A place for my (mostly security related) thoughts
Redirecting an entire domain is a common requirement that is surprisingly not straight forward in Traefik. When updating this blog to use Traefik instead of Nginx I spent too many hours scouring documentation and Stack Overflow trying to determine how to redirect all of nicholashairs.com to https://www.nicholashairs.
A quick reference for the major changes introduced with each new version of Python.
Poor technical interviews lead to bad experiences for both employers and candidates. Let's change that.
Authentication is central to securing applications and enabling personalised websites. This post discusses the different forms of authentication used in software.
Reachability Analyzer is a fantastic little tool from AWS, however it does have a number of gotchya's.
Today everyone is familiar with usernames and passwords as a way of logging into a website, but where does this fit into the larger picture?
Originally launched in March 2020, domain-park.org was my first attempt at open infrastructure for the web. After 2 years of Alpha, it's time to give this service some tender-loving-care.
Dash is DataDog's annual conference, which like many things in 2020 was held virtually. Here are two of my favourites.
What do security professionals think about? In this post, I'll be providing a much more accurate list of what runs through my head when examining the security of an organisation.
Although the efforts of common web browsers are admirable in making the web a more secure, private place, they're not perfect. Today I'm going to be sharing a couple of browser plugins that you can install to level up your privacy.
Registering domain names that are similar to an organisation's primary domain or brand is common practice in order to prevent competitors or malicious actors from registering them. Unfortunately the current state of email security means that whilst these registered domains can prevent phishing websites, they are typically left
The first in a series of posts that provide simple tips that you can use to level up your own security.
Security is a concept that most of us intuitively understand but struggle to define. In this post I am going to explore what security is as a concept and how it applies to organisations.
A common question I get asked is: "I know how to program but I don't know how to build websites. How do you learn this stuff?". Personally I believe that the best way to initially learn about building websites is to actually build one. In doing
Rebooting my blogging adventures.