David JanesVFR in IFR: A possible use for Apple Vision ProApple Vision Pro (henceforth — AVP) is going to fail. It is going to fail, because no matter how good it is (and I’m sure it’s very good)…1 min read·Jan 20, 2024----
David JanesA brief history of technologyIn rough chronological order. Draw your own conclusions.1 min read·Feb 6, 2021----
David JanesSorry Blockchain — Math requires Axioms, the Internet requires TrustI was listening to Oscar Santolalla’s excellent Let’s Talk About Digital Identity podcast the other morning — I believe this one, but…1 min read·Jan 31, 2021----
David JanesJSON Web Signatures, using Node.JS and JOSE(s)The last time I had my head up, about four years ago, JSON Web Tokens (JWT) defined by RFC 7519 were all the rage. What I didn’t know was…2 min read·Dec 31, 2020----
David JanesHow to create an X.509 Public / Private Keypair — with no promptingYou’ll end up with two files “private.key.pem” and “public.cer.pem”. If you’re just playing around — which likely you are — the “subj” is…1 min read·Dec 31, 2020----
David JanesExample of Pulling of Structured Data from Wikidata.orgWikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. Wikidata acts as central storage for…2 min read·Dec 17, 2020----
David JanesTools to Extract Text from WebpagesAs part of my ongoing explorations to understand NLP, I decided to polish up a project I’ve had laying about for years: iotdb-extract. It…1 min read·Nov 14, 2020----
David JanesinFAUN — Developer Community 🐾Quickly setup Kubernetes installations on AWS (or anywhere) using AnsibleIf you’re setting up your own Kubernetes (K8S) installation, there’s usually quite a few steps to be followed, e.g. turning of swap…2 min read·Nov 14, 2020----
David JanesThoughts on using Schema.org for data modelling — common propertiesSchema.org is “…a collection of shared vocabularies webmasters can use to mark up their pages in ways that can be understood by the major…2 min read·Nov 4, 2020----