On Fire and Burnt Out

Dear Tim, I took a break for a bit from active development and did some side projects in the meantime. Kalmany has still been running in the background, so they've had about a dozen elections and assemblies while I've been working on other projects. The kind of projects I've worked with have been to do … Continue reading On Fire and Burnt Out →

Who cares for the NHS really…

Dear Tim, Where am I at? Online votes count! Do your part! Yeah so I've figured out how to pass in an authorization token from the API Gateway into a python Lambda function; it turned out to be really simple: user_id = event['requestContext']['authorizer']['claims']['sub'] constituency_id = event['requestContext']['authorizer']['claims']['custom:constituency'] Yep, turns out the event holds all that data … Continue reading Who cares for the NHS really… →

Is that you?

Dear Tim, Today I've been doing the work behind authentication. I tell you, the idea of confirming that a user is who you think it is, ensuring that a user's data is protected, and giving them the secure options to reset their password, confirm it's them and even to register is... it's a lot! You … Continue reading Is that you? →

Finishing touches

Dear Tim, The system is now running, the site is now updating, elections are happening, and assemblies are voting on policies. It's like real politics - the very first assembly privatised the Health sector. I'm very upset by this development and I'm concerned that the citizens may eventually privatise everything, but we'll have to wait … Continue reading Finishing touches →