MikeBerggren.com Musings from a cybersecurity geek, engineering nerd, productivity enthusiast, devops wannabe, and sci-fi addict. https://mikeberggren.com/feed Content Management/Blog en-us Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:38:47 -0700 mike.berggren@outlook.com (MikeBerggren.com) http://mikeberggren.com/introducing-getstat-dev#61184 Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:38:47 -0700 http://mikeberggren.com/introducing-getstat-dev Introducing getstat.dev They say necessity is the mother of invention, right? :-)

About a week ago, I published a simple little page called https://getstat.dev. It's live now.

It's nothing fancy; just an easy client-centric way to verify connectivity to the public internet without the excessive bloat of visiting an actual web site. I published it because I couldn't really find anything else like it. Testing baseline layer-7 connectivity usually required living in the world of HTTP return codes or visiting a random bloated site. Sometimes when debugging/troubleshooting you just need a simple target site to run a straight-forward check.

This page has a few things going for it:

  • It's small (less than 100 bytes of page data going to the requesting client).
  • It's fast (static content with transmission times averaging under 250 milliseconds).
  • The output is script-friendly (assuming the respective monitoring tools can parse text).

Frankly though, the best part is what's NOT there: No scripts, no dynamic content, no cookies, no popups, no input forms, no images, no css, no APIs, no third-party scripts, and no AI assistants offering to chat.

It's literally just a status string and a frequently updated timestamp. Don't believe me? Check out the complete page source (attached :-))

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Anyway, I know it's a bit silly but I thought I'd mention it in case it's useful to someone else too. Have a great weekend, y'all!

]]> http://mikeberggren.com/flow-tunes#60977 Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:03:00 -0700 http://mikeberggren.com/flow-tunes Music for focus - Flow Tunes I just want to boost the volume (pun intended) on this awesome site/service: Flowtunes. It's a great service for having flow-state music playing in the background. Perfect for tackling a stack of emails or coding. Check it out!

]]> http://mikeberggren.com/introducing-hack-faqs#59888 Sun, 24 Nov 2024 15:41:06 -0800 http://mikeberggren.com/introducing-hack-faqs Introducing Hack FAQs After some initial delay, I've (finally?) launched a technical journal site/newsletter: Hack FAQs. It's a consolidation of a few interests and hobbies I've had over the years and my hope is that it'll be in a form that's easy to author/maintain.

What is it, exactly? Think of it like a collection of brief technical notes, procedures; basically personal KB articles. My hope is that the information will be of benefit to others and foster an open knowledge platform for cybersecurity and devops.

...and so, what does this mean for mikeberggren.com? Not much difference, really. This site will continue to be personal journaling platform but I'll keep the topics here to be more focused on other areas/interests (e.g. art, music, personal productivity, etc). If I do ramble about technology here, it'll likely be more opinion based. Meanwhile, Hack FAQs will be more tech focused and factual.

Fun stuff! Thanks for reading my musings :-).

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