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Every so often I find myself needing to run up an HTTPS server locally for development. Here are the steps for doing on OS X, assuming you’ve already installed Homebrew: [Read More]

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It’s been a while since I’ve added any articles to this blog. This has been due to working flat out on MultiBit HD - a Bitcoin startup project. [Read More]

The other day I needed to verify that my machine had built a JAR file correctly by comparing it to another build on a different machine. I noted the SHA1 hash of the original, built it again and the two were different. The source code was identical since the git commit fingerprint was the same. [Read More]

As regular readers will be aware, I do a lot of work within the Bitcoin community contributing code wherever I can. Recently an interesting problem came up with the Bitcoinj library which has highlighted a particular weakness within Maven that I feel more developers should be aware of: the dependency-chain attack. [Read More]