I’ve been running my own web servers for years, and one thing you learn pretty quickly is that the internet is full of people and automated programs poking around where they don’t belong. Some are looking for passwords. Others are…
If you grew up with an Apple IIe in the classroom, you know exactly what I’m talking about. That green glow. That hum. The way your eyes felt like they’d been sandblasted after an hour of staring at monochrome green…
I’ve been building quite a few applications lately, and one thing I’ve learned is that finding bugs is easy. Keeping track of them all is another story. I’ll be testing something, notice a button doesn’t work, a page looks terrible…
I run several websites and applications on small instances in cloud infrastructure. For the most part, everything works pretty well. But I kept running into one problem that drove me nuts: updating the server could freeze the entire machine. I…
What wasn’t working I’ve been building a lot of software with AI lately, and one of my biggest frustrations has been regression. That’s when you add or fix something in an application, only to discover you’ve broken something that was…
DamFinger: Finding Security Problems Before Somebody Else Does A website can work perfectly and still be unsafe. It might contain vulnerable code, an outdated configuration, an exposed file, or a password stored somewhere it should not be. That’s where DamFinger…
This file below allows you to specify which packages should automatically be updated or excluded during the update process. By default, only security updates are set to be automatically installed. To exclude a package from being updated, include it in…
In 2013 I wrote a suite of PHP pages using imagemagick that could take MySQL data, shove that data into a .png template, to create broadcast quality high definition graphics, without an editor like Photoshop or TypeDeko. I used this…
The glue on the original fabric headliner installed in the Chrysler Crossfire interior is prone to drying out in dry cold environments. Moisture in highly humid climates makes the headliner glue lose its adhesive nature, and the weight of the…
I’m shocked at how cheap this 4-core, 8-thread processor can be acquired. Drive requirements have increased, and who needs the DVD drive? I’m triple-stuffing this iMac with three SSD drives and buying a slot-load enclosure (USB 2.0) for the old…