David Hamann

A few months back I wrote about the first FMProxy release, giving an overview about past research and the idea of the proxy as a product.

Claris has extended the FMUpgradeTool in the recent release, providing support for adding/replacing/deleting more object types, and also added the ability to generate completely new fmp12 files.

TL;DR Alex Dubov and I just released the first public version of FMProxy, a security proxy for FileMaker Server.

I recently rebuilt my monitoring environment for the servers I manage.

I’m currently writing a cross-platform server application in Rust which should also be able to run as a service on Windows.

A while ago I stumbled upon rust-script, a tool which lets you write single-file Rust programs and execute them as if they were standalone script files.

I’m currently in the process of setting up several cloud servers for a new project.

A while back the FileMaker Server (FMS) installer for Ubuntu Linux started checking the currently installed web server versions and giving warnings and an interactive prompt (!)

With a few security features added to the FileMaker Server Admin Console in the last few versions, I decided to play around with them to see how they are implemented.

I was recently asked if it’s possible to post a message to a Slack channel whenever the state of a monitor on allgood.systems changes (for example, a web server goes down, a job starts failing, etc.).

Introduction I had been planning for a while to dive deeper into the fmp12 file format to explore how data is organized and how accounts and passwords are stored.

The problem statement Let’s say you have a (Windows or Linux) EC2 instance in a private subnet and want to access it interactively.

I’m currently in the process of building a computer based on the 6502 microprocesser, following Ben Eater’s instructions.

Since the launch of allgood.systems you were able to monitor if your background jobs, scheduled tasks, cron jobs, etc. were running whenever you expected them to be running.

Introduction While checking out how the FileMaker Pro to Server upload feature worked, I noticed that credentials were encrypted using a RSA public key before being sent to the server.

Back in the dark ages the FileMaker Server admin console (then Java Web Start) allowed you to remotely upload new fmp12 files to the server.

Say you want to allow a non-root user on Linux to execute a couple of scripts as root or another user with more privileges.

I got myself an Aranet4 device to monitor CO2 levels in my office.

A couple of months ago I built a JavaScript application that allows adding points and labels to locations on a building floorplan.

Let’s say you have a long-running Python script that should run uninterrupted or perform a graceful shutdown should a user decide to terminate it ahead of completion.