Matrix, nodejs, and a bunch of fun

I've been setting up a Matrix server, and wanted to create a bot, which would consume webhook calls from Prometheus and Grafana. This can easily be done if you can settle for not having full end-to-end encryption, which I just had to have. So having looked at the Go, and…

PGP finally!

During my yearly review of PGP mail clients, I finally discovered that MailDroid Pro (or MailDroid free if you don't mind ads) finally supports both PGP using MIME and inline. This means that support on my daily driver platforms now works without being cumbersome: Android (MailDroid) Mac/Linux/Windows (Thunderbird…

Letsencrypt.org dual certs

We all love Letsencrypt.org don't we? I've been using them for quite a while, but found out that the renew process using DNS was failing. So I decided to finally move it all to the more simple method with a webserver (NGINX of course is the choice). At the…

Netbeans and Maven 3

Today I had to run some Junit tests from inside a Maven project with Netbeans. Surprise in 8.2 they're still stuck at 3.0.5. So since this project inherited from an upstream POM, which wanted 3.1.5 as a minimum - this would just not work. I…

Wordpress be gone!

It's been quite a while since I even cared much about my blog, as it usually tends to happen for most of us. But I have been really tired of being a security conscious guy, who has a piece of inherently insecure piece of software running. So after a bit…

TLSA, DANE, HTTPS, et all

So time has come to revive my blog, and what better to do that than to shine it up with a bit of the upbeat security of the era. So I've enabled TLSA records and HTTPS (SNI here we come, since Windows XP is finally toasty dead, mmm, oh yeah)…

Planning for the upcoming season

So Christmas is coming up, and aside from having already bought my plane tickets - I'm neither in the mood yet, nor started on decoration the flat or buying gifts yet. So I should probably pick up some speed soon - as there's nothing worse than not being ready for…

DNSSEC joys

So I finally got time to look into having my own DNS zones signed. However Joker.com doesn't allow for doing this yet - at least not if you're running the DNS yourself. So after having been vaguely disappointed - I found out that I was in luck with my…