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This is a quick post about checking TLS version support using the command line. Of course, there are plenty of GUI tools and online services to do this. Yet, I find it is much easier to use just a simple command to check this. I'm going to use badssl.com to test this out since it provides various examples with different SSL configurations. We'll be using openssl command to check this. Openssl is a command-line tool to work with SSL connections. If you don't have it in your machine, you'll have to install it first. Let's check a website that supports TLS1.0 TLS 1.0 has been deprecated by all web browsers and servers due to security vulnerabilities in that protocol version which you shouldn't use at all. If you have this enabled in your sever/website, please disable ASAP. openssl s_client -connect tls-v1-0.badssl.com:1010 -tls1 Let's break the command to it's parts openssl : command line tool s_client : s_client is the first command of this t...

If you are not a born designer, making background images for your web sites is always a headache. Since I felt lazy to always go to a designer, I found some online tools to do that for me. Hope they will help others like me as well. These low poly backgrounds were always fascinated me and wanted to use some in my web sites as well. These are some tools you can use to generate them without any effort. https://qrohlf.com/trianglify-generator/ http://alssndro.github.io/trianglify-background-generator/ http://matthew.wagerfield.com/flat-surface-shader/ https://msurguy.github.io/triangles/ Water pipes is another awesome artwork http://dragdropsite.github.io/waterpipe.js/ Since everybody is talking about material design lately this will be helpful. http://www.stringsistemas.com/materialgenerator.html Finally some CSS gradient generators http://www.webcore-it.com/colorful-background/# http://gradient.quasi.ink/