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Lately my family and I have been playing a lot of the game Kingdom Two Crowns. It’s a really fun and pretty relaxing game to play together. Two players, split screen, helping eachother expand and defend. We play together on the Playstation, but I also have a copy on PC. Realising the game is developed ... Read more The post Using a Hex Editor to modify Kingdom Two Crowns appeared first on…
I have been working on moving a collection of about 20-30 AWS accounts from two different AWS Organizations into a new AWS Organization with Control Tower enabled. During the process I have run into a number of different blockers and issues which have not always had the most obvious solutions due to cryptic errors that ... Read more The post AWS Control Tower Enrollment Gotchas appeared first on…
If you’re on macOS and wanting to find out what system calls (syscalls) are being made by a process or application, you may have found that strace is not an option. This is a quick post to demonstrate how to use DTrace to monitor system calls made by a process on macOS. System Integrity Protection ... Read more The post DTrace/dtruss – an alternative to strace on macOS appeared first on…
I wanted a really simple stand reminder app in my system tray to remind me to stand up once in a while while working at my standing desk. (I started getting lazy and sitting most of the day instead of standing!) After trying a couple of apps on macOS, I didn’t have much success. One ... Read more The post Stand Reminder App – Remember to Stand appeared first on Shogan.tech .
A quick post with some useful querying patterns when using JMESPath queries to find keys in a target S3 bucket. Finding and filtering with JMESPath expressions Find keys ending or starting with a certain value, and sort by Size Here is a JMESPath query using s3api to find and sort keys based on the ending ... Read more The post S3 Object Querying with JMESPath appeared first on Shogan.tech .
A quick vim cheatsheet for those of us who enjoy using vim, but don’t use it often enough to have the command sequences committed to memory. Starting with the simplest operations, and then moving on to a few more complex and difficult to remember ones. Remember that you always start in normal/visual mode. To enter ... Read more The post Vim Cheatsheet appeared first on Shogan.tech .
This blog tends to ocassionally crossover to some of my other hobbies, and that is definitely the case for this post. I have been learning to fly. Specifically, I’m looking at getting my private pilot’s license (PPL). Moving from England to West Wales (Pembrokeshire) toward the end of last year, we now find ourselves in ... Read more The post Learning to fly (PPL) appeared first on Shogan.tech .
The GeForce 2 MX GPU was a big upgrade milestone for me back in the early 2000s. I had previously run a 3dfx Voodoo 2 PCI graphics card. Soon though, it was no longer able to cope with the games I was throwing at it. With that, I saved up enough money to shell out ... Read more The post Retro Hardware – GeForce 2 MX appeared first on Shogan.tech .
I’ve been a Spotify subscriber on and off for at least 12 years now. Things started off pretty great but there have been a number of bumps in the road where I have temporarily cancelled my subscription. These Spotify issues have again put my subscription back into a ‘cancelled’ state. The last time I cancelled ... Read more The post Spotify issues appeared first on Shogan.tech .
A while ago I posted my home storage server build which at the time was setup to run FreeNAS. Things have moved on in that space and FreeNAS has been replaced with TrueNAS Core. I thought I would post my FreeNAS to TrueNAS upgrade experience. First off the recommendation is to ensure you’re on the ... Read more The post FreeNAS to TrueNAS upgrade appeared first on Shogan.tech .