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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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Happy new year all! We're finally out of 2020, yaay! It has been, for lack of a better word, an interesting year. Not intending on becoming Abhi News Network, I'll spare you from having to read about the events of the past year for the thousandth
![Become A 10x <anything> [fail]](/content/images/size/w600/2026/07/pi-hole.png)
web
Beware the barrenness of a busy life. - Socrates (from my quotes file) Today, we're going to learn how to be a 10x anything. We're going to do that by putting slack on mute. But not the simple way. That works, but don't expect 10x
javascript
I've long established that adding heavy duty analytics and tracking scripts to my blog pages isn't the right thing to do. Personally, it is also a bit liberating to not know which article of mine is getting a lot of traffic and which isn't,
programming
I recently wrote a tutorial on getting started with web development. It was a frontend only (meaning covering only HTML, CSS and JavaScript), 5 day tutorial that covered very basic web development topics and concepts like HTML elements, CSS selectors and JavaScript language semantics. Along with learning the basics of
css
As web developers we've used countless UI libraries that give us an interface for creating grids. Now things have become much easier thanks to Grid and Flexbox in CSS, but it is still nice to have everything arranged in nice consistent classes for production use. Recently, I set
css
The best way to learn is to teach, they say. I totally agree, and that's one reason I have so many articles on my blog explaining random topics. Part of the goal was always to understand the topic better myself. I got reminded of it while I was
web
This is the webdev presentation from 26th June 2019. PDF
jekyll
Static site generators are great. No fuss, pure purpose. I use Jekyll because that's what Github supports the best. But these days, with services like Netlify, you have many options. This site aggregates the top ones, so give it a look if you're planning on setting