Halloween 2019 had just passed when I installed uptimed to track the uptime of an OpenBSD virtual machine from OpenBSD.amsterdam that I had booked a couple of months before. According to uptimed, the latest release of the system at the time…
Have you ever wanted to run a program in some device without needing to follow a complicated, possibly slow build process? In many cases it can be simpler to use zig cc to compile a static binary and call it a day. The Zig programming langu…
Here’s a tl;dr list of bullet points: In 1995, Netscape Navigator 2.0 introduced a mechanism to extend the functionality of the web browser. That was NPAPI, short for Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface. NPAPI allowed third pa…
Now that version 2.26 of both WPE WebKit and WebKitGTK ports have been out for a few weeks it is an excellent moment to recap and take a look at what we have achieved during this development cycle. Let’s dive in! The GTK emoji picker has be…
While WPE WebKit 2.24 has now been out for a couple of months, it includes over a year of development effort since our first official release, which means there is plenty to talk about. Let’s dive in! The public API for WPE WebKit has been
The last quarter of 2018 has been a quite hectic one, and every time I had some spare time after the Web Engines Hackfest the prospective of sitting down to write some thoughts about it seemed dreadful. Christmas went by already —two full w…
Starting today, the comments section is not available any more in the articles at the perezdecastro.org website. The main reason for for taking this decision is that I have never felt particularly comfortable leaving that to a third party s…
At the beginning of October I had the wonderful chance of attending the Web Engines Hackfest in A Coruña, hosted by Igalia. This year we were over 50 participants, which was great to associate even more faces to IRC nick names, but more imp…
Wow, two posts just a few days apart from each other! Today I am writing about L7Spy, the application from the SnabbWall suite used to analyze network traffic and detect which applications they belong to. SnabbWall is being developed at Iga…
Although I have been away from Snabb-related work for a while, the fact that nDPI 1.8 was released didn’t went unnoticed. This library is an important building block for SnabbWall, the Layer-7 firewall which I am developing at Igalia with s…
Spring is here already, the snow has melted a while ago, and it looks like a good time to write a bit about network traffic flows, as promised in my previous post about ljndpi. Why so? Well, looking at network traffic and grouping it into l…
Howdy, and happy 2016! Last time we met here, I wrote about SnabbWall, a suite of Snabb Switch applications implementing the machinery needed for a Layer-7 firewall using deep packet inspection, and a firewall program itself. The work I am