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Adam Malone

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Oct 3, 2022//8 min read

Pretty damn secure self hosted Bitwarden

Every year I spend an afternoon reading through my credit card statement to see whether I've accidentally forgotten to unsubscribe from something. This year was no different, and on my travels throug

Sep 16, 2022//1 min read

Blackholing Domains with WireGuard

Short post incoming because it's not worthy of a longer one, but more interesting than dropping a tweet. I noticed that my laptop was still connecting to ad serving domains I'd blackholed in /etc/hos

Jan 29, 2022//7 min read

My first NFT with ENS and IPFS

Ok, so this isn't my first NFT [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token], but the current title hits a lot harder than: > My first NFT that isn't an overpriced JPEG or playing card from an o

Jan 9, 2022//5 min read

A Year at Drift

I know a few of the rough themes that chart my career story, and one of those is following my passions; regardless of how those passions evolve. ----------------------------------------------------

Jan 7, 2021//5 min read

Running Ghost on Tor

Recently I've had the opportunity to play with some new and existing technologies as a mechanism of both upskilling and trying something new. I decided to spend some of that time learning how to crea

Dec 28, 2020//3 min read

Integrating Nginx and Keycloak without OpenResty

Extending on my previous post about creating a custom CA and using client certificates through Cloudflare [/post/client-certificates-custom-cas-and-cloudflare/], I wanted to write about how I integrat

Dec 26, 2020//6 min read

Client certificates, Let's Encrypt, custom CAs and Cloudflare

Over the last week, I've been building a new server for some friends and I to host our own NextCloud [https://nextcloud.com/] instance. Part of this is to keep our technical eyes up-to-date and releva

Oct 28, 2020//15 min read

How I got into technology

Whether I'm making new friends and industry relationships, or even just participating in casual conversation, I often get asked how someone with my educational background ended up in the technology se

Oct 12, 2020//12 min read

Build, test, and deploy PHP applications with GitHub Actions

I learned about GitHub Actions when it was released last year, although didn't investigate further as I'd already configured my hobby project CI/CD pipelines using Travis CI to a satisfactory standard

Sep 8, 2020//10 min read

Delivering with empathy

I remember learning about the difference between sympathy and empathy in middle school. > Sympathy: feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune. Empathy: the ability to understand and

Aug 26, 2020//6 min read

Cache purging with Ghost and Cloudflare Workers

As I have moved my blog platform over to Ghost, I've realised that there will be other parts of my technical ecosystem that will keep me busy tinkering. One such part of that is how to cache every pag

Aug 20, 2020//3 min read

Personal Resets

I find it's highly beneficial to do a personal reset every so often. While I can't speak for others, for me personal resets come in a number of different forms although usually over the course of at

Aug 16, 2020//5 min read

New year, new blog

It's been quite literally years that I've been putting off updating my blog, both in the underlying technology as well as the content that resides within. While August is probably eight months too lat

Oct 9, 2017//2 min read

IP Restrictions behind Cloudflare and Varnish

I've recently been working with a client using Drupal, Varnish, and Cloudflare as part of their digital transformation journey. The client had requirements to ensure that requests coming in through Cl

Dec 22, 2016//2 min read

Using Toran Proxy to speed up Drupal builds

Over the last couple of days an internal thread has been making the rounds at Acquia about speeding up Composer for Drupal builds. With Drupal 8, Lightning and the BLT project making heavy use of Comp

Dec 16, 2016//2 min read

Installing an Origin CA cert in Pound

Recently I was approached by one of the Cloudflare channel team as they advised all customers about Google's announcement [https://security.googleblog.com/2016/10/distrusting-wosign-and-startcom.html]

May 8, 2016//3 min read

Migrating into multisite

Quite often in my role as a Solutions Architect at Acquia, I'll see customers looking to bring sites under the multisite banner in order to enact a more controlled code governance model. Amalgamating

Sep 2, 2015//1 min read

Verifying SSL certificates with drupal_http_request

Recently I was posed with the question about verifying self-signed SSL certificates with drupal_http_request() [https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes%21common.inc/function/drupal_http_request/7]

Mar 10, 2015//2 min read

Making Nagios check OpenVPN

I've been slowly expanding the amount of automation that runs on the servers I personally maintain. With Puppet [https://puppetlabs.com/] as my configuration management system I'm able to deploy chang

Nov 19, 2014//10 min read

Fighting back from Drupal hacks

The last thing any website owner, developer or administrator wants to hear is that they've been hacked. Whether the cause was the fault of insecure passwords, problematic file permissions, a vulnerabi