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I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer

A darkroom timer for iPhone and iPad.

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Published: 6 Oct 2026 (12d ago)
Medium: web
Language: English (the page says so itself)
First seen: 6 Oct 2026, 14:14 UTC

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What we can see

85 hygiene score

Certificate issued by YE2, 69 days remaining
Cookie attributes no cookies set
Credentials and payment does not ask for either
No strict transport security
Served over HTTPS
Mail authentication neither published
No insecure resources
Redirects none
Security headers 3 of 5 set
Third-party origins 3
Transport security TLS 1.3

Observed 6 Oct 2026 by fetching the page as a browser would. This describes hygiene and transparency, not safety: a missing header does not make a site dangerous, and a complete set does not make it trustworthy.

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I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer

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