Intro I recently had a need to think about API testing again. I needed to quickly come up with a small web based tester to perform the occasional get request but also a post request with data. It’s a lot simpler for me to just grab a JSON blob of data and send it to an endpoint with a click and evaluate the results. I decided to use svelte. I haven’t used svelte before but I was surprised by its simplicity and ease of use....
Intro There has been a lot of hype on socials recently about MCP or Model Context Protocol. Essentially it’s a protocol that allows LLM AI to be extended. Most of the extensions relate to providing context using your own data. This is what I am going to walk through here. I will walk through: Creating an MCP What works and what works better My discoveries so far TLDR If you just want the code - it’s here:...
Intro I’ve been doing a bit of work recently with different CI tools. One of the ones that I’ve been using is buildkite. You can find out more about buildkite buildkite.com Infrastructure In order to use buildkite, I need to stand up a buildkite agent, or a runner. In builtkite terms its called an agent. I am going to stand up all of my infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). My chosen IaC framework is pulumi....
Intro I’ve been programming in C on unix for a long time - too long in fact. I was reminded recently by someone that everything is a file in Linux / Unix. Tip I am going to use the term Linux to cover off both Unix and Linux from here on I thought that I would write about this with some code examples, and given I’m currently working for a security company, I thought it would be useful to point out how to use this functionality for evil rather than good from a security perspective....
Intro I recently had a discussion with a friend about what was better with regards to creating API’s. Design First or Code First. The approaches are radically different. We debated back and forth a bit, and I decided what better way to figure this out than to do two four hour sprints and write about the results. This post is about the first sprint that I did which was the Code First approach....
Intro I was recently challenged with the single task of being able to monitor all connectivity in and out of a process. At first thought this is actually fairly easy. “I’ll just use tcpdump” I thought to myself. That single sentence lead me down a rabbit hole of processes, namespaces and the linux kernel. I thought that I would share my experiences of how to do this. Why do this at all?...