Tech handyman

Jack of all trades, master of none. That is a phrase that I can certainly apply to myself. Over the years I have traded professions and jobs many, many, many times. Even to this day I am not for certain that what I am doing now will be the same in the next year or two. A lot of people will go through life and work many odd jobs here and there, but can one make a career of odd jobs? There used to be a time when doing odd jobs was something that a person could making a living doing, and I think those days are coming back. Just being a handy man. Can I rebuild an engine to a car? No, but I can replace a bunch of the parts with a little bit of work. Can I build a house? No, but plumbing gas lines and running electrical I am your guy. Need me to write you a new OS? Ha! How about I just install one that works for you. I can see it already, if this job doesn't exist now, it will soon. I programming handy man.

We write scripts, applications, fix broken things, and help set up things. I am not talking about for medium to large companies either. I am talking about mom and pop, your neighbor, their friends, etc. Some of you might already be building websites for random people, and that is a good start. Why stop there? I know I like automation, you should too. You can use your knowledge of scripts to help facilitate somebodies life. But where can you automate? How about everywhere! Lets start with WiFi. It is a good idea to change your passwords every so often, but WiFi is a tough sell to update. I know for me I have the following devices that would have to be updated; Xbox, PS3, Three laptops, Two phones, and a TV. If I change the password I will have to go and update all of those devices. Suck is not the correct word to use on the amount of time and effort that takes. This leads to simpler passwords, as I don't want to type them in all those devices. I need a script that schedules a password change on all of these devices!

Well shit this blog got sidetracked, I guess I will plan this out down below and start building this thing.

First thing I will need is to have a password generator. I am sure there are plenty I can integrate with and not have to reinvent that wheel.
Set up a scheduler that will alert my apps that the password is changing and give them an encrypted version of the password.
Then decrepit the password and reset it on the scheduled time of change.
I will also need a way to reset the password on the router, hopefully I can find one with an API that I can access.


I will start this project on windows devices first, then move on to others. In my following posts, I will point you to the direction of my repository(ies) so you too can see the code.

This was in no way where I was headed with this post, but I like it.