After two years of running the Hacker Blood Drive, here’s a blog talking about the progress it’s made so far. Shortly after launching, I created a Red25 group with the idea that if people joined it we could track the donations. This year at some point, the team developed into two members now. Look out Lifeblood, we’re going to put you out of business. Here are some of the stats of this year in comparison to the last few years.

Note: I realised half way through writing this, I really just wanted to share some of the fun I had beekeeping. There’s some finances in there but mainly I just wanted to write about bees. Beekeeping was a hobby I picked up during the COVID adventures of 2020. It feels like forever ago but I picked up a hive in the spring of 2020 after falling in love with gardening.

I am not a financial advisor, this is not advice. This post is just for fun, I’m just a weird dude who enjoys talking about finances. For further advice, please seek a professional financial advisor. Don’t sue me. Credit cards are awesome if you use them correctly. I think when most people think of credit cards, they think of the horror stories, the people who get a credit card with the maximum limit and spend it all on a holiday or shopping.

This blog post assumes you’re working with physical rooted devices, digital devices may work but not tested. If you’ve spent a bit of time testing mobile applications, chances are you’ve come across a mobile application that was built using Xamarin. Xamarin is a cross-platform application building tool for building iOS and Android mobile applications. This platform is becoming more and more common as an app building tool. What’s the problem?

Security conferences have had such a massive impact on where I am today. The first conference I went to was Platypuscon, where I spent most of the day learning with hands on workshops. I was hooked and proceeded to go to as many as I could, assuming my wallet allowed it. I am now fortunate enough to give back. After my keyboard workshop at TuskCon, I was heavily encouraged to submit a soldering workshop at BSides Melbourne (thanks Lukasz).