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SSH Agent Forwarding is a magical feature of SSH that I see too many people don t understand or know how it works. Using an SSH Key for authentication is superior to a password for many reasons. But it gets more complicated when you SSH from one machine, and then want to SSH from that machine [ ] The post SSH Agent Forwarding An Underutilized Essential Tool appeared first on Brandon Checketts .
The Walt Disney Company should start a third-party software developer program. There are plenty of hobbyists and small developers that would like to have official access to some of the data available for the theme parks, Disney Plus, and other data available from the company. If done with an approval process, and perhaps even incentives, [ ] The post Disney Should Have a Developer Program appeared…
Disney runs quite a few properties including disneyplus.com, hulu.com, espn.com, abc.com, and a bunch of obviously Disney sites like shopdisney.com, disneyworld.disney.go.com, and disneycruise.disney.go.com. They have a centralized authentication system so all of these sites can use the same email address and password to log in. It has a couple major problems though: It isn t obvious [ ] The post…
Lots of services need to validate ownership of a domain. Especially for sending email or creating SSL certificates Creating a TXT record at the domain root (@) is a common practice and I think it should be avoided. Many services like to request adding things to this same record. That creates several concerns: It leaks [ ] The post Stop Validating Domain Ownership with @ TXT Records appeared first…
It has been a few years since I ve had to migrate data between Google Workspace accounts, but I recently had to do it again. Google has made some improvements! Namely they have a Migration Service now where you can provide a list of user accounts to migrate from old account to new and it will [ ] The post Migrating Between Google Workspace Accounts appeared first on Brandon Checketts .
I ve been getting more and more spam on my calendar lately. It s actually gotten pretty out-of-control with Bitcoin and PayPal scams, and anti-virus software I didn t buy wanting me to call to cancel. Google Trends shows the sharp uptick in search volume for Calendar Spam in the recent month or two I figured this was [ ] The post Google Calendar Spam is on the rise! ZapSpam is here to help!…
CodeDeploy with AutoScalingGroups is a bit of a complex mess to get working correctly. Especially with an app that has been working and needs to be updated for more modern functionality Update the startups scripts with the latest versions from https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-codedeploy-samples/tree/master/load-balancing/elb-v2 I found even the latest scripts there still not working. My…
At Data Automation, we recently built some stuff for use in ShipStation s Auctane Fulfillment Network , as it is called in the API. It looks like they refer to it as Send Orders To Fulfillment in their documentation This is a fairly clever innovation where if the Seller has ShipStation, and their Third Party Logistics (3PL) [ ] The post ShipStation s Auctane Fulfillment Network for 3PLs appeared…
A good friend of mine owns Sherwood Forest Tree Service which mostly does cutting down and pruning trees in area in Northeast Georgia. That s outside what I normally work with, but I ve enjoyed learning about and helping with his business. I m seeing a lot of opportunities to use some technology in different aspects of his [ ] The post Thinking Outside the Box Helping with a Tree Service Business…
Apparently Google thinks I m an expert at SSH Keys, so I m providing an update to my previous post two years ago with some slight updates. You can tell quite a bit about other IT professionals from their Public SSH Key! I often work with others and ask for their key when granting access to a [ ] The post SSH Key Best Practices for 2025 Using ed25519, key rotation, and other best practices appeared…