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.

If you have an interesting topic to write about, reach out and I'll see what I can do.

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

2020-07-09 Recap: measuring linux performance - how to avoid typical mistakes
2020-07-08 How to measure Linux Performance Avoiding Most Typical Mistakes: Network Guest
2020-07-06 How to measure Linux Performance Avoiding Most Typical Mistakes: Memory Guest
2020-07-02 How to measure Linux Performance Avoiding Most Typical Mistakes: Disk Storage Guest

2020-06

2020-06-30 Adding SWAP to Linux
2020-06-29 How to measure Linux Performance Avoiding Most Typical Mistakes: CPU Guest
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 Guest
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 Guest
2020-04-27 Deploying a highly-available K3s with K3sup Guest
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 Guest
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
2019-04-03 The end of Extended Validation certificates

2019-03

2019-03-24 Archiving the bitcoin-dev mailing lists
2019-03-22 Initial impressions on running a Bitcoin Core full node

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