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Homelab revisited
Way back in early 2020 I started documenting my misadventures in homelabbing, also known as quick and easy ways to annoy your spouse. Over the course …
Charcoal smoking a pork shoulder
Continuing on with my calamitous barbeque odyssey, in late Jan I smoked a big ol chunk of pork shoulder for pulled pork.
Unlike my recent brisket …
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 chunks of meats. Over the years I’ve had …
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 into home automation. I’m also a tightarse. …
Instrumenting autoscaling EC2 instances in Prometheus
Prometheus is time series database use for metrics and alerting. Coupled with Grafana it’s my go-to solution for instrumenting metrics for …
Dealing with silent failures
Living on hopes and prayers
How many of you manually check a mission-critical script or task every day to ensure it’s actually run? And, how …
AWS Automation Wizardry
In one of my previous posts I demonstrated the use of AWS Secrets Manager for securely keeping and maintaining the state of a Laravel application .env …
Lessons learned from a DDoS attack
One of our brands recently suffered a DDoS attack - thankfully not a sustained one, but enough to impact website availability and rethink our …
Cloudflare - is it worth it?
So this website is still in its infancy. Less than a week old, in fact.
During my setup process (which I’ll detail in a forthcoming …
Using AWS Secrets Manager for .env files
Managing environment files for highly-available cloud apps can be tricky. The easiest option, of course, is to embed these environment files into your …