https://worthen.media/posts/Recent content in Posts on Worthen MediaHugoen-usFri, 08 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://worthen.media/posts/homebridge-server-on-raspberry-pi/Fri, 08 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://worthen.media/posts/homebridge-server-on-raspberry-pi/<h2 id="what-is-homebridge-and-why-should-you-use-it">What is HomeBridge and why should you use it?</h2> <p>HomeBridge is a utility that bridges all sorts of smart home devices into Apple&rsquo;s HomeKit, so you can control them with Siri even if the manufacturer never bothered to support HomeKit directly. It&rsquo;s worth running on something low-power that can stay on all the time — I used a Raspberry Pi 2, which runs about $37.70.</p> <p>You&rsquo;ll also want a 5V 2A micro USB power supply and a fast microSD card. I used a SanDisk Ultra 32GB microSD and had no performance complaints.</p>https://worthen.media/posts/how-i-almost-got-scammed/Thu, 03 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://worthen.media/posts/how-i-almost-got-scammed/<p>Scammers have evolved well past the old &ldquo;Nigerian prince&rdquo; email. A while back, running Worthen Media, I got what looked at first like a completely normal business inquiry. It wasn&rsquo;t, and it took a few days of poking at the details before I realized how close I&rsquo;d come to getting taken.</p> <h2 id="the-initial-contact">The Initial Contact</h2> <p>The first message came from someone calling himself &ldquo;Paul Bills,&rdquo; who said he was hearing impaired and asked whether I accepted credit cards. That struck me as odd right away — why would being hearing impaired matter for a web design inquiry, and why would payment method be the very first question, before we&rsquo;d even talked about the project?</p>