Seven years after the first release and four years after disappearing from the
Playstore, the nameless samurai returns with new adventures. Yes, you heard it
right. After a year of work, Samurai Standoff is
back in the Google Playstore and Apple App Store. And it's bigger and better
than ever before.
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How to Stop Malicious Vulnerability Scanners in Laravel with Fail2ban
Every website is bombarded with dozens of unwanted requests every day. The talk
here is of so-called vulnerability scanners.
In this article you will learn what they are all about and how you can fight
the uninvited guests.
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How to Install DDEV on an Apple M1 Mac
It doesn't often happen that I'm one of the early adopters. However, after the
announcement of Apple's new silicon processor, I wanted to be ahead of the game
this time. Needless to say, there was hardly any compatible software at the
beginning. That's why I had to work with MAMP and a local PHP installation -
terribly inflexible. But now I finally managed to get Docker and DDEV up and
running.
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Optimizing Aureola (4/5): Preloading, Caching and Micro Optimization
The big construction sites are done. But there are still a few things we can do. Much of it certainly falls under the
category of micro-optimization, but in total we still gain a few more kilobytes and milliseconds.
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Optimizing Aureola (3/5): Optimized Icon-Font with Icomoon
The optimization continues. Today I'm devoting myself to a topic that often seems to receive little attention. The size
of external libraries. Now I don't really use any frameworks on my site. However, there is one candidate that you
should take a closer look at: Font Awesome.
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