Hi! My name is Klausi. I work as Principal Engineer for jobiqo. I have a master's degree in software engineering from the Vienna University of Technology where I focused my soft skill part on Gender Studies. I'm also interested in technology, politics and ethics.
You can contact me on Mastodon,
Bluesky,
LinkedIn or per email. My first name dot my last name (Klaus Purer) @protonmail.ch.
Some projects I work on:
- Coder, a coding standards checker for Drupal
- GraphQL for Drupal, a Drupal module that implements a GraphQL server API
- Mastodon Bluesky Sync, a command line tool to synchronize my posts from Mastodon to Bluesky and back
- D7Security, unofficial extended security support for Drupal 7
Moony
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Mein Sohn Moony hat sich das Leben genommen. In meiner Trauer ist dieser Text entstanden.

Testing Claude AI for Drupal code
I tested ClaudeAI for Drupal code, got inspired by Dries Buytaert video.
- 🤯 the interaction and suggestions were quite good
- 💵 execution is expensive, I paid $1.16 for 20 minutes
- 🙄 I got annoyed a couple of times, because Claude did contradictory things
Dangerous Next.js redirects - how misconfiguration can bring your website down

Security Advisory: Next.js Denial of Service vulnerability in redirect misconfiguration
- Project: Next.js
- Security Risk: Less Critical
- Vulnerability: Denial of Service (DoS)
- Category: OWASP A05:2021 – Security Misconfiguration
- Affected versions: all Next.js versions, for example 15.0.3
Note: This vulnerability has been disclosed privately to the Vercel Security Team. They decided that this is a misconfiguration issue and not an inherent security issue.
D7Security presentation at Drupal Dev Days Bourgas
Here are the slides of my Drupal Dev Days presentation about D7Security in Bourgas. Unfortunately there is no video recording.
D7Security presentation at Drupal Austria Meetup
Here are the slides and a recording of my Drupal Austria Meetup presentation about D7Security.
Drupal 7 end of life podcast: Unofficial Drupal 7 Security Team
Here is the video of my appearance on the Drupal 7 end of life podcast, talking about plans for the D7Security group. Thank you Mark Dorison and Chris Free from Chromatic for the recording!
Proposing a Drupal 7 security team
Update: The D7Security group is now established at gitlab.com/d7security and d7security.org!

The Drupal Security Team has announced in PSA-2023-06-07 that unsupported Drupal 7 modules/themes cannot be supported again. I'm proposing to create a D7Security team on Gitlab.com that can provide security fixes for those unsupported modules. A small update module can then notify Drupal 7 site owners when new security releases are available on Gitlab.com.
Fully hidden automatic system updates on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu's graphical update manager pops up every time you need to install updates. That can be annoying when you are watching a movie or doing other things and don't want to be bothered all the time. Yes, I want to always apply all updates from all sources, but please do it silently. Here is a small script I use to do that with Anacron.
