Me: Can you go to that page and see if the issue is fixed?

Colleague: if I go there it breaks things

Me: yes, it should be fixed now, can you please check it to make sure?

Colleague: but if I go there it will break things

Me: Can you just go to the page

Colleague: it broke something

Me: what did it break?

Colleague: I don't know

Me: ...then how do you know it's broken

Colleague: because the gallery doesn't work

Me: WELL THEN THATS WHAT'S FUCKING BROKEN THEN ISN'T IT

That, my friends, is a Dell Poweredge r610, with 2x e5670 and 48GB of registered ECC memory, mounted underneath my desk at work, using mounts I 3D printed at home.

Roughly £140 all in, and I now have a nice little development server, AND leg heater!

The feeling of evil satisfaction when your boss asks you to build a killswitch into a client's project.

Just call me Zero Cool.

- build custom overclocked pc
- hackintosh
- ????
- profit

That's basically been my night. Without the profit. And more beer.

So today I found a way to break into any Apple Mac (provided the exploit hasn't been fixed by the owner) and access all private files, as long as I have physical access to it, in less than 5 minutes.

After finding this, a quick Google on the method reveals this has been a workaround for years.

And to think I once praised Apple for their security standards.

Edit: this was done to an in-house Mac that my company own, and had been password locked by a member of staff who had been fired, but held important company documents on the computer. It was in no way a breach of privacy.

Just got tasked with working on a Wordpress theme built in Lattescript.

Why. Seriously.

Git object is corrupt

Use windows for today

Just upgraded my company's ecommerce site to the latest versions of everything and nothing broke.

I don't trust it.

Ever find when you're working on a personal project that you spend more time trying to think of good names for classes than actually writing code?

Black coffee, Nintendocore, and a task that's gonna take longer than the deadline I have.

I didn't choose the debug life, the debug life chose me.

I may not have a duck, but I do have this little guy that my fiancée made for me :)

One of the best things about having a basic knowledge of mechanical engineering, and access to shop floor tools.

I don't have to pay for stuff like docking stations 👌

Just looked at my emails for the first time since 23rd (self imposed blackout to get some rest) and found an email chain from a co-worker and a client.

At 5.30pm on Fri 23rd (half an hour after our usual quitting time) we got an email from a client who has taken 2 years to write content for their 10-page website, asking us if we could push the website live.

My colleague succinctly replied with "No. Best Regards, [name]" and then replied to just the company with a photo of him grinning and holding a beer.

Merry Christmas!

It's PHP...

I always knew Linux was my friend...

Just 20 more to go...

Bruteforce IRL

So I recently bought my first house (yay!).

Whilst doing the initial viewings I saw the below on the backyard and thought "hey that's neat, I can leave a key in there for when I come in late and my fiancée is asleep.

Fast forward to moving in day and the previous owners hand me the keys so I ask "oh yeah, what's the code for the keysafe" and he just looks at me completely blank, so I'm just like "the box on the wall out back" and he's just like "oh! So that's what that is. No we've never had the code for that, bye."

Being a pen tester I'm just stood there dumbfounded thinking "How the hell can you have a locked box attached to your house and not want to know what is inside!"

Anyway, that brings us to now where I'm stood outside in December on a Sunday morning brute forcing my way into my own keysafe.

I wish this didn't run so many parallels with my work life 😂

Needed some cash, someone asked if I knew anyone who made websites. Took the job and I haven't looked back since.

!rant
If you drive, what do you drive?
Just interested to see what kinds of cars we favour.

I currently have a beat up Audi A3.

Calling a client's hosting provider to switch on a feature because shell is jailed.

Company is hiring a new PM (the first one, to allow me, the only dev, to concentrate on developing and not dealing with client crap) and I'm being allowed in on the vetting process.

Background: we maintain quite a few WordPress ecommerce sites, so part of the job spec was to be familiar with WordPress environments and the codebase, and that they have a least 3 years of PM experience.

1st phone interview: I'm an experienced WordPress developer, been doing it for 5 years.

Me: oh cool, can you show us examples of themes, plugins, and extensions you've created?

Guy: oh, no, I just install pre-made stuff.

Me: ...

*click*

Anyone else here running ElementalOS? Found it runs fantastically on my 2013 xps13.

Cheating and using Arch-anywhere for my first foray into Arch after 3 hours of manual confit and computer failing over.

Mainly for freelancers: Don't be afraid to take on projects you know nothing about. You can learn whilst doing the job, plus you're getting paid for it.

!rant
Cheap laptops for running Kali/Arch? Will be used for learning penetration testing.

Was thinking an older Lenovo Thinkpad or something like that?

Having to sit and explain the difference between json and jsonp to a graphic designer and and SEO manager

Queue all of the "lol apple is dum" comments

Best part: Learning. Always Learning.