Getting more out of your Fail2ban logs
With a recent increase in SSH bruteforce attacks, my Fail2ban service is running overtime. For those of you unfamiliar with Fail2ban: it scans log files and...…
Tweak your Ubuntu Message of the Day (MOTD)
Tired of seeing the same message over and over again when you log into your server? Well, I was. Tweaking your MOTD is really easy!…
Know any well-known URL’s?
I never heard about well-known URL’s (.well-known). So I did a little digging and it turns out there’s a lot more than I thought.…
Multi-platform shell scripts
I recently had to write a "multi-platform" shell script and came up with a snippet that might be useful for you too.…
Better dotfiles deployment with Yet Another Dotfiles Manager
Keeping your computer settings and your favorite apps 'n scripts in one place is really easy with your own dotfiles collection.…
Clipboard managers save lives
Clipboard managers to the rescue! They are simple tools that store every bit of copied information in a series of predefined slots, ...…
Setting up Laravel Dusk with CircleCI
Setting up a Continuous Integration pipeline using Dusk is well-documented, including guides for CircleCI, Travis, and a couple of others.…
Unauthorized access when using policies and authorizeResource helper
In order to protect the resourceful controller, Laravel provides a helper function (authorizeResource) that can be placed in the constructor. However, although I was authenticated, I kept hitting a 403 unauthorized error when attempting to show or edit a post.…