Protected: The Legend of the Parklands Fighter

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Trampoline Championship Wrestling

3 minute read Here is Phil. Here is James. They are wrestling. They are enemies! What?! Surprise! Here is Ben. Here is Michael. Ben and Michael are friends. Now, Phil and James are friends. James and Michael are enemies. James will win! Michael needs help. Ben will win. James needs help! What?! Surprise! Now, Ben and Michael are […]

N-Zero-Alpha discovers Feelings

4 minute read This is a story my girls and I did. It’s meant to teach kids to perceive others’ feelings and deal with them. N-Zero-Alpha is a robot with a big job. He’s flying a spaceship full of animals to a distant star, and his friend robot, Buster, isn’t working anymore. Monkey says the animals are worried […]

Penpals Explanation of PHP/cURL/openSSL/TLS/SSL/PayPal Handshake Issues

5 minute read Today I spent a few hours wrapping my head around an issue where some websites weren’t able to connect properly to PayPal.com. I found it pretty tricky to understand because it involved quite a few technologies and programs: PHP: a programming language, and a program to interpret lines of code written in that programming language […]

Short Story: Double Dream

3 minute read I’ve had this idea for a short story since I was probably in middle school. It’s maybe a bit weirder than I’d like. Enjoy! My life is a dream within a dream. One dream happens again and again; the other one never ends. In the first dream, I’m in a hospital, sitting, staring at a […]

The Magic Keys of Esprenevestos Children's Story

< 1 minute read Download it here: The Magic Keys of Esprenevestos. Print it and read it to your kids! The idea is to try to teach kids “computer sense”, a bit like “number sense”. And I think it can help adults too to understand how HTTP is different from HTTPS, what “certificate” and “certificate authorities” are, and even […]

Public Key Cryptography for 3 Year Olds (Part 2 of 3)

4 minute read Or: the knight of Esprenevestos and the magic keys, part 2. Continued from part 1. So the kingdoms of Esprenevestos and Ios happily sent the “packets” (hollowed-out logs probably created by mermaids) to each other across the great ocean. Whenever someone from Esprenevestos locked the packet using Ios’ green key, they were sure that no […]

Public Key Cryptography for 3 Year Olds (Part 1 of 3)

3 minute read Or: The Knight of Esprenevestos and the Magic Keys Once there two countries, Esprenevestos and Ios, which were separated by a great ocean. In this ocean there were small hollowed-out logs adrift, called packets, with lids on them that floated back and forth from one land to the other with the tide. Some folks said […]