SoundWheel I haven't been posting much anything since March of 2021. That's because I have been occupying my free time with selling a house, buying another, staying with my parents for over a month and moving into the new house. If anything stands out in 2021 it's thinking about houses and
Steve Gibson mentioned Hive 3 Steve reached out to me about the recent PHP GIT hack and I provided him some information on how headers are processed in PHP. I have also been keeping him in the loop of my development on XenForo 2. He decided to mention me and HIVE on the Security Now
An interview I was interviewed by a streamer/YouTuber of the Warcraft modding community. It's a long interview and expects a lot of awareness of niche we live in. Anyway, if you think this sounds fun, here's the video: After rewatching it, there are many more things I would have wanted to
The Hive Workshop Remoosed The next version of The Hive Workshop was released as a beta on Dec 28, 2020. After 3 years of work, I am proud to show it off: You can visit it yourself on https://beta.hiveworkshop.com/ You can read the announcement about it here [https://www.hiveworkshop.com/
ZFS snapshot of MySQL in Docker I wrote this script to backup Linux servers running MySQL among other things in Docker on top of the ZFS filesystem. It does the following things in sequence: * locks all databases * snapshots all volumes * unlocks databases * rsyncs over the latest snapshot It always creates the same snapshot because I use
XenForo Experience System I built an experience system for the next version of Hive. That might be news to you if you frequent the site. I won't go into anymore details about it as that's for a news post on HIVE in the next few months. The problem is that I want to
Steve Gibson is using my SQRL add-on for another forum As previously mentioned on this blog, I worked with the Steve Gibson about a year ago to create a SQRL add-on for XenForo, a forum system I have much experience with. He just launched a new XenForo forum [https://forums.grc.com/] using my add-on once more!
Keeping old links alive As mentioned in the past, I am in the process of rewriting the code of Hive to be compatible with XenForo 2. A task I spent a while on was to make sure old links got redirected properly and to have no broken images in the new version. I found
A better <select> for React.js I needed more flexibility when I was styling a for a project some time ago. There are not many CSS rules that apply to the drop down part of it, so I figured I'd find a React component that mimics it. I looked at react-select but it was utterly over-engineered.
Where to put the downlight spots I am doing DIY renovations on my house. I am currently rebuilding the overhang and have reached the point where I need to figure out where I want the spotlights. I have a few requirements: * The spots must be spaced out evenly. * The spots cannot be placed at the position
XenForo Simplify daily spam cleaning on Hive There are some things I do almost daily on Hive Workshop, one of them is deleting advertisements posted by bots. When registering on the site, you are in a trial period which means your posts need approval. This makes it so no user ever experiences spam. No user except for
Tutorial Using create-react-app with older browsers I recently wanted to repurpose an old iPad Mini running iOS 9. I had some issues getting create-react-app to compile my ES 6 to whatever works on this iPad but I figured it out.
SQRL I was mentioned by Steve Gibson again! Steve Gibson just mentioned me again on the Security Now! podcast. Here's a link directly to the position in the video: He is talking about my work on SQRL [https://vindit.dk/integrating-sqrl-with-xenforo/].
Hive Tag selector When searching for resources on Hive, you typically select tags for which kinds of things you want to find. We've had that for many years. Here's a screenshot of today's version: But not too long ago, a member suggested that we had the same option but for excluding tags. The
Project Integrating SQRL with XenForo To aid him in his quest of writing an add-on to make XenForo support SQRL, he posted a thread on the XenForo forums asking for advice. To which I replied with ideas and some sample code that I spent an evening on. Soon after we...
Project The Hive Workshop In 2004 I started the Hive. A website for a Warcraft 3 map I was making with a friend. The map was called Warhammer 40,000 TD. A tower defence with lots of advanced features.
New Beginnings I finally got around to setting up a site for my business. I plan to post semi-regular updates about the things I work on and discuss the solutions to problems I'm facing.
