Frank Goossens: Autoptimize: extra functionality?
So should Autoptimize include Google Quicklink or the similar instant.page JS? Your opinion matters! :-)Possibly related twitterless twaddle:Dipping below the magical 1 second page load time Easter...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Why the EU Copyright Directive is a threat to the Open Web
After much debate, the EU Copyright Directive is now moving to a final vote in the European Parliament. The directive, if you are not familiar, was created to prohibit spreading copyrighted material on...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Google PageSpeed Insights; the great Defer unused CSS mystery...
You know that frustrating Google PageSpeed Insights opportunity “Defer unused CSS”? Well, it’s going to be renamed soon (in Lighthouse first, so GPSI should follow) as per this Github merged pull...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: [SANS ISC] Old H-Worm Delivered Through GitHub
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Old H-Worm Delivered Through GitHub”:Another piece of malicious code spotted on GitHub this time. By the way, this is the perfect example to...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: La boue ou l’air conditionné
Deux articles dont je vous recommande la lecture, pour parler vie au grand air, vélo, écriture et air conditionné.Parfois, la sérendipité de mes lectures sur le web produit un télescopage d’idées, un...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: Detecting Mobile Phones Close to Your Location
Last week, I had a unique opportunity to attend a demo of a “cool” product (I insist on the quotes around cool): A complete solution to track and intercept mobile devices. The company presents itself...
View ArticleTom Laermans: Graphing your PowerDNS services with Metronome, part 1
If you’re running PowerDNS recursor, PowerDNS authoritative server or dnsdist, you may wonder how those services are actually doing. You can add a basic ‘service is functional’ check to your Nagios or...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Two internet entrepreneurs walk into an old publishing house
A month ago, Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic, visited me in Antwerp, Belgium. While I currently live in Boston, I was born and raised in Antwerp, and also started...
View ArticleWard Vandewege: shrinking Prometheus binaries
Out of the box, the Prometheus binaries in the latest release (v2.7.1) clock in rather large, at:-rwxr-xr-x 1 ward ward 60097588 Jan 31 06:18 prometheus -rwxr-xr-x 1 ward ward 38359349 Jan 31 06:19...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Optimizing site performance by "lazy loading" images
Recently, I've been spending some time making performance improvements to my site. In my previous blog post on this topic, I described my progress optimizing the JavaScript and CSS usage on my site,...
View ArticleTom Laermans: Graphing your PowerDNS services with Metronome, part 2
In a previous post, I’ve discussed Metronome, a lightweight graphing framework for PowerDNS services (authoritative server, recursor, dnsdist).In this post, I’ll be documenting how to secure this...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: Formulaire d’admission pour l’enfer
J’étais un peu étourdi, ne sachant pas trop ce qui m’était arrivé.— À quel type d’enfer croyez-vous ?— Pardon ?Le gros type qui m’avait adressé la parole se tenait derrière un bureau, entre un vieil...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: [SANS ISC] Simple Powershell Keyloggers are Back
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Simple Powershell Keyloggers are Back”:Powershell is a very nice language in Windows environments. With only a few lines of code, we can implement nice...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: La visibilité n’est pas un paiement
Lettre ouverte aux organisateurs de conférencesChèr-e organisateur-trice ,Félicitations pour avoir mis en place ton événement, d’avoir trouvé le lieu, les sponsors, les budgets. C’est un fameux...
View ArticleLOADays Organizers: LOADays CfP 2019 is open.
The Call-for-Presentation is open for LOADays 2019. The CfP runs till end of March 2019, 31-03-2019. Please take a look on https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/ The event takes place on 4th and 5th of May 2019...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: As seen on Hacker News
I woke up to see over 5000 visits to my “Do not Donate”-page, apparently I’ve been spotted on Hacker News :-)Possibly related twitterless twaddle:Kick yourself in the butt for motivation! I Am A...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Run a Bitcoin Core full node on CentOS 7
The post Run a Bitcoin Core full node on CentOS 7 appeared first on ma.ttias.be.It's fairly simple to run a full bitcoin node on CentOS 7, if you want to compile one from source. Alternatively, you can...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Limit the disk space consumed by Bitcoin Core nodes on Linux
The post Limit the disk space consumed by Bitcoin Core nodes on Linux appeared first on ma.ttias.be.If you run a Bitcoin Core node, by default it will download the entire blockchain on startup and keep...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Run a Bitcoin Lightning Node on CentOS 7
The post Run a Bitcoin Lightning Node on CentOS 7 appeared first on ma.ttias.be.Similar to installing a Bitcoin Core full node, you can run a Lightning Node too. The same developer dependencies are...
View ArticleLOADays Organizers: Loadays 2019 is a GO!
LOADays 2019 is a GO and will be held on 27th and 28th of April 2018 in Antwerp, Belgium. We'll be opening the CfP shortly.
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