I use nginx to redirect requests from my domain to a service that I self host. It works perfectly however I wanted a mechanism to keep bad actors away from my server and keep my security posture in tip top condition. fail2ban is a service that will ban IP addresses

Unit tests are an extremely important part of software development. It ensures a reliable and robust engineering environment where quality is paramount. In my opinion the biggest advantage is that we dramatically reduce bugs in production. This is because if we make changes in one section of the codebase, this

I have had an Office 365 account for a while that had services like Microsoft Teams and Azure however I no longer needed this. To delete the account you have to follow multiple steps. Use this link https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/commerce/close-your-account?view=

Whilst browsing through GitHub repositories, I noticed that some people had a fancy profile and I was really curious to how they got that to work. This post goes through how you can make your GitHub profile look that bit better and to top it off, it surprisingly easy. Firstly,

A few months ago, I deployed my blog using Ghost however I came upon many issues when trying to host it on Azure by following other tutorials available on the web. Just to get up and running, I used the Ghost docker image and then just wired up my configuration

I have been working on a project and wanted to document our APIs to make it easy to see what endpoints we have. Luckily there is a tool called Swagger/OpenAPI and this is a language-agnostic specification for describing REST APIs. It generates a JSON file which is then

This blog post goes over a clean way to access your configuration variables in your .NET project instead of passing IConfiguration directly into services. The thing I don't like about passing IConfiguration directly into services is that all the app settings were available to the service even if

I have recently come across an issue where I wanted to return status codes by throwing an exception. So for example, if I throw a NotFoundException (this would be a custom exception) then I would want that to return a 404 error. As a result, I wanted to better handle