What to Expect When Expecting Content Security Policy Reports
Zach Tollman goes deep on Content Security Policy reporting in browsers.
Category: Geekery
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Shortcake Bakery
GitHub – wp-shortcake/shortcake-bakery: A fine selection of shortcodes for WordPressA fine selection of shortcodes for WordPress. Contribute to wp-shortcake/shortcake-bakery development by creating an account on GitHub.
Shortcake + Shortcake Bakery = Easy PDF, JavaScript, iFrame, Facebook post, Scribd & Genius embeds from the team at Fusion.
There’s also a really nice image comparison tool. If you’re into that sort of thing. Which I am.
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Scaling WordPress queries with Elasticsearch
Scaling WP Queries with Elasticsearch – The Agile Content Platform | WordPress VIPTo try and surface better content to users, there are taxonomies and meta queries that normally don’t get used anywhere else.
File under: Cool shit you can do with Elasticsearch.
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Implementing Public Key Pinning
Implementing Public Key PinningWhile HPKP — which helps reduce the attack surface for man-in-the-middle attacks against HTTPS traffic — is only supported in a very small handful of recent Chrome and Firefox builds, it never hurts to get ahead of the curve. Especially when it comes to your site’s security.
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WPScan Licensing
WPScan LicensingWhen you first release software online you don’t put too much thought into the software license (I didn’t at least). You have no idea if the project will tak…
It looks like the WordPress security tool WPScan is looking to move away from the GNU GPL license for their software. That’s rather unfortunate, but after reading about companies trying to repackage and sell WPScan as their own work, I totally get where they’re coming from.
Chasing these companies takes time, sometimes a whole day of emails back and forth arguing the intricacies of the GNU GPL while they try and weasel their way out of complying to our license. This takes a lot of my time away from the important stuff, working on WPScan and the WPScan Vulnerability Database. Because of this I decided to add a clause to the license. If you want to sell WPScan you can pay for a commercial license, otherwise you can use it under the GNU GPL.
After a few months with this license it was pointed out to me that the GNU GPL does not allow these kind of clauses. What some individuals and companies decided was a ‘loophole’.
Their new (proposed) license has been posted as a Gist — which I’ve embedded below — and the developers are welcoming feedback.
If you’re schooled in Public/Open Source software licenses and are interested in the future of WordPress security tools, go leave a comment!
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I’m in Love With the PAKO
While I never bought into the Flappy Bird hype, I totally get the appeal of infuriatingly brief casual games. So I decided to try out PAKO after finding it over the weekend.
The TL;DW (too long; didn’t watch) of the video above is this:
- Pick a closed, arena-style level.
- Don’t crash.
- Avoid cops.
Even though I haven’t had a single round that’s lasted longer than 35 seconds, it manages to be loads of fun without being throw-your-phone frustrating. If you’ve got a couple bucks burning a hole in your pocket — it’s only $0.99 on iOS, but slightly more expensive on other platforms — it’s definitely worth it.
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Making Your Own High Performance WordPress Server
Making your own High Performance WordPress Server | Zach Adams | Boise Web Design and Development – Making your own WPEngine-Like High Performance WordPress ServerWeb Developer and Programmer
Clever forks of WP Engine’s Mercury Vagrant for the “roll your own server” types courtesy of Zach Adams.
I say “forks” because he’s actually crafted two different Ansible playbooks. One deploys WordPress, HHVM, Percona, PHP-FPM & nginx to a server of your choosing while the other adds Varnish, Memcached & APC to the mix.
I have a vested interest in folks signing up for service at WP Engine — seeing as how I work there and all that — but this is still pretty fantastic.
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MyFitnessPal doesn’t use HTTPS
HTTP Shaming — MyFitnessPal does not protect your health…MyFitnessPal does not protect your health information with HTTPS MyFitnessPal is a service that tracks your food intake, daily activity and exercise, and body measurements such as weight. Of course,…
When logged into MyFitnessPal, all of the pages transmit over insecure HTTP. Everything you eat, your body measurements, your daily activity, and any activity imported from third party services are all transmitted insecurely over HTTP. If you’re on a public wi-fi network, anyone can easily intercept this private health information.
Even worse, if you manually change the logged-in URL from insecure HTTP to secure HTTPS, MyFitnessPal forces you back onto insecure HTTP.
Ew. Guess it’s time to switch to Lose It! then…
P.S. HTTP Shaming is full of some pretty surprising — and utterly heinous — behavior from companies & organizations that should know better. ᔥ
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WordPress SEO Tamer
GitHub – hlashbrooke/WordPress-SEO-Tamer: Love WordPress SEO by Yoast, but hate its dashboard clutter? Well, look no further!Love WordPress SEO by Yoast, but hate its dashboard clutter? Well, look no further! – GitHub – hlashbrooke/WordPress-SEO-Tamer: Love WordPress SEO by Yoast, but hate its dashboard clutter? Well, look no further!Love Yoast’s WordPress SEO but hate some of the clutter that it brings to your dashboard? There’s a plugin for that.
This plugin also — as Joost points out — breaks the business model that supports WordPress SEO’s development by blocking the ads for Yoast’s other plugins & services. You can turn the ads back on in Tamer’s options, but that’s still a pretty shitty thing to do. ᔥ
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Deploy Elasticsearch on Google Compute Engine
Google Cloud Platform Blog: Deploy Elasticsearch on Google Compute EngineThanks to Google, you can now quickly spin up an Elasticsearch instance for a few dollars a month. Couple that with WordPress plugins like ElasticPress & ES_WP_Query and you can get some pretty nice performance boosts in places where folks don’t normally bother to optimize.