contactjson feedrss
Call diverts to bypass Message2Txt
2022-07-16
GMS short codes to bypass the use of MessageBank and Message2Txt.

Save To Instapaper iOS shortcut
2022-03-27
A Save To Instapaper shortcut that confirms its success.

Opportunity cost
2022-01-14
Buying a new car.

Electric vehicle
2022-01-07
So I bought an electric moped.

YouTube RSS feeds
2021-12-02
Subscribe to YouTube channels and playlists with RSS.

Signal proxy
2021-02-05
I’m running a Signal proxy.

youtube-dl iview workaround
2020-07-12
Getting iview working in youtube-dl.

Polo GTI retirement
2020-05-24
The excitement of European car ownership.

Sublime Text 3 settings
2020-01-27
The Sublime Text 3 settings on my Mac.

Powerpoint leeches
2019-06-01
Household power consumption revisited.

Quinoa and sweet potato patties
2018-12-16
A recipe for quinoa and sweet potato patties.

youtube-dl
2018-04-08
How to download YouTube videos the easy way, with youtube-dl.

Mazda 323 fuel logbook
2017-11-17
I recently retired my 2003 Mazda 323 hatchback. This is the complete fuel logbook.

PCalc aviation layout
2017-10-06
A calculator layout including some conversions useful for aviation.

TOTP with oathtool
2017-02-24
Generating TOTP codes from the command line using oathtool.

Image analysis notes
2016-06-25
Some notes I wrote about image analysis, circa 1999.

Remote sensing notes
2016-06-25
Some notes I wrote about remote sensing, circa 1999.

Macintosh full disk encryption revisited
2016-04-10
Creating a disk encryption password on the Macintosh using diskutil coreStorage from the recovery partition.

iOS radio modes
2015-12-18
Using Control Centre in iOS to choose either cellular or wifi for the internet connection.

Zip files
2015-09-20
In search of high compression ratios using artisanal hand-crafted boutique zip files.

About config
2015-09-06
A few Firefox about:config customisations.

Tanami
2015-08-30
A recent visit to the Tanami Desert.

Australian phone numbers
2015-08-17
A summary of the format for Australian landline and mobile phone numbers.

Move to rusl.net
2015-08-12
I acquired the rusl.net domain.

Gmail contacts editing
2015-07-27
Cleaning up auto-complete cruft in Gmail.

Antechinus
2015-07-14
A short video of an Antechinus I spotted walking on the beach the other day.

Recipes
2015-07-09
Recipes.

Pairing certificates
2015-06-11
Prevent a Mac from pulling data from a locked iDevice by deleting the pairing certificates.

Instapaper bookmarklet
2015-05-27
An Instapaper bookmarklet that doesn’t require an active Instapaper session or cookies enabled.

Fieldtest app
2015-05-20
How to open the Fieldtest app on an iPhone.

Memorable password generator
2015-04-24
A recipe for creating a memorable password (passphrase) from a text file.

Linear anomaly in Landsat 8 image
2015-04-23
A linear anomaly in a Landsat 8 image. Probably a contrail.

OS X hacks
2015-03-19
Some useful customisations on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite.

Apple defeats its own two-factor authentication
2015-03-01
Apple’s Text Message Forwarding defeats its own two-factor authentication for App Store purchases.

Landsat 8 processing examples
2015-02-24
Some examples of different image processing techniques applied to Landsat 8 imagery.

Multiplication using difference of squares
2015-01-17
Mental maths technique for multiplication using difference of squares.

iMessage configuration
2014-12-02
How to configure iMessage on an iPhone.

Nullarbor
2014-12-01
Some photos from a drive across the Nullarbor.

HandBrakeCLI video rotation
2014-11-26
Rotating a video using HandBrakeCLI software.

Macintosh full disk encryption
2014-10-10
Full disk encryption on a Macintosh computer with a non-login password.

Madras chicken curry
2014-09-04
Chicken curry made with peanut butter and Madras curry paste: non-authentic.

Tea bag buoyancy
2014-06-05
The pursuit of negative buoyancy in a tea cup.

Photos from the Pilbara
2014-05-04
Helicopter-assisted fieldwork in the Pilbara.

Sublime Text 2 settings
2014-03-28
The Sublime Text 2 settings on my Mac.

Household power consumption
2014-01-13
Using an energy meter to measure the power consumption of household appliances.

Used cars
2013-12-05
Used cars in the Northern Territory.

East Pilbara
2013-10-14
Some photos from work.

Queensland frogs
2013-09-30
Some photos of frogs in Queensland.

Deleting old email addresses from Gmail contacts
2013-09-09
A tutorial showing how to remove obsolete email addresses from Google’s autocomplete suggestions in the Gmail webmail interface.

Landsat 8 satellite images
2013-08-21
Some examples of processed Landsat 8 imagery.

Global SRTMv4 imagemap
2012-11-01
A basic imagemap index for SRTMv4 tiles. SRTMv4, WGS84, lat/long, 3 arcseconds, GeoTIFF tiles, circa 2012 processing. Imagemap hosted locally. SRTMv4 hosted on CGIAR FTP server.

RusL's Homepage
1997-06-03
My first homepage, recovered from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, July 2013. Originally hosted at http://www.vianet.net.au/~swpww/ from 1995 to 1997. Later hosted at http://www.darkwing.net/rusl/ from 1998 to 2000. Some minor editing was done to make it display properly in modern browsers.