servers

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

Oct 11, 2014//3 min read

Playing with augeas for fun and profit

Contrary to what Wikipedia says [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augeas], the Augeas I'm using isn't at all related to the 5th labour of Hercules. Rather, it's a configuration editing tool [http://augea

Oct 2, 2014//4 min read

Becoming Acquia Backend Specialist Certified

For the most recent Acquia Professional Services All Hands in Boston I took the Acquia Backend Specialist certification and passed! Following the helpful blog articles about the general certification

May 21, 2014//3 min read

Why Pound is awesome in front of Varnish

We all know Varnish is awesome. I went as far as presenting a topic on Varnish then writing about it. This is a known fact. However, what happens to all that caching goodness when you want to run you

Mar 30, 2013//2 min read

Showing China the banhammer

Recently I started noticing a spike in the overall bandwidth on my server. A little bit of investigation revealed some interesting albeit confusing details. First contact Towards the end of last mont

Jul 5, 2012//2 min read

How I almost got my name .com

I was curious a while ago as to who owned the .com of my name as the domain was parked and I wanted to see if I could make an offer on it seeing as whoever owned it wasn't using it. So I did a whois o