Open Source & Developer Tooling
Open source software that powers real production systems, and the macOS tooling that keeps high-output engineering teams productive.
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 […]
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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CVE-2024-3094: Detecting the XZ Utils SSH Backdoor
Executive Summary CVE-2024-3094 represents one of the most sophisticated supply chain attacks in recent history. Discovered in March 2024, this vulnerability embedded a backdoor into XZ Utils versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1, allowing attackers to compromise SSH authentication on Linux systems. With a CVSS score of 10.0 (Critical), this attack demonstrates the extreme risks inherent in […]
Read more →Mac Command+Tab: Restore Minimised Windows Like Windows
For those who like to maximise or minimise their windows on a Mac, you will likely be frustrated by the default behaviour of your Macbook (in that it doesn’t restore/focus minimised or maximised screens). Below are a few steps to make your mac screen restores behave like Microsoft Windows: Install Homebrew (if you dont have): […]
Read more →host Command DNS Queries on macOS: 9 Examples
1. Find a list of IP addresses linked to a domain To find the IP address for a particular domain, simply pass the target domain name as an argument after the host command. For a comprehensive lookup using the verbose mode, use -a or -v flag option. The -a option is used to find all Domain records and Zone […]
Read more →Fix DNS Issues Using dig and whois on Mac OS X
When debugging DNS issues its important to verify the local DNS response with the authoritive DNS nameserver. With dig we can directly query the authoritative name servers for a domain, these are the DNS servers that hold the authoritative records for the domains DNS zone; the source of truth. If a correct response is received […]
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CloudScale PageViews: Fix WordPress Analytics Behind Cloudflare
If you run a WordPress site behind Cloudflare, your page view numbers are lying to you. Jetpack Stats, WP Statistics, Post Views Counter and nearly every other WordPress analytics plugin share the same fatal flaw: they count views on the server. When Cloudflare serves a cached HTML page (which is the entire point of using […]
Read more →Memgraph & Claude Desktop: Detect Mule Accounts on macOS
1. Introduction This guide walks you through setting up Memgraph with Claude Desktop on your laptop to analyze relationships between mule accounts in banking systems. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have a working setup where Claude can query and visualize banking transaction patterns to identify potential mule account networks. Why Graph Databases for […]
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ESB vs Kafka: Why Microservices Are Replacing Enterprise Buses
1. Introduction The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) once promised to be the silver bullet for enterprise integration. Organizations invested millions in platforms like MuleSoft, IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, and TIBCO BusinessWorks, believing they would solve all their integration challenges. Today, these same organizations are discovering that their ESB has become their biggest architectural […]
Read more →iPhone to MacBook Photo Transfer Script: Complete Guide
Annoying Apple never quite got around to making it easy to offload images from your iPhone to your Macbook. So below is a complete guide to automatically download photos and videos from your iPhone to your MacBook, with options to filter by pattern and date, and organize into folders by creation date. Prerequisites Install the […]
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Java 27 for Banks: What Actually Matters, Ranked
Java 27 went GA on 15 September 2026 with nine JEPs, and if you skim the release notes you’d be forgiven for shrugging. Five of those nine are still preview or incubator features, and there’s no big new language toy to get excited about. I think that reading is wrong if you run a bank, […]
Read more →How to Publish Code on GitHub: Automate It Right
GitHub is not just a code hosting platform. It is your public engineering ledger. It shows how you think, how you structure problems, how you document tradeoffs, and how you ship. If you build software and it never lands on GitHub, as far as the wider technical world is concerned, it does not exist. This […]
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