On frustrating interview practices
Why I declined a CoderPad challenge, what happened when I did, and what the response revealed.
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Teeny Tiny Weather Service
A weather report in 9,808 bytes
Right-Sizing EKS in Practice
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A practical FinOps case study on replacing AWS NAT Gateways with FreeBSD NAT instances.
Introducing: S-Corp™
Using Comnoco to automate startup nonsense at scale.
AI: MCP - Eeeeeek!
Casting a critical eye over MCP for AI
Upgrading Kubernetes on EKS
Step by Step upgrading from 1.29 to 1.32.
Connecting Github Actions to AWS
Connecting GitHub Actions to AWS Using OIDC and an Assumed Role
AWS + Azure - Single Sign On
Configuring Azure Entra ID to login to AWS
Introduction to DevSecOps - Part 4
AWS Specific Tooling: Amazon Inspector
Introduction to DevSecOps - Part 3
AWS Specific Tooling for DevSecOps
Migrating this Blog... Again
NPM Dependency Hell, trying to upgrade Gatsby
Introduction to DevSecOps - Part 1
For me, this is the future.
Introduction to DevSecOps - Part 2
Tooling and Pipelines and Logs. Oh My!
Adventures in AWS App Runner
Getting started with a relatively new AWS service
I am now an AWS Community Builder
Focussing on knowledge sharing throughout the AWS Community
Repairing HFS+, Recovering Data
The process I went through to recover data off a dead macbook
Building a Cheap-ass VPN for AWS
Home/Office to VPC connectivity for a lower cost
IPv6 Only EC2 - Is it now a reality?
Yesnaby.
Terraforming RabbitMQ on AWS for Celery
I’ve been making things with Django since around 2009. Usually I just deploy a thing onto a DigitalOcean droplet, and move on. For an interesting challenge this time around, I thought I’d make a thing that’s as AWS native as I possibly can, whilst keeping within the Free Tier. I wrote last week about the difficulties surrounding the fact that the AWS Free Tier doesn’t…
AWS Cloudfront and Cloudflare DNS
Multi-cloud Free Tiers
Migrating this Blog
Moving this blog to the CLOUD!
Monitoring the Systems that Monitor the Weather
Featuring Telegraf
Monitoring the Weather
Featuring InfluxDB, Grafana and Arduinos
Simple 2-Factor Auth for Linux or Unix with Duo
Two factor all the things!
COTS Series: Endpoint Antivirus/Antimalware
Protect all the things!
COTS Series: Enterprise Patch Management
Update all the things!
The 'Change One Thing' Rule
A rule to live by
Part 5: Ansible Galaxy
Part 5 of 5
Part 4: Ansible Tower
Part 4 of 5
Part 3: Ansible and Amazon Web Services
Part 3 of 5
Part 2: Deploying Applications with Ansible
Part 2 of 5
Part 1: Getting Started With Ansible
Part 1 of 5 all about Ansible
VPN Technologies: A Primer
Know your IPsec from your OpenVPN
Things That Concern Me: Unified Threat Management
Is it all it's cracked up to be?
FakeRAID and Virtualisation
Here Be Dragons
When should I use eval()?
Never.
How To: Find a rogue DHCP server on your network
Pesky things.
Freeswitch on a Raspberry Pi
Build your own PBX for under $40
Lightning Post: Dumping MS DNS to Bind
Too short for a full blog post
One Size Does Not Fit All
Interviews are not like hats
Why Do Corners Get Cut?
If it ain't broke, but isn't perfect, should it be fixed?
On Interviews
Notes on Interviews
How I Broke AWS OpsWorks
A service that I've never used since
Step By Step AWS EC2 Tutorial
Blogposts age like fish
Building and Scaling PDFTribute
Building a website to handle thousands of views per minute, with zero budget
2012: Retrospective
Wrapping up 2012
Dennis Nedry and the Human Single Point of Failure
It's all fun and games until the raptor fences go down
Transferrable Skills in Higher Education
So.. it transpires that I have a friend who studied Physics at Imperial College, and as a part of that, was taught how to use C++ “As a tool to help with computational physics” . - His words, not mine. As a result, he has no explicit knowledge of some of the finer points of C++ programming, no idea how a binary search algorithm works, why you’d use a Deque and when you’d use a Vector.
Jenkins as a Job Dispatch Engine
Automating the boring tasks