Less Google

Everyone knows and uses one of Google’s many services. At the end of 2015, these services were brought together under the lesser-known name Alphabet. The image below gives you a good overview of services that all fall under the Alphabet name. I’m sure you will recognise and use many of them. All of these services […]

DuckDuckGo as default search engine

Anyone trying to get away from Google, can start easily by using DuckDuckGo as his default search engine. Why another search engine? That’s pretty simple: No company needs to keep track of your details to find out more about you. DuckDuckGo is a good example of a profitable company that also advertises without wanting to […]

DuckDuckGo as default search engine

Anyone trying to get away from Google, can start easily by using DuckDuckGo as his default search engine. Why another search engine? That’s pretty simple: No company needs to keep track of your details to find out more about you. DuckDuckGo is a good example of a profitable company that also advertises without wanting to […]

Vingerafdruk op de eID, een technische analyse

Laatste kwam deze tweet voorbij over de vingeradruk op de eID. Het was al even stil geweest over deze wet, die april van dit jaar in voege zal/zou treden. Het heeft even geduurd, maar eindelijk heb ik het rapport kunnen lezen. Dit is een eerste keer dat het toevoegen op de Belgische eID van een […]

WP Meetup Hasselt – Beveiliging

De eerste samenkomst van 2019 met de WordPress Meetup Hasselt ging over beveiliging. Met een kleine 20 deelnemers, was er heel wat ervaring met WordPress aanwezig. Daarnaast legt iedereen zijn eigen accenten bij het beveiligen want WordPress websites en niemand heeft de waarheid in pacht. We kozen daarom om een rondetafel methode te gebruiken. Zo […]

Facebook gave away your personal data

In the period from 2010 until 2017, Facebook had agreements with large (Tech) companies to share all users data. This gave them the ability to harvest personal data, without your consent. Facebook began partnerships for its own benefit. They did not sell data, but gave other companies access to user data. In return, the partner […]

WordPress 5.0 released

It took more than a year of development by the community to get to the WordPress 5.0 release. I think it’s a job well done. There are a lot of improvements that can be done, but upgrading from WordPress 4.9.8 to 5.0 goes without any problem. I experimented some more with the new release and […]

WP Meetup Hasselt – Performance

Every 2 months, there is a WordPress Meetup Hasselt. This time we did a little experiment: We combined a talk about Website Performance with a hands-on session. This gave us an opportunity to put the new knowledge into practice. On beforehand we asked all participants to bring their laptops so they could work on any […]

RipsTech PHP Security Advent Calendar

The advent is the period of roughly 24 days before Christmas and is typically a period of looking forward to A well-known tool to help you remind the progress is an Advent Calendar. RipsTech released an Advents Calendar the past 2 years about general PHP vulnerabilities and they gave the idea a new spin. This […]