Welcome to my blog. I'm trying to post things whenever I get inspired to write something. Sometimes it's more often, and sometimes not so much. The subject can vary quite a lot, but it tends to be mostly about tech.
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I have been thinking about writing a series of blog posts about security topics, and I figured I would start from the basics, with the concept of salting hashes.
I'm going to assume that you are all familiar with how hashing works, but just in case you are not, hashing is a cryptographic one way f...
I have been spending a fair bit of time recently thinking about web-apps, what the difference is to a website, and how one should be designed.
The concept of web applications are not new. When I started in the business in 2000, it said "Application Designer" on my business card. As soon as you cou...
For a very long time now I have been planning to update my old list webapp.
I made the original maybe 5 years ago, before I found Wunderlist and other list apps. The original app was a very simple php server/client, no ajax app. And even though I have tried other apps along the years, it has serve...