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A hand-held blender for pureeing food

One month post-surgery blues

One month post-gastric sleeve surgery, I'm experiencing post-surgery blues and a general apathy towards food.

Bariatric surgery, weight loss and food

Bariatric surgery, weight loss and food

I recently decided to go down a surgical approach to weight loss, specifically gastric sleeve surgery, and I wanted to talk about my thought process before, "during" and shortly after

Performance tuning with XRebel and friends

Performance tuning with XRebel and friends

Analysing and optimising the performance of a complex web application using XRebel, Chrome Dev Tools and the IntelliJ IDEA Profiler.

So you want to be a software engineer

So you want to be a software engineer

Tips for getting started as a software engineer and how it's often better to recruit from within than try and get the moon on a stick

My experience of vulnerability disclosure

My experience of vulnerability disclosure

Talking about my experiences (and frustrations) of trying to responsibly disclose JolokiaPwn.

JolokiaPwn - Information disclosure, DoS and more in Java web servers

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JolokiaPwn - Information disclosure, DoS and more in Java web servers

How the popular tool Jolokia, commonly deployed in J2EE applications but also commonly misconfigured, can be used to disclose information or execute commands, often without authentication.

Asset pipelines as a microservice

Asset pipelines as a microservice

Building a micro webservice in node.js to provide on-demand asset pipelining in a running application.

A first foray into training

A first foray into training

Some reflections on my experience of running a training course for the first time

Masonry-style layouts with CSS grid

Masonry-style layouts with CSS grid

Using CSS grid layout to lay out items automatically, masonry-style