I recently encountered a network issue where my WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) distro was unable to retrieve DNS and connect to the internet without me changing /etc/resolv.conf. Likewise, Windows was unable to connect to the WSL2 ports via localhost. To quickly workaround these issues, I set my nameserver to be 1.1.1.1 in /etc/resolv.conf and […]
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is pure awesome, and WSL2 is even more awesome. (If you’ve never heard of it before, it’s Linux running inside Windows 10 – not as a virtual machine or emulator, but as a fully supported environment that shares the machine.) I’ve been testing WSL2 for a few months now as […]
In the original version my talk “Think Like a Hacker and Secure WordPress, live on stage“, I demonstrated a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack. While this attack worked perfectly during WordCamp Brisbane 2019, in-progress changes to Google Chrome (version 80) are bringing about the end of CSRF. (Well, sort of…) In light of this change, […]
I’m a huge fan of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), especially WSL2 which uses a virtualisation layer to bring increased performance and compatibility to WSL. However, one of the few downsides of WSL2 is that it uses a virtual disk (VHDX) to store the filesystem. This means you can end up in a situation where […]
A common misconception that I have observed a lot online is the belief that usernames should be secret, unique and hard to guess. While there are some limited cases where having a secret username is a good idea, most of the time it has no real benefit. Usernames are not secrets and should not be […]
A relatively unknown and underused feature of Git is the ability to cryptographically sign commits. It is an optional feature that provides a way for the author of a commit to prove ownership. It uses the author’s GPG key to leave a signature in the commit that can be checked later. If you’re a Keybase […]
Unless you follow my work closely, you probably weren’t aware that I used to develop apps for the Pebble Smartwatch. The signature feature of my apps was a utilization of the awesome Pebble Timeline feature, which provided a new level of interaction and behavior that suited my apps perfectly. However, since Pebble was acquired by […]
Welcome to my new website. It’s been a long while since I rebuilt my last one (two jobs ago, infact!), so I figured I should launch a new site and get back into the blogging thing. It may surprise some of you, but my site is now running on WordPress again. Yup, WordPress. There are […]
My beloved Logitech MX Revolution died recently, so I upgraded to the new MX Master, and I wasn’t disappointed -it’s just as awesome as the Revolution. 🙂 With the new mouse, I decided to try and use the extra buttons onthe Revolution. All of them work out of the box, with the exception of the […]
Note: I originally wrote and published this article as a DigitalOcean Community Tutorial. Introduction Byobu is an easy-to-use wrapper around the tmux (or screen) terminal multiplexer. This means that it makes it easy for you to open multiple windows and run multiple commands within a single terminal connection.