Passing Curiosity

Welcome to Passing Curiosity!

Welcome to my rather disorganised blog. Most of what you’ll find here are notes about books and articles I’ve read, problems I’ve solved, and events I’ve attended. Prominent topics include books, events, Haskell, Drupal, and howto articles.

Recent Posts

Reducing TLS client security requirements on OpenSSL and GnuTLS

This is how to configure common GnuTLS and OpenSSL clients to allow connections with servers using TLS keys and parameters now considered insecure.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on March 30, 2021. Tagged with: howto, openssl, gnutls, diffie-hellman, configuration, security.

Using jgit in-memory with local file system repositories

The slight tweak you need to avoid NullPointerException when using jgit InMemoryRepository to fetch from remotes on the local file system.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on April 1, 2020. Tagged with: howto, java, git, jgit.

iiNet NBN VDSL2 with Proscend VSDL2 SFP module

Connecting my home network to a new iiNet NBN services with a Proscend T-180 VSDL2 SFP module.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on February 18, 2020. Tagged with: howto, vdsl, nbn, iinet, edgerouter, proscend, spf.