If you’re like me, you care if your website goes down. There have been services available for years that monitor your site and let you know if it goes down. The one I’ve been using for over a decade is Pingdom, which is great. It gives you tons of advanced options like searching for text within probe responses,…

Few things are more annoying than being stuck inside a bad UI, and withinin virtualization environments is a common place for that to happen. Here’s how to do the three-finger-salute inside VMware. Regular: Ctrl+Alt+Del Full-sized Mac keyboard: FwdDel+Ctrl+Option (Delete below Help key) Abridged Mac Keyboard, Fn+Ctrl+Option+Delete

Starting around October 1st I saw something catastrophic happen to my incoming traffic from Google. Compared to the beginning of the year I have gone from around 10,000 pageviews a day to around 5,000—a 50% loss in traffic. Once I noticed (which took a while), I started reading a ton of articles on all the various potential causes.…

For people looking to get into reverse engineering, the barrier to entry can be fairly steep—starting with the terminology. Here are the differences between a few key tools you will encounter on the path. Decompilers reverse binaries into higher-level languages, like C++. Disassemblers reverse binaries into assembler language. Debuggers allow you to view and change the state of…

Medium has quietly been making a series of changes that are all bad news for writers who still publish articles on their platform.I discovered the most recent—and most significant—change when I emailed the Medium support a few days ago asking to update the canonical links of the e-Residency article that I had just re-written and updated on nomadgate.com.It’s…

To me the main feature is that they’re the beginning of config-file-based infrastructure. Imagine a language that can translate a business requirement into a full tech stack. That’s where we’re heading.— ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇssʟᴇʀ (@DanielMiessler) December 15, 2018 I saw this tweet by Dan Kaminski recently, and gave a quick response as one does on Twitter. But I think…

Amazon has completely crushed it again at this year’s re:invent conference. They continue to innovate a truly frightening pace. And when I say frightening, I mean…in that it creates fear within me. It’s just doing so much, so quickly, that I can’t help but feel uncomfortable. But it’s a good thing. I think. It’s definitely sending a great…

Aliases are one of those things that follow you, from laptop to laptop, and server to server—like snippets of your educational DNA. Here are some of mine that have followed me for two decades: Type f to find things by name using find $ alias f="find . -name" A super quick speed test You can do this with…

There are lots of ways to organize the apps on your phone. You can have lots of screens of single apps, or you can have lots of screens of app folders, or you can have something in-between. I do something simpler. I have one screen of apps, and everything else I have to invoke via the down-swipe. Not…

This year’s WWDC Keynote was all about software, and it had updates for iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. Here were my favorites. iOS Share back in photos Siri shortcut integrations Shortcut editor Travel plans Heading home Screentime Time limits Allowances Memoji Personalized animoji Group FaceTime with up to 32 people Pivot directly from Messages to group FaceTime watchOS…