Sun 24 April 2022

fpdf2 is a simple & fast PDF creation library for Python that I have been maintaining since mid-2020. In this article, I'm going to present some of the new features that landed since my last post on the subject. Hence, this will cover versions 2.5.0, 2.5.1 & 2 …

Wed 28 July 2021

À E-voyageurs Technologies, je travaille au sein d'une équipe en charge de l'usine logicielle, qui administre depuis plusieurs années une instance Gitlab self-hosted. Cet article contient quelques-unes de nos recommandations à l'intention des utilisateurs de notre Gitlab, ayant pour but à la fois améliorer les performances de leurs pipelines …

Wed 15 July 2020

Linkback protocols are an old breed. They were born in a time where MySpace, Wikipedia & WordPress had just been launched, and Friendster was more popular than this new website called Facebook. Diagram source: PPRuNe article on linkbacks The latest linkback protocol, Webmention, is relatively recent though, as it became a …

Fri 19 October 2018

Almost a year ago, GitHub introduced security alerts. They are an awesome feature. They function as notifications you receive whenever a vulnerability affecting one of your project dependencies. But long after receiving a notification, how to list all security alerts affecting your repositories ? I didn't found an out-of-the box solution …

Mon 08 December 2014

Consider the following Python expression: print("".join(set("ABCDE"))) What do you think it produces ? Not necessarily "ABCDE". Right, but you would expect the result to be consistent, isn't it ? $ for i in {1..3}; do python2.7 -c 'print("".join(set("ABCDE")))'; done ACBED ACBED ACBED Great ! ... But with …

Thu 25 September 2014

Just relaying the information about this "ShellShock" vulnerability: RedHat security blog post the full disclosure on seclists.org This seems to affect Apache, sshd, DHCP clients and even potentially git. TL;DR here is how to check your Bash version env x='() { echo Never called; }; echo YOUR BASH IS VULNERABLE …