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A whistle-stop tour of the `facl` package, an implementation of the withdrawn draft POSIX 1003.1e standard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

Sorting collections in Eleventy. This JS stuff is hard…

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