What every developer should know about security
This advice covers 80% of what I learned in half a decade as a pentester. Use it to your advantage (or don’t, that’s up to you).
Lightweight IT Security Policy for small and medium companies
Small and medium companies often have trouble to formulate what they expect from their employees with regards to security. On the one hand, they often realise it’s important...
Designing your life (Dave Evans, Bill Burnett)
Below are the 5 mindsets the authors introduce to use to design your life. They struck a chord with me, so I put them here to ensure I...
Questions to consider when writing policies, processes or other documents
The ability to write things down is something very human, it’s one of the things that separates us from animals. Writing forces you to structure your thinking and...
It's 2016 and I still managed to have a unicode issue
If you ever run into an issue that looks related to unicode/utf (you get characters such as “\00eb”), check if it’s installed on your system.
The Miracle Morning: summary
Key insights from the book Amazon link
Getting started in pentesting (with DVWA)
Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA) is a great tool to get started with web application pentesting. It lets you experiment with the basics and it doesn’t require you...
How to get started in offensive security
Start with web application pentesting
The testament of a furniture dealer
On December 20th 1976, Ingvar Kamprad (the legendary owner of IKEA) wrote a ‘testament’ outlining his views on business and life. I’m baffled to discover how much insight...
Integrating security and DevOps
Lately, I’ve been fascinated by the DevOps movement. This relatively new movement has a number of concepts at its core that us security folks could (ab)use. ‘Automated testing’,...
Vim Cheatsheet (in progress)
My vim cheatsheet (an ongoing effort)…
Three lessons from my first freelance project
I recently completed my first paid freelance project. Here are some things I wish I had known when I started:
Get someone to look at your code!
Ten months ago, I agreed to build software for a driving school as a side project. Today the project is 90% done, so only the other 90%...
Lesson from a side project
Ten months ago, I agreed to build software for a driving school as a side project. Today the project is 90% done, so only the other 90%...
Opportunities to use monoids
Recently, I was watching this talk by Avi Bryant where he talks about using algebra in programming. The talk is geared towards distributed systems, but I think...
Managing Oneself: summary
Key insights of the book
(Slow but certain) Advancing insight in Haskell
TL;DR I tried to implement something in Haskell but had some trouble. I then went to hang out at the Haskell irc channel and they directed me towards...
Learning Haskell
I’m trying to learn Haskell. This post details some of the steps I’m going through.
From good to great: summary
Key insights from the book
