Waybackmachine on NalleRooth.com

Content From Way Back (Machine)

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 22:55:24 +0200

I recently spent some time in a room on TryHackMe, where the Wayback Machine was mentioned as a possible source of sensitive information (maybe someone deployed a /config folder or a test file of some sort, giving away information about how the system works).

This site is built using static HTML. Despite that, there were some interesting finds along the way. Like a /.well-known/... path. Probably used by Let’s Encrypt for automated certificate renewal or something similar. When I tried to find it again a while later, I couldn’t.

Online Headhunters - the most optimistic optimists out there

Thu, 18 Sep 2014 08:37:16 +0100

Every now and then I get an email from some random headhunter at Linkedin, claiming to have the perfect job opening for someone with my skills.

Very often the job being offered requires re-locating to Amsterdam, Barcelona, Sydney, or someplace in the general area of [very far from Sweden]. I’m sure all of those cities are great, but I’m not too fond of the idea of shipping everything I own to some far off city, just because someone have sent me an email containing 2 rows of obvious copy->paste text.

Some experience, decisions and a rant

Fri, 12 Sep 2014 00:03:08 +0100

A while ago, I said that I’d rewrite this site in .Net. But that didn’t really happen. Here’s why.

.Net forces you into Windows territory, which is very different from what I’m used to. I paid for Windows 8.1 Professional in order to use the Windows Phone emulator - only to find out that enabling Hyper-V disables support for other virtualization software like VMware, Virtualbox and the Android emulator. Hyper-V can be turned off, but that requires a reboot to take effect, and then another reboot in order to enable it again. Very annoying.
While Visual Studio is a really good IDE, the .Net MVC 5 platform fails to get me excited.
Even when hosted on an Intel i7 with 16Gb of ram, the site I built felt kind of slow. This might be because I missed some “required” tweaks somewhere, but at the same time - the Laravel version of the site (this version) felt snappy on the same hardware. Without tweaks.
PHP is getting faster and better with each release - and it runs pretty much anywhere. Of course C# is superior to PHP language-wise, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t work around some of PHP’s problems and get stuff done.

Of course, there are good reasons for using .Net too.

The past and the future

Tue, 20 May 2014 11:13:46 +0200

I published my first, personal website somewhere in 1996 - 1997. It was written in quite broken HTML (consisting of ~90% font tags, since things like CSS didn’t really exist) and it looked horrible. After a while, I started adding stuff like Javascript and some very basic PHP, which probably just made things worse than they already were (the site only worked in Netscape Navigator, IIRC).

Years passed and I started working as a web developer (2003 - 2004), did some other odd jobs, went to college, and returned to the Internet as a systems developer in 2012.

Hello World 2.0

Tue, 01 Apr 2014 23:41:06 +0100

Ok, so the Wordpress site I had published here just had to die. While I love the idea of Wordpress, as well as its functionality when it comes to pushing content towards the readers - I just couldn’t live with all the hacks (read: plugins) necessary to force it to be somewhat speedy. Having an average load time of 1.5 seconds on a bare install, containing only the default “Hello World” post is not ok.