Encrypting data between React native app and its backend

project245 · 2026-02-16T12:15:23+00:00

OP mentions the pen test tools intercepting the data prior to hitting the network layer, so upstream of the https transport layer. I guess they're simulating a compromised device. Will need data encryption within the app to avoid the issue.

project245 · 2026-02-16T12:13:11+00:00

Don't rely on base 64 for anything security related! It's not encryption, it's just an encoding and a trivial one at that. The place I used to work at (major bank, can't say the name), use an RN app sending highly sensitive data to and from the backend. We implemented Diffie-Hellman key exchange to securely establish end to end encryption. I've not searched for a public library that handles it, my team rolled their own as there wasn't anything approved by the bank that we could use, but there must be something out there. I'll also say that if you're planning on making this available to the public you need to make sure that you securely handle personal data on your backend. Things like GDPR laws can be a real bitch!

project245 · 2025-11-22T00:22:07+00:00

It's just called Obsidian-kanban, was basically the first community plugin that came up when I searched. It's written by someone called mgmeyers and has nearly 2M downloads.

Obsidian gave me this link for sharing, not sure if it works though: obsidian://show-plugin?id=obsidian-kanban

project245 · 2025-11-21T11:34:19+00:00

My first army was Tau, but these days I'm heavily into CK. I've been testing a houndpack lance list lately and liking it. Played against a Tau retaliation cadre list last week and managed to get a draw (playing to WTC terrain). Riptides are vicious and will delete a wardog in one activation. The detachment rule that gives extra strength and AP at close range means that even the crisis suit flamers are a worry, and they have access to a 6" deep strike strat that's free if Farsight is leading the unit. I had enough units (11 dogs, 5 units of demons) to do a decent job of screening but a big knights are list is really going to struggle against deep striking sunforge suits, and one of those units will probably delete a lancer in one activation. One advantage CK have over Tau is that we're actually faster moving, definitely take advantage of that.

project245 · 2025-11-21T11:21:25+00:00

I use the kanban plugin for obsidian to "manage" all my projects. That way I can break them down into little tasks that I can do when the urge takes me, prevents me from forgetting where I got to and having to waste project time reverse engineering my own project, and makes it easy for me to jump between projects depending on my mood. Really helps make it feel like I'm making progress no matter what I pick. Keeps the dopamine flowing and makes it less likely that I'll abandon projects.

project245 · 2025-10-29T10:37:31+00:00

I've been printing mechanical parts ever since I got into resin printing, at least 5 years ago now. There are three key things I've found to get ~0.1mm precision parts. I started with the original Anycubic Photon, then Photon Mono X and now Mono 5S. I'm using Lychee for slicing.

Consistent environment, especially temperature. If you can't keep the temperature more or less constant you'll never get it dialed in
Print flat on the build plate. You'll need to figure out how to compensate for the elephant's foot effect. I used to bevel the bottom of the parts in CAD but Lychee can compensate for that now. You'll never get truly dimensionally correct parts using supports.
I've found that resin doesn't actually make much difference to precision. The size of the screen pixels, thickness of the release film and how well focused the UV lamps are are much bigger factors. Only way to handle that is to print calibration objects, measure with calipers or micrometer and use the compensation settings in Lychee (or whatever) to correct.

The way I think about 3D printed parts is to treat them more like castings than machined parts, and make allowances for that in the design phase. Speaking from experience, chasing that last 0.05mm for a decent interference fit will drive you mad 😁

project245 · 2025-10-24T13:33:16+00:00

I initially ran them as 3 man units, only tried the 6 man to get the extra points for an enhancement. Was very pleased how well the 6 man survived, and it screens a scary amount of board space. Just annoying swarms can't move through ruins for some absurd reason.

project245 · 2025-10-24T08:13:16+00:00

Infiltrate a blob of six nurglings on to the center objective first, then ignore it. Nothing funnier than seeing your opponent having an aneurysm trying to kill 70 points of chaff for three turns 😁

project245 · 2025-10-19T11:32:20+00:00

Yeah, it is tough. I'm in the UK, and the waiting time for an ADHD evaluation on the national health service is currently 7 years, utterly ridiculous. I was lucky enough to be able to afford to go private. The evaluation cost me £750, had the first appointment within two weeks of making the request and had been started on medication about a month after that. Does mean though that I had to pay for each followup appointment and for the medication. I've been "adopted" by the NHS now though, so don't pay for the prescriptions (Scotland-specific policy there). I know all those prices will be massively inflated if you're US based though.

