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.
2015-07
- Why We're Still Seeing PHP 5.3 In The Wild (Or: PHP Versions, A History)
- This American Life: The DevOps Episode
- Chrome 44 Sending HTTPs Header By Mistake, Breaking (Some) Web Applications
- 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