1,754 Grocery Receipts and What They Say About Food Prices

Everyone has an opinion about grocery prices. Mine was vibes. Eggs felt expensive. Milk felt expensive. Everything felt expensive. I didn’t need to guess, though. I have kept the household books for well over a decade, and every receipt gets scanned and filed next to the ledger. From 2019 to today that is 1,754 grocery receipts from twelve stores. Costco, Superstore, Walmart, Co-op, T&T, Sobeys, Safeway, Save-On-Foods, Bulk Barn and a few others. ...

October 6, 2026 · 11 min · 2217 words · Scott Brown

147 Strangers Were Sending Mail as My Domain and I Had No Idea

For years I had no idea who was sending email as justplainsimple.com. Not a vague sense. No idea at all. I knew the theory. SPF says which servers may send for you. DKIM signs your mail so it survives a forward. DMARC ties those to the domain in the From: header a human actually reads, and tells receivers what to do when neither lines up. I have explained this to other people. I had implemented none of it on my own domain. ...

September 20, 2026 · 8 min · 1567 words · Scott Brown

Introducing Prism: A CLI for AWS Security Hub That Actually Makes Sense

If you’ve ever worked with AWS Security Hub, you know the feeling: thousands of security findings scattered across multiple accounts, buried in the AWS console, and no easy way to share them with your team. Sure, the data is there, but getting actionable insights? That’s a different story. That’s why I built Prism. What is Prism? Prism is a CLI tool that transforms AWS Security Hub findings into something you can actually work with. Written in Go, it collects security findings from AWS and presents them in multiple formats—interactive HTML reports, JSON exports, CSV spreadsheets, Markdown documents, or colourised terminal output. ...

December 4, 2025 · 5 min · 893 words · Scott Brown