I just noticed an error that had gone unseen: this very site was serving another site’s HTTPS certificate. I started digging what had gone wrong and noticed that EFF’s Certbot had touched the Apache configurations of this site even though I deployed a cert for another site. It had overwritten the configuration and even added more lines to … [Read more…]
I don’t really know the reason, but the integrated password manager in Chrome has become awfully and absurdly slow for me. It usually takes multiple seconds to actually realize that the browser has loaded a page with a login field and that it even holds some credentials for it. And I am not exaggerating this: it really … [Read more…]
In this blog post I’m writing about something that I consider really interesting and also very fascinating from the engineering perspective. I’m a huge fan of computer security related stuff and am intrigued by the many branches (ha!) it covers top to bottom with so many different aspects that you really cannot know everything at … [Read more…]
Let’s Encrypt gives you free DV certificates via easy to use, automated process. Just install their script, or choose one from the gazillion of custom ones, and you’re good to go with a strong encryption to your website and automatic renewals. One thing that really bothers me when people say that Let’s Encrypt is the … [Read more…]
As I posted earlier, I held a Sonic Pi music programming workshop for the 9th graders of Viialan yhtenäiskoulu. It was great. I really enjoyed it. The day was split in two sessions (a couple of hours each) and the goal was to first touch Sonic Pi gently, then get to play with it, and … [Read more…]
Google has just revealed Android Instant Apps at their annual Google I/O developer conference. This struck me as something extraordinary wicked. No kidding. In the past: Your friend sends you a link to a website / you read about something interesting and head to a website The website has a dedicated app… which is compulsory … [Read more…]
I started digging into JavaScript development a little over a year ago. I built my first JS app with jQuery and Ractive. Ractive is, as they say, a template-driven UI library which gives you an easy way to build interactive applications (front-ends) very easily and quickly. I chose Ractive without any spesific reason. I checked out their … [Read more…]
A year ago I saw a job offering by a wee Finnish company called Mehackit. They were offering some sort of creative technology courses for secondary schools and needed teachers. I contacted them. Fast-forward to September 2015 and I was in a middle of a training weekend near Hämeenlinna with a dozen like-minded people roughly … [Read more…]
I had one thought wandering in my mind during the weekend: a blog post or a beginning of a series of blog posts titled Things I learned this week. I thought about it so much, you know the hows and ifs and whys, that in the end I didn’t do it. So here are some keywords concerning … [Read more…]
This is really great. I love it. HTTPS, bring it on! So what Mozilla is aiming to do is to ship Firefox 44 with some new security enhancements: every page, that contains a login form, but is served over plain HTTP, will be marked with the so-really-user-friendly broken padlock. You’ll get the same lock if … [Read more…]