Finding the chase and cutting to it

I’ve had my own website since 2008 (long story, not relevant here). It was compromised in 2009. I was away from home, and while I had backups, there was no way I could get to them. It taught me a few things though: the compromise was completely my fault, so my website had to survive […]

I hate networking, small talk, trying… No, I am not talking about that. I am talking about one of the wonders of modern life, the LAN (local area network) in your house. For some, this is synonymous with Wifi, of course, coming from a telecoms work life, we have an odd assortment of different devices […]

I have spent the past four years of my career helping teams understand their cyber risk. I would say, first and foremost, many of the established ways of doing business fundamentally introduce vulnerabilities into code. I love open source, but there are libraries I do not touch because I only “need” a couple of functions […]

This is a quick recount of forming my own company in the UK from having an idea on the 14th February 2026 and releasing its first product on the 9th April 2026. That’s 7 weeks and 6 days… Actually, I was on holiday, 5,000 miles from my home (as the crow flies) without a computer […]

I wrote my first code in 1986 on a Vic 20. In those days, printers were tremendously expensive compared to multi-purpose computers, so “publishing your code” meant writing it down by hand or saving it to a cassette your friend or client could then use, if they had a tape drive. But back to printers […]

Back when I launched my first web service, I came across the SSL Labs. This is a free service that allows you to check the status of a website in terms of its encrypted transport layer Eh? You know, the little green or grey lock symbol on your web address bar that let’s you know […]

On Friday, Mark Wild, Chief Executive from Crossrail spoke these immortal words – while we understand the engineering, the software is completely new and is performing a complex task. We don’t know how it is going to perform. Today’s computer systems are hugely complex and consist of interlocking pieces which need to work together perfectly.  […]

Whaaa..? This is a technical post and there are no apologies for that. I’ve run my own server for a while now (since 2007 to be honest) with the aim of 24/7 service to the internet.  It’s a small set up and I not only provide some tried and tested tools but also do some […]

I use fedora: I like it, there are a great many cool things you can do for very little effort. OK, don’t know what you’re talking about… Linux – there are several key flavours of Unix out there, and as a preference, I like the ones based on the Fedora definition.  I get some powerful […]

My family may be forgiven for thinking my life revolves around computers. I like to think it doesn’t but it’s when you talk to other mums in parents evening that you realise just how far down the rabbit hole you have indeed travelled. Since losing my computer in early October thanks to difficulty mounting an […]