This is a collection of my technical creations, mainly focussing on information security and other computer related topics. Here is a cool gif of an ascii cat doing a dance:
Technical background
The layout is a modified version of the Jekyll template Chirpy. It uses Bootstrap, Font Awesome Free, Lazyload and JQuery. Google's prettify is used for code highlighting.
This site uses static HTML pages which I generated using a custom generator. It uses Jinja templates. The dancing ascii cat is copied from qqpr.
The webserver software is Nginx. TLS certs are maintained with Let's Encrypt. The webserver is running on a VPS from Hostnet, and the VPS is configured using Ansible.
Licensing
Work on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. The license is extended using a custom PYL license.
Privacy policy
This site doesn't have a cookie popup because there are no cookies. In terms of privacy, this server uses the default Nginx server logs. Nginx logs the User-Agent, the timestamp, your IP address and the requested URI. If you'd like your IP address to be removed from the logs you can send a GDPR removal request via email. Your request will be processed using a state-of-the-art Incremental Bureaucratic Mill® generator. Due to the nature of this generator the processing can take anywhere from eight months to many years.
Maintenance log
July, 2023
Finally gave in to the modern web hype. Site jumped from a few kilobyte to 400 kb of css and 150kb of JavaScript. May the internet gods have mercy on my bandwidth. The site used to look like this:
Now looks way cleaner if you ask me. It's even responsive and whatnot. Changed URL, revamped entire blog generation system. Now uses css from Chirpy and fancy things like Bootstrap.
September, 2020
Made colors more boring, fixed links, added some articles.
April, 2019
Sometimes it's just time to refactor your code, and this week was this time. I've changed the colors and the code for generating the pages. It now has sections and a better view.
July, 2017
I've added a simple method for generating an RSS feed. Most information I got from w3schools. There was a hick-up with XML-escaping, luckily the neat xmlescape method from the Python package xml.sax.saxutils was perfect for this. Also, it turns out that the 'guid' element can just be the URL to an article.