Blogpost archive

This is a list of all my blogposts. They range from highly technical to entry level, from Linux to PHP and server management.

2026-01

2026-01-09 Using AI is no longer optional
2026-01-03 Web development is fun again

2025-12

2025-12-28 A fresh server for this blog

2022-09

2022-09-29 Oh Dear 2.0 launched

2020-11

2020-11-23 wabt-sys compile: error: CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION was not declared in this scope on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
2020-11-23 OpenSSL pkg-config not found
2020-11-23 Could not find directory of OpenSSL installation
2020-11-23 cargo: no such subcommand: +nightly

2020-09

2020-09-16 A new start for DNS Spy

2020-08

2020-08-20 I like big fonts and I cannot lie

2020-07

2020-06

2020-06-30 Adding SWAP to Linux
2020-06-29 How to measure Linux Performance Avoiding Most Typical Mistakes: CPU
2020-06-29 Git commit without the pre-commit hook
2020-06-26 Reading .EML mail files using Mutt on Mac OSX
2020-06-11 Want to improve? Add a delay
2020-06-09 How do we find users for our SaaS?
2020-06-04 Making life easier with cron
2020-06-01 A PHP package to simplify working with percentages

2020-05

2020-05-25 What else can you stuff in a certificate chain?
2020-05-15 MySQL: ERROR 1153 (08S01): Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes
2020-05-14 Create a date in the future for use in Bash scripts on BSD/Mac OSX
2020-05-10 Dissecting the code responsible for the Bitcoin halving
2020-05-05 Creating a 2-of-3 multisig with raw transactions on EOSIO
2020-05-03 Selecting all checkboxes on a page with the Developer Console
2020-05-03 Bash script to send a push notification when string is found in logs

2020-04

2020-04-29 How I write and curate the cron.weekly newsletter
2020-04-29 Build & test your Laravel project via Bitbucket Pipelines
2020-04-27 Deploying a highly-available K3s with K3sup
2020-04-26 Set up a custom 404 page for static sites with Caddy 2
2020-04-26 Different ways of writing crontab syntax
2020-04-26 Clean up Linux Server Using These Simple Tips
2020-04-21 Someone, somewhere, is trying to break into your app
2020-04-21 Looking for guest-writers on this blog!
2020-04-20 Creators vs Consumers
2020-04-16 Composer require specific version while ignoring package dependencies
2020-04-15 Resources to understanding Bitcoin
2020-04-10 How to run HTTP/3 with Caddy 2
2020-04-10 Migrating to Caddy 2

2020-03

2020-03-12 Why your government isn't acting on the Corona/COVID-19 threat
2020-03-09 Forcing a Content-Type header with Guzzle's form_params

2020-02

2020-02-27 I found a loophole to prevent those pesky cookie notices 👀
2020-02-26 Adding a sticky table of contents in Hugo to posts
2020-02-22 Convert a PuTTY private key to openssh
2020-02-05 Why I'm open sourcing the financial side of my business

2020-01

2020-01-31 Accepting new sponsorships for the cron.weekly newsletter
2020-01-17 Dumping specific tables in MySQL using mysqldump
2020-01-13 Auto-restart a crashed service in systemd

2019-12

2019-12-28 What exactly is being sent to Ubuntu in the MOTD?
2019-12-20 Making a JSON prettifier in pure JavaScript
2019-12-19 Name your Laravel Horizon workers for easier debugging at the CLI
2019-12-12 The text adventure game of exiting a telnet session
2019-12-05 Set up a static IP address on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server
2019-12-01 cron.weekly is coming back!

2019-11

2019-11-27 VirtualBox: Failed to open/create the internal network 'HostInterfaceNetworking-en0' (VERR_SUPDRV_COMPONENT_NOT_FOUND)
2019-11-27 Auto-start VirtualBox VMs (headless) after reboot on Mac OSX
2019-11-25 A Caddyfile config example for Laravel
2019-11-21 Remove index.php from the URL in Laravel
2019-11-21 Mac OS: xcrun: error: invalid active developer path, missing xcrun
2019-11-20 How to prevent content-spoofing in Apache's 404 error pages
2019-11-19 Specify a specific SSH private key for git pull/git clone
2019-11-15 Analysing webservers logs locally with goaccess
2019-11-12 A step-by-step guide on migrating from WordPress to Hugo
2019-11-09 How to use ffmpeg to combine multiple videos to one
2019-11-08 Disable HTTP sessions in Laravel to speed up your API
2019-11-06 A fresh new look for this site
2019-11-05 A Linux sysadmin's guide to moving to a new website

2019-10

2019-10-22 strace: operation not permitted, ptrace_scope incorrect
2019-10-21 warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (UTF-8): No such file or directory
2019-10-16 Mac pecl install: configure: error: Please reinstall the pkg-config distribution
2019-10-16 Install PHP’s imagick extension on Mac with Brew
2019-10-14 Laravel’s Tinker quits immediately on PHP 7.3 & Mac
2019-10-09 Chrome’s next steps for security: mixed content checking more important than ever
2019-10-03 A github CI workflow tailored to modern PHP applications (Laravel, Symfony, …)

2019-09

2019-09-19 Is bitcoin dead yet?
2019-09-19 How we used Caddy and Laravel’s subdomain routing to serve our status pages
2019-09-16 Announcing Status Pages for the Oh Dear monitoring service

2019-08

2019-08-13 Time for Change: Going Independent

2019-07

2019-07-10 Trigger an on demand uptime & broken links check after a deploy with the Oh Dear! API
2019-07-09 There’s more than one way to write an IP address

2019-06

2019-06-07 Nginx: add_header not working on 404

2019-05

2019-05-27 Some useful changes to the Oh Dear! monitoring service
2019-05-04 Enable the RPC JSON API with password authentication in Bitcoin Core
2019-05-02 How to upgrade to the latest Bitcoin Core version
2019-05-01 I forgot how to manage a server

2019-04

2019-04-22 Retrieving the Genesis block in Bitcoin with bitcoin-cli
2019-04-22 Requesting certificates with Let’s Encrypt’s official certbot client
2019-04-08 Lazily load below-the-fold images and iframes
2019-04-06 Using Oh Dear! to keep your Varnish cache warm
2019-04-03 Podcast: Exploring Bitcoin with Edd Mann

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