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I have a love-hate relationship with articles such as this. On one hand, the thought of going back in time and changing certain decisions is always fascinating, and documenting some of those thoughts into text that I can keep coming back is alluring. What is also appealing is to
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Like many of my friends during the late 2000s, I embarked on my internet journey with Firefox. It started with Firefox being the only browser that could reliably resume downloads in the event of a power outage, which were frequent in my part of India, and that was very useful
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I turned 27 a month ago. I've not written a birthday post in a while (last time was turning 24, three years ago) so decided to write something for this one. Not that 27 is a special year or anything (well, I guess it is (un)special in
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I started working at CareerFoundry ("CF") in January 2019. Ever since then, I've changed in many ways. Change is inevitable and we have very limited control over it. In fact, I think that that only tiny bit of control we have over it is the kind
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A couple of months ago I was on a flight and had a thought: How far is the horizon at this very moment? I got my notebook and pen out and tried to solve this using only the knowledge I had, since there was no internet anyway. Of course, many
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XSS, CSRF (or XSRF) and SSRF are common vulnerability in modern web applications where an attacker tries to imitates either a legitimate client to an unsuspecting server or a legitimate server to another unsuspecting server. The basic underlying principle behind each of these attack remains the same; performing action on
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ModSecurity is a web application firewall. It can protect your web application from preying eyes of vulnerability scanners and attackers. It is extremely customizable, and when paired with OWASP's Core Rule Set, covers quite a lot of web technologies and frameworks. In this article, we'll set
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WordPress has been powering my blog since the start of last year. In fact, migrating my Jekyll template to Wordpress was one of the highlights of my new year 2021 and I'm very happy that I did, although I didn't publish as much as I had
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A long time ago I worked on a theme called Elementary for my Jekyll blog. The goal was simple, to create a website that just works, and works fast. In fact, I'll just paste the line from the readme of the GitHub repository. This is my personal blog&
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I see that I've picked up this habit of keeping half finished articles in the backlog. Need to fix that. Anyway, let's hope this article gets to see the light of day on the internet. I wanted to write some of my current thoughts on the
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We've just entered a brand new calendar year, so I'll start with that. Happy new year everyone! New year warrants some new learnings, I know. But I'll start with something that I got into a couple of months ago and that has changed the
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I was going through my phone's gallery when I spotted a photo of Izma from The Emperor's New Groove. It took me by surprise, because I discovered the movie just this year and was absolutely in love with it, especially the Izma character. But the image