Written by Simone Carletti
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on Jan. 7, 2018
The Art of Invisibility (US | UK | IT) is the latest book of Kevin Mitnick, one of the world's most notorious hacker. Despite what you may think, this book is not an highly technical book. Not at all. In fact, the Art of Invisibility takes a very informative approach: it documents the thousands of…
Written by Simone Carletti
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on Dec. 26, 2016
I consider myself an active StackOverflow user, despite my activity tends to vary depending on my daily workload. I joined StackOverflow in 2009 and, at the time of writing (December 2016), I have a reputation of 124k and I'm ranked in the top 300 users. Every once in a while programmers ask me que…
Written by Simone Carletti
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on Nov. 7, 2016
A couple of days ago I was cleaning up my 1Password primary vault, and I came across some of entries dated 2008. In the software industry, 8 years it's quite a long period for a software adoption, and a question popped into my head: how long have I been using 1Password for? It turns out the answer…
Written by Simone Carletti
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on Aug. 10, 2016
The increasing adoption of HTTPS as the default connection protocol for websites has introduced a few new challenges to developers and system administrators, such as the need to consolidate a canonical domain by redirecting non-HTTP sites to HTTPS, in addition to redirecting www to non-www host nam…
Written by Simone Carletti
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on Aug. 4, 2016
This article assumes you want to redirect a www version of a domain (e.g. www.example.com) to the non-www root domain (e.g. example.com) with HTTPS, and using Amazon S3 static site redirect and CloudFront. Introduction Before we start, there are a few important notes to keep in mind: In order to re…
Written by Simone Carletti
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on Jul. 31, 2016
Table of Contents Initial considerations Configuring the Amazon S3 static site with redirect Installing the SSL certificate Configuring the Amazon CloudFront HTTPS redirect Pointing the DNS record to CloudFront endpoint Final considerations Common Errors Certificate errors Resolution errors Redirec…