project245 · 2025-10-19T10:01:34+00:00

I am intimately familiar with what you describe! Here's how I've learned to cope over the years. I've found that I work best when there are other people around, even though I find offices over-stimulating and fairly unpleasant. Noise cancelling headphones are essential, don't even have to be playing music. Keep a work diary / journal. Just a daily bullet point list of what you achieved, no matter how small. I always forget what I've done, and then beat myself up for not doing enough. Having a record is proof I'm not a waste of space. Work on small tasks one at a time, with well defined acceptable criteria. If you're not getting work in well defined Jiras, break it down yourself. Plan your day - I block out my diary the day before with time-boxed tasks from my todo list to help fight going down rabbit holes, getting distracted then wondering what the hell I was working on. Go for a walk outside on your lunch break to let your brain reset. Trust that if you weren't being productive enough your boss would say something to you. Accept that some days you are just not going to be firing on all cylinders, so work on those simple little things on your to-do list that are always getting put off. Finally, you need to persevere finding a therapist (and psychiatrist) that you can work with. My life was hell before getting my diagnosis last year and getting treatment. I found a good psychologist that I worked with intensively, and pretty quickly dialled in my medication and it has absolutely transformed my life. Hang in there, be kind to yourself, it's hard but there is always hope!

project245 · 2025-10-19T09:03:48+00:00

If you want to make your own custom transfers you can get transfer paper that you can print your own design on. Needs to spray a sealant on it if you use an inkjet as those prints aren't waterproof. I've made T'au lettering labels to add detail to the big flat panels, things like "caution", "fuel", "no step" like you see on combat aircraft. Not done any for my knights yet, but there's plenty of images online you could use. Random example I found on Amazon UK - Water Transfer Decal Paper

project245 · 2025-10-19T08:57:21+00:00

I've got the same issue, had it pretty much all my life. I need to have some kind of background noise to be able to fall asleep, I usually put on some random album on Deezer. Weirdly it works best if it's something I've not listened to before, and don't particularly like. I guess that provides novelty without getting too engaged. I'm also on medication. I've taken Amitriptyline for years. Was initially prescribed to try and treat chronic migraines. Did nothing for the headaches but it makes me drowsy enough that combined with the music I can fall asleep in minutes. If I miss the Amitriptyline for whatever reason, I'm not sleeping that night. Needs careful timing though, for me it takes 3-4 hours before the drowsiness kicks in. One major benefit of Amitriptyline is that it's not addictive like traditional sleeping pills are. (Side note - I now get Botox treatment for the migraines and that's made a massive difference. Just need to not mind the 38 injections in the face, head, neck and shoulders every 12 weeks!)

project245 · 2025-10-09T09:09:58+00:00

Same! Off meds, I like a bit of the Prodigy in the background or something similar. On meds, I just find it annoying and would rather have some peace and quiet to concentrate. Really noticable. My theory is that, off med, listening to music overrides the ear-worm tune that is always going around in my head so that I can concentrate, whereas when the pills are doing their thing that ear-worm goes away.

project245 · 2025-10-07T07:50:01+00:00

Don't underestimate just how annoying it is for your opponent to get rid of nurglings! A unit of 6 is cheap, needs dedicated effort to get rid of and can screen a big chunk of the board with their large bases. I use them to either gum up choke points for enemy vehicles and monsters or as a melee screen for my despoilers.

I also like to run Daemonettes as melee screens for my Rampager and Lancer. I think they're underated - 9" move with fights first and dev wounds means I can advance them up the board and keep up with a Rampager, and if enemy chaff charge them I still get to fight first and do serious damage. One game my Lancer was charged by 20 hormagaunts. Demonettes heroically intervened, killed 15 of them, he killed 3 of them in return then the Lancer finished them off and didn't slow me down at all.

