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freistilbox customers know our slogan: “Work efficiently. Sleep peacefully.” Today, we’re happy to tell you that we’ve made your resting time even more relaxed. Your websites are now protected by the new freistilbox Web Application Firewall.
geewiz
16 May 2018
In my post “Working out loud doesn’t mean being noisy”, I’ve laid out how we at freistil IT make sure everyone on our distributed team is on the same page with regard to both the progress of our work and the state of the people who are doing it. This way of intentional communication is sometimes called “Narrating your work” or simply “Working out loud”. A few weeks ago, I’ve started an experiment of significantly extending the audience with which I share my progress. In fact, I broadcast my software engineering work live on the streaming platform Twitch.
geewiz
16 Apr 2018
I recently found the article “The Benefits of an Office Library” and was surprised to read that company libraries were far from standard in other fields than law practices. That just doesn’t make any sense to me.
geewiz
22 Jan 2018
“Working out loud” is a funny way to describe how people in distributed teams communicate their work, share where they make progress, where they’re stuck, what they experience. That we’re remote from each other doesn’t mean we’re a bunch of hermits. Working out loud is an important practice to make sure we collaborate effectively.
geewiz
23 Dec 2017
In October 2017, our managed hosting platform freistilbox had its fifth birthday. But if we’re honest, we’ve not come as far as we should have in this time. The reason is not that in a small, bootstrapped company like ours, capacity is tight. We just didn’t use the capacity we had effectively.
geewiz
12 Dec 2017
The SSL protocol and early versions of its successor TLS have many known vulnerabilities. In recent years, exploits like POODLE, BEAST or Logjam got wide public attention, and on our edge routers, we’ve disabled many a cipher and hash algorithm that turned out to be too weak for proper web security.
geewiz
01 Dec 2017
Our business is managed web hosting, so keeping our web operations work in flow is essential. In this article series, I’m sharing what we’ve learned in that regard.
geewiz
28 Nov 2017
Our business is managed hosting, so keeping our web operations work in flow is essential. In this article series, I’m sharing what we’ve learned in that regard.
geewiz
16 Nov 2017