Amir Asyraf

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On-Demand VPN on AWS EC2 with Tailscale

Provision a VPN on an EC2 instance using Terraform - Powered by Tailscale

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Favourite Poem 2 - The More Loving One

The More Loving One

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Favourite Poem 1 - Invictus

Invictus - A poem on a person's indomitability when faced with insurmountable challenges

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Terraform + AWS - The image id '[x]' does not exist

Terraform + AWS - The image id '[x]' does not exist

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Professional Development and Career

Professional Development, Career, and Upskilling

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Broken Heart

broken heart

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Vecna Clock Chime Notification Sound

Vecna chime notification sound

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MySejahtera & vaksincovid.gov.my Security Vulnerability

While registering for my COVID-19 vaccine on the official website at https://www.vaksincovid.gov.my, I found an exposed unauthenticated API endpoint. The endpoint is hosted on...

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Plaintext Shame List Malaysia - KPDNHEP

KPDNHEP, short for **Kementerian Perdagangan Dalam Negeri dan Hal Ehwal Pengguna** is a ministry responsible in promoting the development of a viable, competitive and sustainable domestic economy, specifically in the Distributive Trade Sector. KPDNHEP operates a system...

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Plaintext Shame List (Malaysia)

Password should **never** be exposed and displayed in plaintext form. However it seems a lot of organisations (especially governments!) still somehow find it normal and acceptable to send passwords to their user in plaintext...

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Turbolinks + Quicklink

Noticed how blazingly fast the navigation on the site is? Almost like an SPA isn't it?

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Fixing PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'gd.so'

Earlier*, I encountered an annoying problem with one of PHP's extension, PHP GD. No matter how many times...

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Flying to Mars with the Mars 2020 Rover

If your name is approved, it will be etched onto a microchip. The microchip is placed aboard the Mars 2020 rover...

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Hello There

Today marks the day this blog goes live. All my inner...

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