adrift on a cosmic ocean

Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.

Posts tagged with security

  • Don't use AWS SES
    Posted by Oliver on the 14th of August, 2022 in category Tech

    I'm continuing my winning streak of publishing a blog post once every 5 months, and what better reason than to rant about something? I feel slightly conflicted about this one but at the same time I'm annoyed enough to write this... anyway, enjoy.

    Email is an annoying domain of the internet. It features heavily on my list of things I don't want to be responsible for anymore, in addition to DNS, BGP…

  • Now using a Let's Encrypt certificate
    Posted by Oliver on the 29th of October, 2016 in category Tech

    Last week I got a notification from StartSSL that my site certificate was going to expire in a couple of weeks. Since recently there has been some news (I guess you can check the Wikipedia entry for exact details) that suggests StartSSL is in some danger of no longer being trusted by major browsers, I decided to finally get around to moving to Let's Encrypt for my certificates.

    When the project…

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