Ben Burwell’s Blog

Here are all the posts I’ve written. There’s also an RSS feed.

2023-01-04 Avoid speculative error handling
2022-12-13 How I Connect to Postgres Databases
2022-03-29 Transactions Are Not Locks
2022-03-11 Flame Graphs for Go With pprof
2022-03-05 Contributing to the aerc email client
2022-02-27 Lutron Universal Wireshark
2021-05-14 Intercepting Go TLS Connections with Wireshark
2021-05-06 Debugging HTTP services with mitmproxy
2020-06-27 Learning About Syscall Filtering With Seccomp
2020-04-02 How to Add Row Level Security to Views in PostgreSQL
2020-02-13 MIG welding
2020-02-11 How the Dewey Decimal Classification Works
2019-12-20 Solving the SQL Murder Mystery
2019-09-19 (Almost) Pure CSS Material-like Text Fields
2019-08-06 Buzzword-Driven “Pop Infosec”
2019-07-22 Vim vs Neovim on FreeBSD
2018-10-13 FreeBSD Jail Networking Continued
2018-10-09 How does DHCP work?
2018-09-20 FreeBSD Experiment 1: Jails
2018-09-17 Notes on setting up a FreeBSD home server
2016-04-08 Whitelisting Tor on CloudFlare
2015-04-23 Getting Login to Work on Ubuntu 15.04 with NVIDIA Drivers
2015-03-28 How to Reset a Lost Password on a LUKS-Encrypted Disk in Ubuntu Linux
2015-01-16 Your Website is not Special, Don’t Make Visitors Make Accounts
2014-12-14 Using Showoff for Markdown Presentations
2014-10-11 Configuring CloudFlare’s Universal SSL
2014-05-31 LESS File Compilation for Jekyll and GitHub Pages
2014-05-03 Enhancing Printing at Muhlenberg
2014-05-01 Migrating to GitHub Pages and Jekyll