Family man, amateur theatre director/performer, #PiWars organiser and #RaspberryPi fan, #CFML / #SQL / #Javascript programmer, Director of Systems Development for an educational charity. Christian but (fairly) Liberal. Politically a bit Left!
Potton, Bedfordshire, England - www.recantha.co.uk
| Website | https://recantha.co.uk |
| Theatre | https://sharnbrookmilltheatre.co.uk |
This is Beampong, a tabletop arcade game for two players that I built around a LED strip and Raspberry Pi Pico.
Portable, battery-powered, with code and construction files fully open source!
It has three distinct play modes: a Pong-style bouncing ball game, a combat mode where you fire colored pixels at each other, and a musical challenge.
Source code: https://github.com/TuriSc/BeamPong
So that White House App they just released? this won't come as a shock but hoo boy is it a treasure trove of terrible security and outright fraud to mine your data and track your location
https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app
The official White House Android app:
Injects JavaScript into every website you open through its in-app browser to hide cookie consent dialogs, GDPR banners, login walls, signup walls, upsell prompts, and paywalls.
Has a full GPS tracking pipeline compiled in that polls every 4.5 minutes in the foreground and 9.5 minutes in the background, syncing lat/lng/accuracy/timestamp to OneSignal's servers.
Loads JavaScript from a random person's GitHub Pages site (lonelycpp.github.io) for YouTube embeds. If that account is compromised, arbitrary code runs in the app's WebView.
Loads third-party JavaScript from Elfsight (elfsightcdn.com/platform.js) for social media widgets, with no sandboxing.
Sends email addresses to Mailchimp, images are served from Uploadcare, and a Truth Social embed is hardcoded with static CDN URLs. None of this is government infrastructure.
Has no certificate pinning. Standard Android trust management.
Ships with dev artifacts in production. A localhost URL, a developer IP (10.4.4.109), the Expo dev client, and an exported Compose PreviewActivity.
Profiles users extensively through OneSignal - tags, SMS numbers, cross-device aliases, outcome tracking, notification interaction logging, in-app message click tracking, and full user state observation.
Perfectly normal hobby
Perfectly normal hobby
Perfectly normal hobby
Ok maybe, #stargate
https://www.revk.uk/2026/03/perfectly-normal-hobby-stargate.html
Just so this doesn't get lost while the US and Israel are attacking Iran and Lebanon.
Turi
small robots
Paul Cutler
Pusher of Pixels
aburtch
RevK 
mago 
jamesb (MW1CGG)