Hacker Blood Drive

After a year of running the “Hacker Blood Drive”, here’s a blog talking about the progress it’s made so far. Honestly, this blog is mainly to promote it further. But it’ll be interesting to write up nonetheless. Shortly after launching, I created a Red25 group with the idea that if people joined it we could track the donations. Here is the amount of donations in the last 12 months. As far as I’m aware, I’m the only one in the group currently.
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Blood Donation Data

Donating blood has been a huge part of my life over the last few years. My first donation was through a school program and after a few years off I picked it back up and have become a regular plasma donor now, having just crossed 100 donations a few weeks ago. I thought it would be fun to look back at the data I can pull from my previous donations and share it.
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What should I do after an account has been hacked?

I am by no means a security professional. Well.. technically I am, but, this isn’t advice. This is just written for entertainment purposes. Don’t sue me. Also, pictures of our Australian native bees to break up the wall of text. I recently had a friend of mine get his discord account hacked, I helped guide him through what process he should take to resolve and more importantly prevent this in the future.
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The Importance of Investing (Compound Interest)

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. Also, to break up the investing talk, I’ve added some pictures of bee butts. Enjoy Investing in the stock market is a crucial way to amass wealth over your lifetime. Luckily in Australia, you’re forced to have some exposure to the market with superannuation.
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Let’s Tango - A Custom Keyboard

Over the last year, I’ve been designing and manufacturing a custom mechanical keyboard I call the “Let’s Tango”. After being in the hobby for long enough I thought I’d try my hand at designing and manufacturing a board. Here’s some details about it. The Let’s Tango mechanical keyboard is a 40% split ortholinear board. I took the Let’s Split layout and encased it in a solid aluminium case with a brass weight underneath.
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