Infrastructure Engineering: Systems, Networking, Databases & the Internet
Network architecture, internet protocols, database and systems design, and the infrastructure engineering decisions that determine whether real production systems hold up under load.
Why Technology Teams Resist New Technology and What Actually Gets Them to Adopt It
Every technologist eventually meets the same moment. The team agrees that an existing technology has reached the end of its useful life. Everyone agrees the replacement is the right direction. And then, month after month, the team keeps building on the old platform anyway. This is not usually laziness, and it is not usually stubbornness […]
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CloudScale SEO AI Optimiser: Free WordPress SEO Plugin
Written by Andrew Baker | February 2026 Download the plugin here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/cloudscale-seo-ai-optimizer/ S3 download (updated frequently): https://andrewninjawordpress.s3.af-south-1.amazonaws.com/cloudscale-seo-ai-optimizer.zip I spent years working across major financial institutions watching vendors charge eye-watering licence fees for tools that were, frankly, not that impressive. That instinct never left me. So when I wanted serious SEO for my personal tech blog, I […]
Read more →SYN Flood Testing With hping3: Parallel Processes Guide
A SYN flood test using hping3 that allows you to specify the number of SYN packets to send and scales horizontally with a specific number of processes can be created using a Bash script with the xargs command. This approach allows you to distribute the workload across multiple processes for better performance. The Script This […]
Read more →SYN Flood Testing with hping3: A Practical Guide
Getting an application knocked out with a simple SYN flood is both embarrassing and avoidable. Its also very easy to create a SYN flood and so its something you should design against. Below is the hping3 command line that I use to test my services against SYN floods. I have used quite a few mods, […]
Read more →NMAP + Claude MCP: 20 Vulnerability Scans on macOS
Introduction NMAP (Network Mapper) is one of the most powerful and versatile network scanning tools available for security professionals, system administrators, and ethical hackers. When combined with Claude through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), it becomes an even more powerful tool, allowing you to leverage AI to intelligently analyze scan results, suggest scanning strategies, and […]
Read more →Scan SSL/TLS Ciphers With nmap and sslscan on macOS
To retrieve a list of the SSL/TLS cipher suites a particular website offers you can either use sslscan or nmap alternatively you can just use nmap (note: i use “-e en0” to bypass zscaler): Another variant (including cert dates, again “-e en0” is used to bypass zscaler):
Read more →Mac Routing Table: Redirect Website Traffic to en0
This was a hard article to figure out the title for! Put simply, your mac book has a route table and if you want to move a specific IP address or dns from one interface to another, then follow the steps below: First find the IP address of the website that you want to re-route […]
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Bulk Domain Availability Check via CLI (Bash + Python Only)
You have a list of 50 domain name ideas. Maybe you are launching a product, picking a brand, or trying to find something halfway decent that has not already been squatted. Whatever the reason, typing them one at a time into a registrar search box is not a workflow, it is punishment. This post shows […]
Read more →Mac Terminal: Scan TLS Certificates with NMAP and SSLScan
The below script will give you basic information on a websites certificate: NMAP is provides a simple way to get a list of available ciphers from a host website / server. Additionally, nmap provides a strength rating of strong, weak, or unknown for each available cipher. First, download the ssl-enum-ciphers.nse nmap script (explanation here). Then from the same […]
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The Software Engineering Interview Question Hiding Inside i = i++
There is a small interview question I like because it starts with something that looks like a typo and ends up taking you through language semantics, integer promotion, the Java Memory Model, x86 versus ARM, store buffers and finally how to write a counter that actually works. It is a great question precisely because most […]
Read more →curl Command: Get HTTP Response Headers in Terminal
Web devs need to know the http headers their apps/webpages. This can be easily achieved using a browser plugin for Chrome or Firefox. But I prefer to use the command terminal, and curl makes this really easy.
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Why Tech Empires Fall: Arrogance, Control & Collapse
1. Arrogance Is the Drawbridge Every great empire in history has been brought low by a version of the same mistake. The fortress is so strong, the moat so wide, and the walls so high, that the people inside begin to believe they have transcended the rules. They stop serving the people beyond the walls. […]
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