Ian's Blog

I was quite surprised when Bethesda announced an update to Starfield alongside a new DLC this late into the games life.

On March 30th 2016 the first commit of TLS Inspector, back then called Certificate Inspector, was made - and just shy of two weeks later version 1.0 was released.

Turns out buying Air Pods from eBay is risky, who knew?

A few months ago, I very briefly mentioned that I've migrated all my web infrastructure off Cloudflare, as well as having built a custom web service to host it all.

I've been wanting hardware-accelerated video encoding on my Linux machine for quite a while now, but ask anybody who's used a Linux machine and they'll tell you of the horrors of Nvidia or AMD drivers.

According to the Wayback Machine, I launched my website over a decade ago, in 2013.

As an open source developer I frequently get emails from GitHub, most of these emails are notifications sent on behalf of GitHub users to let me know that somebody has interacted with something and requires my attention.

The staff running Cohost have announced (archived) that at the end of 2024 Cohost will be shutting down, with the site going read-only on October 1st 2024.

Recently I have received some questions from users of both TLS Inspector and DNS Inspector enquiring why the apps aren't available on Apple's new Vision Pro headset.

iOS and macOS developers will be familiar with the dreaded distribution certificate, a codesigning certificate issued to you by Apple for signing your release artifacts before you distribute them.

Today I learned something fascinating about how Windows deals with trusted root CA certificates.

It is my joy and pleasure to present to you: the Zune "HD".

Let's talk about some of the simple & practical steps you can take to improve your GitHub account security.

The concept of a "Snapshot" In computing, a snapshot is a point-in-time copy of data or state of a machine.

The online certificate status protocol, or OCSP for short, is a way for TLS clients (like your web browser) to check if a certificate has been revoked or not.

Heads Up You should not be using C or OpenSSL to generate certificates or handle private key material.