On the importance of reading the docs – PHP’s date_parse errors
It’s important to read the documentation, and then read it again once or twice. PHP’s date_parse function parses a datetime string and returns an “array with information...
GDPR for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises – specific needs and derogation
Disclaimer: I’m a Software Engineer who has spent a bunch of time working on issues relating to the GDPR from a systems design/security/process point of view....
perl =~ operator interprets a RHS expression at run-time
This article starts with a conversation about adjusting compiled perl regular expressions and a sudden realisation – which went a little along the lines of:...
How does the GDPR affect my setting of cookies?
Disclaimer: I’m a Software Engineer who has spent a bunch of time working on issues relating to the GDPR from a systems design/security/process point of view....
Is my personal project subject to the GDPR?
Disclaimer: I’m a Software Engineer who has spent a bunch of time working on issues relating to the GDPR from a systems design/security/process point of view....
Territorial Scope of the GDPR
Disclaimer: I’m a Software Engineer who has spent a bunch of time working on issues relating to the GDPR from a systems design/security/process point of...
Joining log lines with sed
It’s often the case when analysing system logs that you want to create a summary bringing together data from different lines of a log –...
Conference, ChromeBook, A VM and Me
I’m at a conference, I have my ChromeBook (vanilla, no local linux installs or any such thing), I have internet and I’ve set up a...
Generating pi (π) using random numbers
I was entertained by Numberphile’s dice-based generation of an approximate of pi so thought I’d throw together a quick script to try this out: random_vals_pi The...
Which ssh publickey was used to access an account
When you have more than one public key set up to be able to access a single account (ie more than one public key listed...