A few years ago I had the extreme pleasure of co-hosting the Mixer Dev Show with my friend, colleague, and all-around-good-guy @AechDub. Unfortunately, the Mixerverse imploded and things like their YouTube channel got caught up in chaos and deleted. Fortunately, some friends gave me a tip off and I managed to download the old shows […]
Today everyone knows how to build a website. It’s easy really. Just pick a framework, slap on some stock pictures, add jQuery plugins, some text, and boom! You have a website. But what happens when you eschew the big frameworks and CMS’s in favour of a blank page and the one tag to rule them […]
There are many major issues in the world today, two of them being LGBTQ rights and web page bloating. (I didn’t say these issues were equally important!) Want your website to be progressive on both? There’s an easy answer: add a 348 byte SVG pride flag to your website! The author of this site supports […]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) recently called Apple’s refusal to comply with it’s order to make a version of iOS that it could easily hack a “marketing strategy.” link It turns out that this is exactly why Apple doesn’t want to comply, and is also why the DOJ should accept it. Marketing is defined […]
Recently it was discovered that TrendMicro Antivirus installs the TrendMicro Password Manager by default. This in itself is fine, as a password manager is probably a good idea for many users. The problem? They open up a web server on the local machine with a number of security problems, and on top of that provides […]
Kubernetes Pods can be an interesting concept to get your head around. Despite the fact that the idea is pretty simple, many people often have trouble figuring out the relationships between pods and all of the other Kubernetes components. In this brief article I will describe pods and how they are used. (more…)
The What Something that an XKCD comic recently pointed out to me in its oh-so-unconventional wisdom was that the passwords that most people think are very secure aren’t necessarily. Most of us have had the media and our IT departments screaming at us for years about how the passwords that people naturally choose have a […]
Chances are the second that you first touched a computer, you had to create a password. Not a big deal… Until you go on the internet. Now, it seems, every site needs to know something about you; your name, your address, sometimes even your credit card info! And to safeguard this information they ask you […]
WordPress started out simple. Since its initial 1.0 release, WordPress has added many user-focused features such as plugins, themeing, custom menus, custom post types, widgets and just about everything else we now have come to love and expect from WordPress – including a permissions system. A permissions system that has encountered a good deal of […]