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January 06, 2021 7 mins read
Engineering

Integrate Klaro Consent Management

Klaro is an open-source and simple consent management platform to make a website GDPR compliant. If you happen to serve traffic to European users then you should definitely check whether your website needs to be GDPR compliant as well. While this is not going to be a legal blog post we will see how we can use Klaro to enforce a high level of user privacy on a website.

Disclaimer: This blog post does not contain any legal advice. Please do consider a lawyer with experience in privacy to see if your website needs to be and is GDPR compliant once you implemented it.

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June 16, 2020 2 mins read

A Deep Dive into DevSecOps: My Conversation on the Security-Insider Podcast

In a recent episode of the Security-Insider Podcast, I, Fabian Keller, delve into the transformative impact of DevSecOps on IT system security and discuss the balance between safety and security. Listen to the full episode for insights on the benefits of rapid iteration cycles, the importance of a security-oriented mindset, and the role of threat modeling in proactive security planning.

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May 31, 2020 9 mins read
Engineering

5 Useful jq Commands to Parse JSON on the CLI

JSON has become the de facto standard data representation for the web. It’s lightweight, human-readable (in theory) and supported by all major languages and platforms. However, working on the CLI with JSON is still hard using traditional CLI tooling.

Lucky, there is jq, a command-line JSON processor. jq offers a broad range of operations to transform and manipulate JSON based data structures from the command line. Looking at the documentation however reveals an overwhelmingly huge number of options, functions and things you can do with jq. This blog post shows 5 useful jq commands that you really need to know.

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February 25, 2020 3 mins read
General

Hello Photography

Mid 2019 I have started contributing photos that I took to Unsplash. Unsplash is my main goto resource to spice up presentations, documents and talks. I even use it as a resource to put sample photos into the applications I build (when not using picsum.photos or placekittens.com). Over the years, I have used hundreds of photos that individual photographers all over the world have made, edited and contributed to the ever-growing Unsplash library. It was about time to give back some of the photos that I took over the years. The photos are not only on Unsplash, but also available on my website in the photography section.

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