Recent content by herps

Google has been a serious pain in the ass for one of the sites I maintain. The site has about 5000 pages, but Google is trying to locate like 40k links because a plugin went haywire sometime ago. Now Google is trying to find those pages and has been doing so for over 6mo now. It's fucked our...

Great idea. Thank you! My accounts all use a password manager. I wouldn't put it past the other admins to use something short and plaintext.

I'm not asking about opsec. That's not even my department. Yes, the client failed in that area. I've been picking up the pieces there. I believe the biggest problem is that they're using a host from 1995 and it's not even GoDaddy. My guess is they used something really stupid like a directory...

This is SO weird. I don't even know where to post this so hopefully lounge is cool? Someone stole my client's website and made an exact copy. It's a small website. The design is OK, but nothing worth stealing. Same graphics, same theme, same plugins installed, etc. Even their theme has the same...

Is there a way to buy an ioncube decoder? I have 4 pretty small scripts that need to be decoded.

Did you write this ioncube decoder? I've been always curious about how ioncube works and finally encountered 5 php scripts that are encoded today.

If you want to freelance... You could start picking up basic work on Upwork with javascript rather quickly. There aren't nearly as many C#/.net gigs available though

HTML page content would be ideal, but just every URL would also be a good start.

What is the best way to scrape for plain old HTML? I'm not looking for a headless browser to scrape pages. I'm looking for a really simple HTTPS crawler to efficiently scrape every single page on this website with about 250k pages and download them to a drive. I'd imagine whatever CDN they're...

You don't need a job in this economy. If you're a programmer, then go to a freelancer website and start picking up side gigs while you're at your 9-5. With some good reviews you can raise your rates. English speaking coders that can complete gigs can easily make $50hr side hustle money (I charge...

Weird question: Has anyone tried to do this with AWS Lambda? Seems like the kind of service that would be perfect for a single page website for basically free

You must be scraping a CloudFlare site that's on the Enterprise tier. Their Enterprise team is dedicated to stopping bot traffic using heuristics and machine learning. They almost exclusively specialize in discerning bot traffic in a sea of millions of hits per month regardless of IP or headers...

Installing a SSL certificate is something you do with the hosting company. You can't do that in Wordpress alone. An alternative solution is you could use CloudFlare. However, you'll need access to their domain name. And if their domain name is with the host then you're SOL. Often times clients...

This isn't my field of expertise, but you might want to look into Python. There is a lot of machine learning stuff done in python. https://realpython.com/face-recognition-with-python/

Same! I was a game developer in a past life and optimizing triangles for framerate is a lot like optimizing divs/css for core web vitals. In this case, I was brought onto this project after several jr level devs built it before me. I agree with these statements 100%. However, for some reason...