AWS Cloud9 now works on an iPad I've been using Cloud9 as my main IDE for years, since before Amazon bought them. Sitting here with an anemic bottom-barrel 2015 Macbook Pro with just 8GB of RAM and 128GB of SSD
What's wrong with syslog? A lot, actually. I recently had a post make it to Hacker News , lobste.rs , Pinboard, and reddit . This was not my doing, I have no idea who submitted the article. Honestly I was
I'm not burned out, I'm pissed off (Hey HN/Reddit/Lobste.rs! I didn't expect this to take off, there are a couple of unclear things in here. The biggest seeming to be my hatred for syslog. I've published a follow-up explaining why
You Don't Own Your Computer (and that's a good thing) Here's a question: the laptop or cell phone or tablet in front of you... do you own it? Maybe you're financing your phone from Verizon, but even if you paid full price and
Are you defending the Maginot Line? The Maginot Line in World War II was the French defense against invading German forces. It covered almost the entire perimeter of the country, was impervious to attacks from the air or ground,
Was the Consumers Energy natural gas substation fire actually a cyber attack? On January 29th 2019, the Director of National Intelligence sat down in front of the United States Senate and warned them that China and Russia had the ability to shut down natural gas
Triconex isn't a watershed moment... it's just one more forgettable attack The media is quick to cry out about the TRITON attack at Triconex, calling it a “watershed moment” for cyber security. Nonsense. Remember Stuxnet? Whatever happened with that? Did we stop using off-the-shelf
Security should break your company The way we are dealing with security is all wrong. No one can deny it, but no one is doing anything about it. Why? Because “the business”. Security cannot and should not interfere
That time when Digital Ocean destroyed my site It shouldn’t come as any surprise that this isn’t my only blog. I mean, with the high quality content you get around here, of course I have years of experience! It
Make your users work for you Your users are not your enemy. They’re your greatest asset! While you have “eyes-on-glass” they’re eyes on the world. They’re everywhere. They know everything. They know everyone. And they know
Your SIEM Is Worthless (And It's Your Fault) Excessive firewall denies. Multiple login failures. Excessive firewall accepts. Outbound communication to known malicious sites. You’ve probably got these rules on your SIEM. You’re getting alerts from them and you’re
Extending Pi-Hole - Making a Log Aggregator Pi-Hole is a DNS server that runs on a Raspberry Pi and blocks advertisements without needing to install an ad-blocker on every one of your clients. You set your router’s DNS server
A sed difference between Linux and OS X In Linux, I can change the contents of a file from the command line with a simple sed one-liner: sed -i ‘s/^”//’ *.txt What this does is delete any quotation marks that are
Amazon Fire 7" (5th Generation) Recently Amazon was running a sale on the 7″ Fire tablet. Normally $50, this one was down to $40. $40! It only comes with 8GB of storage so I added a 32GB SD
Don't Use Ad-Supported Software For years now I’ve refused to use any ad-supported software that I didn’t absolutely have to use. I pay money for whatever I use, but unfortunately sometimes the companies I pay
Why does Python suck so much? Literally the only thing Python has going for it is it is installed everywhere. People say that about Javascript, but I disagree. I want to write a GUI in Python. Do I use
Miracle Berry A while back on an Ask Reddit thread about what you should buy for under $25, quite a few people suggested Miracle Berry. It’s a lozenge that is supposed to change the
Phaser.js I’m not a Javascript programmer. I’m not a game programmer. I’m not a programmer at all. But everyone needs a hobby, and one of mine is pretending to know what
I don't use the technology you use. But that's fine. Other techies use Android phones, and speak of it like it’s just a given. Of course we will use Android, that’s what we do. Other techies use Linux. Of course they
Productivity Tools I've Used I am a junkie for trying to increase my productivity. Why? Because it’s so low in the areas I really want it to be high in. I know deep down that it’
Visual Basic was the best programming language of all time Of all time! Let’s take a look at how you go about making a Visual Basic program: Download Visual Studio Draw the interface you want Optionally, tie the interface together with small
Gmail Information Disclosure This isn’t a matter of Google snooping on your email. I fully understand that privacy and free web apps don’t really go hand in hand that well. This is a matter
I hate PCs Oh lord how I hate PCs. I don’t mean Windows computers, I’m specifically talking about the “PC master race”, custom-built, high-maintenance piles of junk we call desktop computers. I used to
Why I'm not using Ghost Update - funny enough, I am using Ghost now, 3 years later. Not because I necessarily wanted to, but because my site blew up again and the only backup I had was in