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Hacker News Load Spikes
Yesterday I submitted a project to Hacker News (HN) which ended up being ranked 6th for the day. I was excited to see this success, and quite curious to…
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HSTS Preload Adoption and Challenges
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), is a way to signal to a web client that valid HTTPS certificates must be used when connecting to a domain. There…
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A mental model for on-demand pricing
Background Cost optimization is a constant concern in cloud architecture. Cloud vendors often obfuscate costs or frame costs in unhelpful ways. Changing…
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Improving HTTPS on private networks
Background For the last couple months I've been fanatic about understanding why HTTPS adoption on private networks is so poor, and so poorly…
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Name Constrain't on Chrome
When Name Constraints ain't enforced
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ChatGPT: Initial Thoughts
I've been seeing lots of buzz about ChatGPT I'm wary to invest too much of my time chasing after technology that doesn't help me in some way, so I try…
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