Will Cooke (8none1)

Software engineer, podcaster, Linux enthusiast

Welcome to whizzy.org, the personal website of Will Cooke (aka 8none1).

About Will Cooke

Will Cooke is a software engineer, engineering manager and Linux developer based in the United Kingdom. He works at Chainguard on the OS team, co-hosts the Late Night Linux podcast, and was previously Director of Ubuntu Desktop at Canonical.

This site collects articles about software development, Linux, Ubuntu, Home Assistant, solar energy, self-hosting and open source. Learn more about Will Cooke or read the recent posts below.

HOWTO: Add OAUTH to your Alexa Smart Home skill in 10 minutes

Posted on 5 December 2016

Alexa smart home skills require you to provide OAUTH2 so that users can authorise a skill to access the assumed cloud service powering their lightbulbs or any number of other pointlessly connected devices. This makes sense since OAUTH2 is a standard and secure way to grant access for users from... [Read More]

Categories: IoT

bravialib – a Python library to abstract the Bravia web API

Posted on 30 November 2016

I posted this to Github, but thought I would mirror it here too. You can download the code from here: [Read More]

Categories: IoT

24 hours with Amazon Prime

Posted on 18 November 2016

Preamble [Read More]

Categories: Making the world a better place

What to do with Unity 8 now

Posted on 14 October 2016

As you’re probably aware Ubuntu 16.10 was released yesterday and brings with it the Unity 8 desktop session as a preview of what’s being worked on right now and a reflection of the current state of play. [Read More]

Categories: Making the world a better place Ubuntu

Apache – 20 second lag before serving pages

Posted on 13 October 2016

TL;DR: There is no such thing as a “none” directive in Apache 2. If you’ve got “deny from none” or “allow from none” then you’re doing DNS lookups on each host that connects regardless of whether you want to or not. [Read More]

Categories: linux Making the world a better place