The First One

I have been publishing for a long time.  Maybe I will troll through some of my other content some day, or even better, scan/retype some of my writing back before the internet existed. But for now, I have taken my most recent website, https://htd.cloud, and have ported it over to support my new personal brand:

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How to Cancel a Huddle Subscription

Case Study on Legal Fraud (aka Subscription Services) Huddle (or https://huddle.team) is a service created by Free Conference Call (https://freeconferencecall.com). The brand is reputable, so I thought I would be safe signing up for their service, but it was impossible to cancel my Huddle account. In fact, they double billed me for both a Free

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Better secrets for Node.js apps? Meet Schluessel

TLDR Secrets. Encrypted. Easy to Use. Much fork. Much secret wow. https://github.com/Pik-9/schluessel About Secrets You know, the naughty bits in your code like API keys & passwords. Pretty much everyone knows, especially if you are using source control (please tell me you use source control. Lie to me, if need be). As people on a

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