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This is very cool. The guys at Defcon sure knows how to geek out and create a challenge. Here’s the Badge Challenge Walkthrough.

TripIt insecurely broadcasts sensitive travel details in calendar feeds; could destroy your vacation httpshaming: Although I love using TripIt to organize my travel, if you subscribe to a TripIt calendar feed using an application like OS X or iOS Calendar, details about your past and upcoming travel is sent plaintext, unencrypted out over the net: Your name …

A while back, I stumbled across NomadList. It’s basically a crowd sourced list of cities around the world ranked by how good they are for remote working. That got me thinking. One of the pain points I’ve had over the years when traveling is finding the best local mobile carrier for pre-paid cards. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a crowd sourced database …

What’s in your bag, Viktor? leannomads: One of the most important possessions as a digital nomad is your laptop bag and its contents. Think of it as your office. Since you will be carrying this bag with you almost everywhere you go, you really want to make sure that it is robust, and yet light (when filled). After years of testing out…

How funny. I got a CloudFlare timeout…on www.cloudflare.com

Yesterday, I had to rescue a broken Ubuntu 14.04 installation by booting from USB. Unfortunately, I was unable to get into the BIOS to change the boot order (because of a BIOS password and a bad memory). Fortunately, since I was able to get to Grub, it was still possible. Here’s how I did it: Create a bootable USB drive (using something like Startup Disk …

Hold on, let me just upgrade and reboot my light bulbs…

Docker and Docker Hub - It’s awesome and it removes a lot of the complexity from traditional DevOps work. What’s funny is that while doing my migration to Tumblr, I found this three year blog post that pretty much describes Docker. Yes, it’s not too far from FreeBSD’s Jails, but it never had this momentum nor the toolset (which of course is a result of the …

Today, I’ve spent a large chunk of my day migrating my blog from WordPress to Tumblr and About.me. Before you ask why on earth I’d do this, let me just sum it up in a few bullet points: I hate PHP and managing WordPress sites. Yes, it has gotten a lot better lately, but it’s still a big pain in the ass. Most of the content I generate is either on other …

Last month I spoke at Zadara Summit. I did however, I did forget to post the speaker deck here, so here we go. My presentation deck is available here.