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hcaz

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Senior PHP developer based in Kingston Upon Hull UK! Over 10 years experience creating bespoke software solutions.

Founded enhost.uk Blogs: @hcaz@prra.xyz - @zach@prra.xyz

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hcaz··on Mob – A personal CRM as an MCP server
Monica is open source and has a good API. Why would you not hook into that instead of building yet another tool?

You don't mention it, but was AI used to write this? And if so how does its security compare to Monica which is fairly well battle testes at this stage and somewhat reasonable to be putting other peoples personal information into.

hcaz··on What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
I always refer to https://namingschemes.com/Main_Page
hcaz··on What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
As always https://xkcd.com/910/
hcaz··on CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers
I love Centminmod but some of our clients need a UI so we settled on a mix of https://hestiacp.com/ and https://www.cloudpanel.io/
hcaz··on Face as a QR Code
Yes: https://www.reddit.com/r/touhou/comments/ueo304/i_played_bad...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40377122

hcaz··on A super fast website using Cloudflare workers
Another super super fast website is https://www.mcmaster.com/
hcaz··on Show HN: OctoDNS, Tools for managing DNS across multiple providers
I compared OctoDNS with DNSControl (https://github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol) a few years ago and settled with DNSControl because it had more providers out of the box.

But using either of these tools to have your DNS redeploy-able to a new provider is a great idea for resiliency.

hcaz··on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
https://cachethq.io/ is great for this
hcaz··on Show HN: Keepr – A Secure and Offline Open Source CLI Password Manager
Looks cool, but I think the name is very similar to Keeper (https://www.keepersecurity.com/en_GB/enterprise.html)
hcaz··on How I block all 26M of your curl requests
It exposed their committer email (I know its already public on the site, but still)

You can wget the whole .git folder and look through the commit history, so if at any point something had been pushed which should not have been its available

hcaz··on Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP
Protonmail is a good alternative if its imap restrictions are not a problem for you
hcaz··on Show HN: Checking Pope's election results with smoke test script for chimney
What was your motivation to use AI for this instead of simple image analysis?
hcaz··on Pope Francis has died
> Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta.

> Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, the Vatican has announced. - Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected to lead the Catholic Church in March 2013 after Pope Benedict XVI stood down.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/crknlnzlrzdt

hcaz··on New in Gmail: Making E2E encrypted emails easy to use for all organizations
Google have a history of releasing products on april 1st, gmail itself was right?
hcaz··on Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
My work blocks any domains registered in the last 90 days which is a big pain in the ass
hcaz··on A vending machine, on the internet
When stripe charged you $10 for a chargeback on those transactions, unless stripe has changed its policy recently
hcaz··on Please help me find better blogs to read
https://brr.fyi/ is a really good read about a dude who worked at the south pole for a while
hcaz··on Show HN: Mashups – Resurrecting Yahoo Pipes, my side project
Something like https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?
hcaz··on How much do I need to change my face to avoid facial recognition?
Added to my read-list
hcaz··on Microsoft Outlook, Exchange and Teams calendar are down worldwide
More respectable source - https://x.com/MSFT365Status
hcaz··on Show HN: I built a error logging system that notifies you when things break
How does this compare with Sentry, Bugsnag, rollbar etc?
hcaz··on Facebook.com SSL cert expires in a few days
Infact it was only issues in August, so this is probably fairly regularly rotates
hcaz··on Facebook.com SSL cert expires in a few days
It expires in a full 7 days, this is not news. I am sure they will renew it before it expires.
hcaz··on Show HN: I built Bazaari.io to make launching online stores simple and fast
Yes, they could (And it seems likely) discontinue the .io domain, first stopping new registrations then giving everyone a timeline to move off it (Hopefully 3-5 years). But if they want to pull the plug they have the authority to do so
hcaz··on macOS Sequoia is available today
Been using it in the UK for a while on the beta, works fine
hcaz··on Gallery of Graffti Removals
Always a classic this, first thing I thought of too
hcaz··on ReMarkable Paper Pro
Seems like you can, but not clear how easy it is - https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
hcaz··on An open source blogging platform with activity pub support
I came across this blogging tool which also exposes all posts via activity hub which can be followed on Mastodon. Seems like a very nice light weight way to post things into the fediverse
hcaz··on 'Lost' ball located 91 years on (2005)
There are newer articals on this which have pictures from the past year - https://talker.news/2024/07/02/tennis-ball-stuck-in-cathedra...
hcaz··on How Video Works
This is a great site, I always point people to howdns.works too
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