDP is very similar to http, except its run over UDP. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cai-ssdp-v1-03 SSDP clients Read more…
lots of beers to try here! they will keep my weekends fully booked for the next few weeks :)
Snapcraft building arm snaps on raspberry pi! This post will focus on wrapping a python script using snap. Its recommended that you do this on ubuntu core 18, available from the ubuntu cd image repo here Install snapd, snapcraft and Read more…
MetaSploit tutorial for beginners This (updated for 2021) MetaSploit tutorial for beginners is meant to be a starting guide on how to use MetaSploit if you have never used it before. It assumes that you already have MetaSploit installed and Read more…
Building custom blocks for WordPress. Blocks in WordPress are built in javascript (ES5, or ESNext/JSX then compiled down to js using webpack and bable). If you have used react or vuejs you will be very familiar with this workflow. Install Read more…
Olivia cracked the screen on my Umidigi :( so I had to get a replacement – I got this (very cheap) cubot phone from amazon – honestly it’s fantastic!
Locavore pinterest chambray affogato art party, forage coloring book typewriter. Bitters cold selfies, retro celiac sartorial mustache.
