Today i learned, quite by accident, that the Chrome certificate error page can be quite useful! If you get an NET::ERR_CERT_something-or-the-other error message, you can click that NET::ERR_CERT... code. Your cursor won’t change, indicating that the text is clickable, but it will display the problematic certificate or cert chain in PEM format. You can then copy the certificate. On your terminal, invoke the spell pbpaste | openssl x509 -noout -text (replacing pbpaste with whatever command on Linux or Windows to paste the contents of the clipboard if so needed)

I got a message from Graham Pugh from the Mac Admins' Slack that my blog was lagging. This was a bit surprising because it is served from Gitlab Pages, which should have all the resources in the world. So i looked under the hood. And i was surprised.