I've written up a method to forward DNS lookups for certain domain suffixes to alternative DNS, such as Route 53 inbound resolver, when using macos.

Demonstration of a method to delay execution of a task in a non-blocking manner

Ticking a few items off the checklist, I've added some basic webmention and websub support to the site.

I finally switched off my PHP virtual host, after committing to a new site built with the 11ty platform.

A whistle-stop tour of the `facl` package, an implementation of the withdrawn draft POSIX 1003.1e standard

Today saw an milestone achievement made with this blog! We completed our first automated deployment 😎. Naturally the only way to celebrate such an achievement is to share how it was done.

Maven is okay, but maybe you would like to try gradle instead 😉

I've been exploring the world of Static Site Generators (SSGs)

I've been experimenting with servlet filters, along the same lines as my experimentation with aspects. This post explores servlet filters in a spring application.

Exploring aspect oriented programming approaches using Spring AOP as a starting point

Exploring spring boot and replication, with an easy to adapt example replicated MySQL cluster provided by containerized databases

So enabling DNSSEC was easier than I thought. All I had to do was transfer my domains on a friday night 🎸

Enabling http/2 in Apache 2.4 and Nginx 1.10 under Debian Stretch

A quick-ish guide to building PHP7 alongside your PHP5 packaged version in Debian Wheezy.

Favicons are a prominent feature of the modern web, from browser tabs to RSS readers. Here I show how to convert ICO favicons to PNGs for use on web pages.

Git: changed files between two commits