Work
- I have decided that I don’t want to focus on search engine optimization anymore. Quite frankly it’s too much work for what I gain from it and I seem to be doing just fine without it. Why the shift? Well I started looking at where and how I find entertaining websites. The only one I found through a search engine in recent memory was https://rogerhub.com and even then it was through his final grade calculator.13-Dec-2020 | 304 Words | 2 min read
How I Leaked Database Credentials
28-Jul-2020 | 1533 Words | 8 min readRunning a server can be difficult and it is very easy to leak important credentials. Much easier than you want it to be. I ended up leaking a dangerous file from one of the WordPress websites I manage, named ‘wp-config.php.save’ to the public internet. It contained passwords to the site database, cookie keys and cookie salts. This created a couple issues, namely the fact that anyone who could access the database server could have had full write permissions. There are a couple reasons why I don’t think this happened, and most of them are due to great default protection by Azure, so I got extremely lucky. I am going to dive in to the events leading up to the incident and then what I did to resolve it.
Don't Trust Client Side Analytics
10-Mar-2020 | 971 Words | 5 min readThe moral of this story is don’t trust client side analytics.
I enable uBlock Origin (a tracking/ad blocker) on ethohampton.com. Seriously, on my own website. I don’t even have ads that I might need to block. So why, you might ask don’t I have my own domain on my unblocked list?