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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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…
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.
CQ / AEM - reverting HTTP service config
Ran into an issue today that I couldn’t quickly find a useful fix for with Google, so here it is for posterity.
Testing Ghost on FreeBSD
Doing some initial testing of the Ghost blogging platform on my FreeBSD test system.
Windows 10 and web analytics
I’m very curious how quickly Windows 10 is being adopted. One quick way to get a look at this normally is via web analytics and traffic dashboards for large ...
New blog face
This blog has a new face!
Google adds HTTPS as a search rank signal
Yesterday, Google posted they were adding HTTPS as a search rank signal. This means if your site supports HTTPS your search results will be ranked higher. So...
IPv6 clients hitting this blog
When I moved this server to Rackspace in April (and blogged about it) one of the primary motivations was so I could provide IPv6 support.
Tiny Tiny RSS
In my last post I was thinking about what to do now that Google Reader is headed for end-of-life. As a quick interim step, I installed Liferea on my Ubuntu d...
Git and libcurl with older OpenSSL connecting to newer OpenSSL - error 1112
There’s an interesting edge condition we ran into at work last week around git connecting to a repo over HTTPS.
Bing, which leads to Silverlight and Moonlight
I’ve started trying the new Bing search engine now that Microsoft has relaunched it as a replacement for Live Search. Bing is WAY better than Live was, but s...
Google Chrome on Ubuntu - not yet auspicious
Just for fun, since I use Google Chrome as my main browser on my Windows desktop now, I decided to try the very first public Dev release of Google Chrome for...
Google Analytics and Flash
We ran into an interesting situation at $work with Google Analytics and Flash.
Google Chrome out of beta
So, Google Chrome is out of beta, but still no Mac or Linux versions.
Google Chrome
So, Google has released a browser called Chrome. So far it’s only for Windows, and is being called beta, but Gmail is still beta, so whatever.
LinkedIn SSL cert expired this morning…
Trying to login to LinkedIn this morning with Firefox 3, this morning I saw….
Wordpress code/pre tags
More things for posterity, as I had to search several times to find what I wanted…
Grails on Ubuntu Hardy
Just for the posterity of the Internet, and because I didn’t find an immediately useful answer when searching with Google…
Ruby problems
Interesting post at Matasano with details about some possibly exploitable bugs in Ruby. I’m glad I’m not currently supporting any Ruby on Rails apps, I’m sur...