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.
2015-07
- Critical Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in WordPress < 4.2.2
- The Worst Possible DevOps Advice
- My Apple Watch Review
- Apple Favours IPv6, Gives IPv4 a 25ms Penalty
- Enable click-to-play for Flash & Java in Chrome, Firefox & Safari
- Rethinking Security Advisory Severities
- OpenSSL CVE-2015-1793: Man-in-the-Middle Attack
- Why Internet Explorer Won’t Allow Cookies On (sub)domains With Underscores
- Rewriting software from scratch, a lesson learned from Mac OSX 10.10.4’s discoveryd
2015-06
- The Broken State of Trust In Root Certificates
- RFC 7568: SSL 3.0 Is Now Officially Deprecated
- Increasing Nginx Performance With Thread Pooling
- How SSH In Windows Server Completely Changes The Game
- Kickstarter Now Available In Belgium
- uBlock Origin Now Blocking Access To SourceForge
- HHVM Performance Lockdown: Is HHVM Reaching Its Limit?
2015-05
- iOS9 Major Feature: Fixing The Shift Key
- Custom Fonts On Kindle Paperwhite First Generation
- rtop: Remote System Monitoring Via SSH
- Bitrot
- Stunt Hacking: The Sad State of Our Security Industry
- The Scary Revelation: The Advertising Options On Facebook & Twitter
- It’s Cheaper To Upgrade An Illegal Windows Version Than Buy A New One
- Understanding the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin and /usr/sbin Split
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2): RFC7540
- Microsoft Remotely Locking Xbox One’s
- Linux futex_wait bug
- Who Came First: The Source Code Or The Compiler?
- Scan Your WordPress For Security Vulnerabilities With WPScan
- Under The Hood: Facebook’s Cold Storage System
- In Defence Of WordPress
- The (Lack Of?) Durability in SSDs
- uBlock Origin
- French Law Forces Backdoors On ISPs
- Security In Medical Equipment
- What’s The Value Of Owning A Browser?
- Using Webserver Access Logs As A Database Storage System
- 248 days
2015-04
- Increase open-files-limit in MariaDB on CentOS 7 with systemd
- Drupal EngineHack Detection Website
- Varnish VCL: Case Insensitive Regex
- Using Zabbix To Notify If Your Site/Domain Makes It To The HackerNews Frontpage
- Blogging Tip: Send Yourself Blogpost Anniversary Reminders
- Using JavaScript To Read L3 CPU Cache
- Magento eCommerce PHP Remote Code Execution
- Nginx Open Sources TCP Load Balancing
- Double-clicking On The Web
- HTTP/1 vs HTTP/2 Page Loading
- Open Source Puppet 4 Released
- Taking Netflix’s Vector (Performance Monitoring Tool) For A Spin
- Nginx HTTP/2 Support Coming Late 2015
- Nginx Getting JavaScript Scripting Engine
- Varnish Cache 3.0 Is End Of Life
- Linux Kernel 4.0
- When The New TLD .SUCKS
- When Mailing Lists Turn Into Online Forums
- Microsoft’s Nano Server & Hyper-V Containers
- Chrome Version 42 Starts Marking SHA-1 SSL Certificates As Insecure
- HHVM’s Threading Difference – Not The Same as PHP-FPM
- The Irony of Random Passwords For Each Service
- Hosting Superheroes
- Mozilla Blocking CCNIC’s CA Too
- Google’s War on China
- µPuppet & Ensible
2015-03
- Obsessive Efficiency Disorder
- Belgium Leader in IPv6 Adoption
- When Private Browsing Isn’t Private On iOS: HTML5 And AirPlay
- Life Without Ops
- Silly Little IP Tricks
- OpenSSL CVE-2015-0291 and CVE-2015-0286
- Forthcoming OpenSSL releases
- Running Varnish 4.x on systemd
- Debug Varnish 4.x on systemd That Fails to Start
- Virtual Reality As The Next Step After Reponsive Webdesign?
- Drupal engine_ssid_ And engine_ssl_ cookies: You’ve Been Hacked
- Bundling Software Installs With Adware
2015-02
- Up And Close With PHP 7’s New RFCs
- Firefox 36 Fully Supports HTTP/2 Standard
- Tearing Down Lenovo’s Superfish Statement
- HTTP/2 Specification Is Final
- Async MySQL Calls in HHVM 3.6
- Giving HTTPie a Chance
- Three Tiers of Package Managers
- Service Side Push in HTTP/2 With nghttp2
- Puppet: clearing all or a particular node from PuppetDB (exported resources)
- FCC: Net Neutrality in the United States
- Check if Value is Present in Array in Puppet
- Deep Insights: The Kernel Boot Process
- Fosdem 2015 Notes
- Ntimed: an NTPD replacement
- What’s New in systemd, 2015 Edition
- Live Migrations for Containers with CRIU
- Docker Storage Performance Tests
2015-01
- Running a Tor relay: lessons learned
- My Fosdem 2015 Schedule
- Quick tests for GHOST gethostbyname () vulnerability (CVE-2015-0235)
- Modeling Package Manager Dependencies In Config Management
- GHOST: critical glibc update (CVE-2015-0235) in gethostbyname() calls
- The PHP Paradox
- PHP Benelux 2015 Unconference Schedule Saturday