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Statistics on kelma.mt

A few weeks ago I decided to start collecting some statistics on kelma.mt. Turns out most people like to play early in the morning and get it right in 3-4 guesses!

Visualizing AS32934 (Facebook) BGP Outage

A lot has already been said about the 6-hour Facebook outage of 4th October 2021. Instead, I will take a different approach; visualizing it.

Maximizing the chances of finding "the right one" by solving The Secretary Problem

When it comes to love, making long-term decisions is a risky business. How do we know when we've truly found “The One”? Should we settle for the current one? Or is there a better match?

What's Coming in C# 8.0? Ranges and Indices

Ever wanted simple syntax for slicing out a part of an array, string or span? Now you can!

A Weekly, Curated Newsletter

People today suffer from information overload, so I have decided to create a weekly newsletter, curated by me with the articles that (I think) are worthwhile.

Receiving Aircraft Surveillance Data and Contributing to FlightRadar24 and FlightAware

Modern aircraft are equipped with ADS-B; a surveillance technology in which an aircraft determines its position via GPS and periodically broadcasts it, enabling it to be tracked.

Cloudflare Hijacked my Ghost(Pro) Domain

Cloudflare will gladly delegate any of your domains that are pointing to any SaaS provider hosted on their platform. In this article I show how to take back control

Analyzing Data from a Public-Facing Honeypot

What happens if you setup a badly password protected server on the public internet without telling no one? How much time would it take before a botnet would try to hijack it?

Implications of Privacy and Encryption on Smart Devices

In the recent past, there have been numerous debates on the privacy of personal data in devices like smartphones and laptops as well as on online sites like Facebook and Google.

What's Coming in C# 8.0? Records

One of the new features being proposed in C# 8.0 is to introduce Records. They are essentially a very lightweight class that is a collection of fields.

Planning a Wedding the Agile way

One of the duties of the best man is to assist the groom (and bride) in the preparations. It occured to me that Agile might just be the best way to plan a Wedding!

What's Coming in C# 8.0? Default Interface Methods

One of the new features being proposed in C# 8.0 is to add support for virtual extension methods (methods in interfaces with concrete implementations)

What's Coming in C# 8.0? Nullable Reference Types

One of the features being discussed for introduction in C# 8.0 is Nullable Reference Types. A proficient C# Developer might say "What?! Aren't all reference types nullable?"

Bypassing Active Directory Group Policy

Networks that run with users as local administrators have no way to enforce policies on their organization's computers. In this post, I show how and why.

Meeting Woz

What an honor to meet the Silicon Valley icon who has shaped the computing industry in the early days with his design of Apple's first line of products the Apple I and II, and his influence on the Mac