• RDP into a Linux VM through Azure

    Part of my job involves testing vulnerability scanners and running them through the paces before recommending them. In this endeavor, I use a series of Azure VMs that I’ve domain-joined as a sandbox. I’ve been wanting to test these scanners through a Linux Ubuntu VM and decided to boot one...


  • REST APIs and Watson

    I like to make my life easier by automating redundant tasks. At the job I left months ago, I had a role doing UAT and for some of the test cases, made life easier with some Python code that automated some keystrokes and mouse-clicks and got a notice when things...


  • Some Bot-related Items

    Well, the Pablo and Daisy bot has been causing me some issues and with my recent job change, I haven’t put in the time to find a better deployment model. When I first ran the script off my computer, it would run fine for the first two instances, then I...


  • Python, libraries and bots

    Having used python to make automated scripts for work through Selenium and PyautoGui and BeautifulSoup, I wanted to apply this to something that’s not related to my current company’s intellectual property. According to some new sources, nearly 48 million twitter accounts could be bots and nearly two-thirds of tweets come...


  • Lydia Davis interview by the NYtimes

    the following is an interview from the NY Times interview series: By The Book What books are currently on your night stand? Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “My Struggle: Book 2” is on top of the pile at the moment. You’d think, from where the bookmark is, that I’m near the end,...