A backup script that works when you run it and does nothing at three in the morning is almost always PATH. cron reads neither .bashrc nor /etc/profile; it…
A query answering in 20 ms locally and timing out on four million rows. An anonymised data subset that keeps the query plan honest, and the mail, cron…
The OpenSSL bug published on 7 April lets a remote client read 64KB of the server process’s memory per request, repeatedly, leaving nothing in any log. Upgrading the…
Three developers, three PHP patch versions and a bug that existed on one of them. A Vagrantfile, a playbook for everything inside it, and what the rebuild costs.
Moving an application from Apache to nginx usually starts with someone trying to convert thirty lines of .htaccess rule by rule. Most of it does not need converting:…