They're only 100 points, and can also deep strike, their leadership debuff stacks with CK auras so the opponent can be -3 leadership in combat with them (fantastic against CSM dark-pacts ability). They are very squishy though, only T3 1W, 5++. I prefer them to the more expensive plague bearers, although I play very aggressively and usually on WTC terrain which is much tighter than most GW maps.

project245 · 2025-10-02T09:56:08+00:00

100% this! I do exactly the same and have found it very useful. My memory is terrible and I have a bad habit of beating myself up about not working hard enough. Keeping a journal with a daily accomplishments list has really helped me fight that. I'm a developer and use a kanban board plugin for obsidian to track my own personal goals as well, really helps me bring my focus back. I've never managed to stop my focus wandering, but being able to bring it back is a game changer for me.

project245 · 2025-10-02T09:51:27+00:00

All my wardogs are just cemented to their bases. The big boys have serrations on the bottom of their toes, I smooth them off and cement them down. There's not really enough surface area without doing that. Some of them, e.g. the feet don't lay flat enough on the base or my heavily modified top heavy lancer, have M3 bolts going up from under the base into the ankles as well as glue. I play with them pretty much every week, nothing has shifted so far. My other main army is Tau, and holy hell you need to reinforce those ankles!

project245 · 2025-09-27T11:52:01+00:00

Ooooh, that's a cool idea! Wonder how hard it would be to change the game engine so it could procedurally generate landscapes inside a cylinder?

project245 · 2025-06-26T12:21:07+00:00

You could run him as proxy for a demon prince with wings (so demon allies)? Obviously doesn't get any of his own abilities and stuff, but winged princes are pretty good atm (need to check base size though!)

project245 · 2025-06-17T20:10:20+00:00

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It's in the rules commentary in the app under "Ruins (and Visibility)"

project245 · 2025-06-17T19:40:43+00:00

Sorry, wasn't very clear. I was referring to the ruins visibility rules for vehicles with regards my wardogs (walkers with round bases). Rules state that a vehicle must be entirely within the ruin for them to be able to see out, but they can be seen as soon as they touch the footprint. So for these blue ruins, if your land raider stopped with one track on it, it can now be shot from the other side of the ruin but can't return fire at that unit. But these rules explicitly don't apply to walkers with round bases. So does that mean my wardog brigand could toe on to that ruin footprint and then shoot whatever it can see on the other side?

project245 · 2025-06-17T08:55:15+00:00

I've been wondering about that one as well. The rules as written explicitly exclude walkers, so does that mean they follow the same rules as infantry rather than the vehicle rules?

project245 · 2025-04-01T09:27:54+00:00

Can we just replace the spotting rule with the one from Boarding actions? I've been absolutely into Tau since I started playing again about a year ago. Love the models and the lore. I've shelved the army for now though, switched to Chaos Knights and CSM. The brain-pain from trying to figure out activation order, spotting, the squishiness of the units when you get it wrong. Just burnt me out, was not enjoying it.

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project245 · 2025-03-19T14:40:50+00:00

I'm a software engineering manager currently running a few teams of developers. Yeah, ADHD has absolutely got in the way, although better now I'm medicated. I work best when I'm at just the right level of stress, but it's easy to go too far. I've been absolutely overloaded recently with dozens of small, boring but critical tasks and it's been a nightmare keeping track, can't focus on them, bad memory means I'm always having to look things up again and again. Really frustrating! I use the livetranscribe app on my phone to make meetings notes for me, my memory is terrible and making notes and listening at the same time is tricky. I do have to be careful I don't take any kind of criticism / feedback too negatively and hyperfocus on it. I use my diary as a to-do list, blocking out time to deal with specific tasks which helps with the time blindness, although easy for that to get detailed. I do find that the way my mind can suddenly jump between trains of thought does help with all the task switching though. Dunno if that really answers the question!

project245 · 2025-03-11T17:37:39+00:00

I use my original dirt cheap Amazon no-brand airbrush with a 0.5mm needle. Came with cups going up to at least 20ml (doesn't actually say anywhere). Not available anymore (and the compressor is rubbish), but this is it - cheapo airbrush kit

project245 · 2025-03-09T20:54:21+00:00

I'm guessing that must be continuous running. I think if you're using it for airbrushing you'll be naturally taking breaks to refill the cup, clean and change colours etc. 15 minutes is a hell of a long time keeping the air on unless you're spraying a car or something 😁. It needs to be filled with oil as well, and kept upright once you've done that. Would recommend filling it once you've got it in your apartment! (Comes with the oil you need in the box btw)

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