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Amazon Announces AWS Lambda Powertools TypeScript
A suite of utilities for AWS Lambda Functions that makes structured logging, creating custom metrics asynchronously and tracing with AWS X-Ray easier. Read more…
Hotcaml: an interpreter with watching and reloading
Hotcaml is an OCaml interpreter that starts from a source file and loads it dependencies. When one of the source file changes and passes the typechecker, it is reloaded, as well as all its reverse dependencies. Read more…
Systemd service sandboxing and security hardening
Systemd enable services to run with a whole suite of hardening and sandboxing features from the Linux kernel. Here’s how to get a quick security review of the services running on your system and how to go about hardening their security. Read more…
Security engineering course
This week sees the start of a course on security engineering that Sam Ainsworth and I are teaching. It’s based on the third edition of my Security Engineering book, and is a first cut at a ‘film of the book’. Read more…
I automated my job over a year ago and haven’t told anyone
I work for a mid-size lawfirm that hired me as an IT specialist to handle all of their digital evidence for trials. The law-firm was in the process of changing their evidence managing system to Cloud based and wanted me to to be the only person with admin access to the Cloud, everyone else wouldContinue reading “I automated my job over a year ago and haven’t told anyone”
Skyrim’s myth of the treasure fox finally explained
One of the most enduring myths about Skyrim is it contains treasure foxes. Ever since Bethesda’s open-world fantasy game came out in 2011, players have wondered whether the foxes lead players to treasure. Read more…
Open Infrastructure Map
Is a view of the world’s infrastructure mapped in the OpenStreetMap database. Read more…
The Zen of Drinking Alone
I do wanna talk about it. Not about what my friend wrongly assumed was the dark motivation that would drive me to drink alone, but the very act of drinking alone. Read more…
Jailer: A tool for database subsetting, schema and data browsing
It exports consistent, referentially intact row-sets from relational databases. It removes obsolete data without violating integrity. It is DBMS agnostic (by using JDBC), platform independent, and generates DbUnit datasets, hierarchically structured XML, and topologically sorted SQL-DML. Read more…
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