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Paul Clegg

Edinburgh
As seen in: MDPI, Royal Society of Chemistry, The Sacramento Bee, DEV Community, Vigour Times, Elite Franchise
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Enterprise Architecture for a blog nobody reads

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By Paul Clegg
| DEV Community
The previous incarnation of this site lived happily on a Digital Ocean droplet - until react2shell came along. I put the whole thing together rather haphazardly and left my Umami login page open to the public. My droplet was compromised and became part of a botnet only a few days after CVE-2025-55182 was announced. React2Shell is a critical (CVSS 10.0) unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in React Server Components.
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I traced a CPU spike to a massive botnet dashboard

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By Paul Clegg
| DEV Community
I was lazy when I set up my personal blog. It was running on Digital Ocean - via one of their pre-configured application containers. I was running Ghost - a popular blogging platform. I manually added Varnish for full page caching and installed Umami. I wanted some analytics just to have an idea of how many people were reading and engaging with my content. I despise all the tracking on the internet, I run AdGuard Home on my own network. Umami was a way to get some analytics, without being invasive.
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Refactoring Legacy: Part 1 - DTO's & Value Objects

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By Paul Clegg
| DEV Community
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