Monthly Archive:: March 2017

Recommended Links #7

I know it’s nearly weekend, but here’s another batch of my recommended reads: An introduction to WordPress shortcodes for developers; VPN’s are not the solution to a policy problem; Marketing a NSFW website on the mainstream, the Pornhub solution; Adding Let’s Encrypt to a WordPress hosted on RaspberryPi; Personal information of jobseekers stolen during hack;

The forums deserve to die

There was a time, about 10 years back when the forums were very popular. In fact I believe that 10 years ago the forums were as popular as blogs are nowadays. Everyone wanted to have a forum, but only a few mastered the art of getting tons of people together on a discussion board using phpBB,

Retargeting becomes more intrusive and lame

I first fell ‘victim’ to retargeting with Chinese websites like Aliexpress or Lightinthebox where you couldn’t access a product without starting to receive tons of spam about similar products. And when I say spam I mean literally tons of spam! So I started unsubscribing from every possible newsletter from the Chinese websites and the spamming

Acunetix releases a plugin for Jenkins

I just got this mail from Damian Fearnley the other day announcing that Acunetix has just released a plugin supporting integration with Jenkins: Hi We are pleased to announce the release of the Acunetix Jenkins Plugin. This plugin for Jenkins, the popular open source Continuous Integration (CI) automation platform, allows development and operations teams to

Recommended links #6

I know it’s Friday and the weekend is near, but here’s a list of cool recommendations: [How To] Add custom fonts to WordPress; The full version of Magix Music Maker is now FREE! Password rules are bullshit; Grep is loosing it’s grip; 21% of the websites still use insecure SHA-1 certificates; Optimize your images for the