Finding Exercise That Works For You

There’s a saying that you can’t outrun your fork. No matter how much you work out, if you eat poorly, you likely won’t get the results you want. As we talked about earlier this week, tracking calories, eating better, and getting daily steps are the foundation. But when it comes to working out, I’m learning […]
The Ultimate Food Cheat Code: Greek Yogurt

Yesterday we talked about Just Bare chicken as a cheat code for healthy eating. Today, let me share maybe the ultimate food cheat code: Greek yogurt. I get it from Costco in two forms. First, the Oikos cups with different flavors – great snack by itself, but even better when mixed with Costco’s Quaker granola […]
Healthy Food Finds: Making Good Choices Easy

Yesterday we talked about tracking calories and how it matters even if you go over. Today I want to share some specific foods that help me eat better while still enjoying what I eat. I’m a huge Costco fan, and while you can find these elsewhere, let me tell you about Just Bare chicken strips. […]
Getting Started with Health: Focus on What Actually Matters

One of the tough parts about trying to get back into healthy habits is that once you skip one thing you should be doing, you tend to skip the others too. A couple weeks ago, I managed to refocus by identifying the absolute most important things. Ironically, the most important one takes very little time […]
A Different Kind of Blog Post: Getting Healthier

I got a question from an online student about my “Chasing the Tail” project from my Black Hat talk a few years ago, and while it would be a fun one to work on, I wanted to give myself an extra week to work on it. So this week, I thought I’d blog about something […]
The Definitive Rankings for NFC North Helmets

My next irrelevant weekend blog post! This time, we’re ranking the best helmets in team history for the NFC North football teams.
The Definitive Rankings for NFC East Helmets

My next irrelevant weekend blog post! This time, we’re ranking the best helmets in team history for the NFC East football teams.
Cursor: The Ultimate API Easy Mode

Using Shodan’s API: A Simple Authentication Example

We’ve been looking at simple API examples that don’t require any authentication. Today let’s take a look at a simple example that does require some authentication, and for that we’ll use the very popular API of Shodan. If we look at the Python code below, there’s a variable that you would need to enter for […]
Quick and Easy JSON Formatting with Python’s JSON2HTML Library

There are a few Python libraries that have a special place in my heart. Like when I first found out about the XLSX writer library that lets you produce well-formatted Excel spreadsheets with highlighting and all that – I felt bad for how many programs I’d made over the years that just spit out CSV […]