Recently I saw some interesting traffic in some of my engineering posts. Since I’m not using any analytics, besides my Nginx-Based Web Analytics script, I was wondering if the traffic reading was a...

In my Security by Design post, I listed Minimize Attack Surface as one of the core principles. Minimizing the attack surface is more than just closing open ports. While closing unnecessary ports, a...

Recently, there has been growing political debate around restricting social media access for teens under 13 or 16. Australia has already implemented a nationwide ban for those under 16. Several Eur...

I’ve always enjoyed the Predator movies, even if it isn’t exactly my favorite sci-fi franchise. Like Alien, the series has had its ups and downs, with the classics still standing as the strongest e...

Building secure software depends on a range of elements. Infrastructure matters, but a large part of a system’s actual risk profile is determined much earlier: in the way it is designed. Even a wel...

Less than 24 hours ago, my life permanently shifted. As I look down at this little creature sleeping softly in my arms, a myriad of emotions and thoughts run through me, including the occasional sm...

Moving from Asia but staying on the topic of Portugal and the Age of Exploration, this feels like the right moment to visit another of my favorite battles and arguably one of the most important nav...

Having just written my review of the Shōgun TV series, I couldn’t avoid going one layer deeper. Fiction tends to compress events into personalities and drama, but the real story of how Portugal and...

After watching Alien Earth, I decided to give Shōgun a chance. And I do mean give it a chance. I had seen the trailers, and although it is an historical drama and thus not necessarily historically ...

The year isn’t even finished with its first month and it has already produced a few international episodes that are hard to read through anything other than the logic of power. A U.S. military oper...