Month: January 2017
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The system-ui font
Imagine: font-family: system-ui, sans-serif; Enabled by default in Chrome 56, system-ui is a special font name, that tells Chrome to use the system font (be it Cantarell in Gnome, San Francisco in macOS, etc.) But system-ui is something new, as far as I know available only in the latest versions of Blink based browsers. So…
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HTTP Strict Transport Security (hsts)
Just learned about HSTS and started using it. First let me explain HSTS with my own words. Scenario without hsts: The user types the domain name in the URL bar without the protocol, such as “example.com”, and the browser automatically adds the “http://” prefix. This first request is vulnerable to Man In The Middle (MITM)…
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Automatic LXD snapshots
Just wrote an small Python script (lxdsnap) to automatically create snapshots of every LXD container, once an hour, and remove the old ones.