February 05, 2023 Charcoal smoking a pork shoulder Continuing on with my calamitous barbeque odyssey, in late Jan I smoked a big ol chunk of pork …
February 05, 2023 Homelab revisited Way back in early 2020 I started documenting my misadventures in homelabbing, also known as quick …
January 30, 2023 Smoked brisket in a Pit Boss pellet grill Since moving into my place in the hills nine years ago I’ve been interested in smoking large …
April 22, 2022 Persistent addressing for USB devices in Linux So I’ve decided that I just have way too much free time and, therefore, should dive head-first …
May 09, 2020 Instrumenting autoscaling EC2 instances in Prometheus Prometheus is time series database use for metrics and alerting. Coupled with Grafana it’s my …
May 05, 2020 Dealing with silent failures Living on hopes and prayers How many of you manually check a mission-critical script or task every …
April 05, 2020 AWS Automation Wizardry In one of my previous posts I demonstrated the use of AWS Secrets Manager for securely keeping and …
February 22, 2020 Lessons learned from a DDoS attack One of our brands recently suffered a DDoS attack - thankfully not a sustained one, but enough to …
February 19, 2020 Cloudflare - is it worth it? So this website is still in its infancy. Less than a week old, in fact. During my setup process …
February 17, 2020 Using AWS Secrets Manager for .env files Managing environment files for highly-available cloud apps can be tricky. The easiest option, of …