Not long ago I wrote about backporting BCC & bpftrace in Ubuntu with focus on bionic (18.04 LTS). With this new release, there’s a lot of going on: release notes. I “backported” this one already into my PPA. On that note, I did drop support for the disco (19.04) and added support for the upcoming […]

NGINX before 1.17.7, with certain error_page configurations, allows HTTP request smuggling, as demonstrated by the ability of an attacker to read unauthorized web pages in environments where NGINX is being fronted by a load balancer. That’s the essence of the CVE-2019-20372. Yet again, as I mentioned in my NGINX Extended post I was not going to work […]

Backups are one of those things that are usually afterthought. Maybe reason for that was a bit too much of necessary configuration or not enough sensible default choices to fit the bill in the older apps I’ve been trying. Either way — this small, single-binary go application simply nails it. All backups are automagically encrypted […]

One of the things I really love about Mac is the availability of the nifty small utilities that aim at solving one problem and doing it right. Maybe it’s simply my admiration of UNIX philosophy. I’m an avid Last.fm user and I stumbled upon NepTunes while looking for something integrating iTunes with it. With the […]

Ansible 2.9 “Immigrant Song” has just been released. Back in May I already mentioned how slowly but surely Ansible won my heart and I must admit that I’m constantly impressed with what can be done with this tool. It’s a huge release yet again, but there are no major changes — which is good. It […]

I’ve been playing Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom for a while now and I still think it’s the best RPG I played in years. I’m also a big fan of Studio Ghibli and while NNKII wasn’t done in collaboration, the style and inspiration is clear. Some time ago I received as a gift Ni […]

There were three vulnerabilities discovered by Netflix in NGINX: CVE-2019-9511, CVE-2019-9513 and CVE-2019-9516. Both current stable and mainline were patched and point releases had been issued. As I mentioned in my NGINX Extended post I was not going to work on 1.14.x branch any more with the exception of security updates. Canonical backported patches to […]

Panic’s Nova Text Editor entered private beta testing. I don’t exactly look for a new text editor, but I’m watching this one closely. Two reasons: 1) it’s Panic and their software for Apple devices is absolutely awesome; 2) it’s going to be a native editor for macOS. Not some Electron app, but a real deal. […]

I was working for at&t when I first learned about SmartOS. Reason was simple, I’ve been in UNIX/Solaris team so I was more in “this world” back then. I found the concept of this new OS fascinating and it was additionally sprinkled by Bryan Cantrill’s amazing lightning talk. It’s one of those moments when I […]

My first encounter of ZFS happened on Solaris 10 running on some SPARC box. It felt very refreshing after SVM or, goodness me, VxVM. I became a fan instantly as the overall simplicity in administration and promise of reliability were nowhere else to be found. Throughout the years I’ve been playing with it mainly on […]