Things I learned from DDoS attack against AWS CloudFront and WAF
Some things I learned as an AWS customer from a moderately sized (350k req/sec) DDoS attack against AWS CloudFront and WAF.
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I follow the RSS feeds for the following security sites to keep up to date on what’s going on.
Move to Jekyll
As discussed on my personal blog, I’ve moved all the more technical posts from there to this site, and also moved both sites from Ghost to Jekyll (link at th...
Bitbucket Pipeline multiline environment variables
I recently had a case where I wanted to use a ssh private key in a Bitbucket Pipeline, and found out that Bitbucket Pipeline environment variables do not sup...
Azure CLI VM quick commands
A few quick commands for Azure CLI to do stuff with virtual machines, so I don’t have to try and remember them…
Issue expanding Synology NAS volume
This week I decided to take advantage of some sales on hard drives to replace a couple of the older drives in my Synology NAS that were out of warranty, movi...
Plex Podcasts feature is amazingly bad
I recently (re?)discovered that the podcast app I use on Android was using an annual subscription model instead of a one-time fee. I’m OK with paying $10-15 ...
Installing miniflux on FreeBSD
After trying to figure out why FreshRSS does not update my feeds as frequently as I expect – it’s supposed to do it every 20min, but my cron jobs every 30min...
One Apache config for multiple environments
Today I added on to a bit of Apache configuration I wrote several years ago and was impressed by how past me had done it, so thought I’d write a blog post.
Netflix and IPv6 blocks and FreeBSD router
I’ve had issues for several years with mobile devices (particularly iPads) on my home network accessing Netflix. The loading spinner in the Netflix app just ...