Alex Stevenson-Price

@alexjsp
2 Followers
234 Following
103 Posts

⚠️ This profile is moving to @alexjsp

🧑‍💻 Engineering Manager & Apple developer at Plex.

🏳️‍🌈 Married to the wonderful @dunc

🤓 Made that popular lightsaber app a million years ago.

Location🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland
PronounsHe / Him
Profile / Linkshttps://alex.jsp.scot
GitHubhttps://github.com/alexjsp
Alex Stevenson-PriceFeb 6, 2023
About to move instances, wish me luck! If all goes well, if you follow me here, you'll soon follow me @alexjsp imminently... 🤞
Show threadAlex Stevenson-PriceFeb 5, 2023
Decided I’d make a post on Instagram to announce my glorious return, and it should just be a no other context picture of my dog. Hope my 10k followers like it! 😛 https://www.instagram.com/p/CoSU1kzKBQh/ Quite likely I’ll never post there again though. So how’s @pixelfed? Good?
Alex Stevenson-Price on Instagram: "Sleepy Louis!"

0 Likes, 0 Comments - Alex Stevenson-Price (@alexprice) on Instagram: "Sleepy Louis!"

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Show threadAlex Stevenson-PriceFeb 5, 2023
Since two people have asked already: I have gained absolutely zero more information on how they got into my account and if there was any way I could have prevented it. I’d love to know one day, but I’m getting the sense I never will.
Show threadAlex Stevenson-PriceFeb 5, 2023
Amusingly, hitting that follower count has triggered a few messages and special UI for people with lots of followers. Am I an “influencer” now? 😝
Show threadAlex Stevenson-PriceFeb 5, 2023

An update on my Instagram situation! Start here if you didn't read the original thread: https://mastodon.social/@alexjsp/109760277713815857

So I'm now back into my Instagram account, I think with a lot of thanks to Facebook people who reached out to me. Over the week following the hack it gained over 10k followers(!) and I do not know why; best theory I have is the hackers bought a bunch of follows but it's bizarre.

Alex Stevenson-PriceFeb 3, 2023
eta (moved)Feb 3, 2023
New blog post! "Reversing UK mobile rail tickets", a deep dive into how eTickets and mobile tickets work in the UK!

Featuring Java reverse engineering, interesting uses of RSA, and some interesting security implications...

📝 Read the blog post: https://eta.st/2023/01/31/rail-tickets.html
✨ Decode your own tickets at home: https://eta.st/tickets/
👤 Thanks to @eval, @unlobito, and @puck for their help along the way!
Reversing UK mobile rail tickets

The UK has used small credit-card sized tickets to pay for train travel for years and years, since long before I was born — originally theAPTIS ticket1,which...

Alex Stevenson-PriceFeb 3, 2023
Duncan Stevenson-PriceFeb 2, 2023

Everyone in the UK should watch Brian David Gilbert’s video explaining the US healthcare system. Every time I learn more about US healthcare I’m more shocked. It’s hard to understand why anyone defends it!

Let’s please not have this nonsense in the UK. Defend the #NHS!

https://youtu.be/-wpHszfnJns

A terrible guide to the terrible terminology of U.S. Health Insurance

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Alex Stevenson-PriceFeb 2, 2023
Michael SteeberFeb 2, 2023
This is a reminder to use https://www.movetodon.org one more time before the watertight doors on the Titanic close
Movetodon: Finds your Twitter Friends on Mastodon

Show threadAlex Stevenson-PriceJan 31, 2023
@ivory Now that I’ve provided this incredibly valuable and in depth beta feedback I trust I will of course be fast tracked onto the Ivory for Mac beta immediately. 😛 Looking forward to it. kthxbai
Alex Stevenson-PriceJan 31, 2023
@ivory The dupe notifications fix suggested in the TestFlight notes has indeed worked for me. 💜