SG Junior Back in the distant past I used to play guitar. Not well, but well enough for a punk band. Since then I gave it up, nominally because I have tendonitis
Spaghetti Sauce I learned to cook spaghetti when I was 11 (I think, maybe 12?) and over the years I have developed a 'go to' recipe that is super easy and which I quite like. Here it is: Ingredients 3 8oz cans of no salt added
Moving during a pandemic TL;DR it's not recommended Sometime last year (2019) my wife and I began seriously discussing moving to be closer to her parents. Later that summer we went out to visit and look around at where we'd like to settle in the area close
AWS AWS, SAML, Lambda and a Makefile I have a Go AWS Lambda job that I release using a Makefile in the project. As part of the release I need to tell the Lambda job to update to the latest binary (kept in an S3 bucket). We use SAML for credentials,
Life Executor If I had known what I know now about being the executor of someone's trust/estate I'd have tried really hard to not take the job. It would have been
DNS Added a pi-hole to my network I had read about the pi-hole project, and decided to make one, because the Raspberry Pi is neat hardware and I hate ads and tracking. Having once work in ad-tech
Career On dealing with naysayers This post might come back to haunt me someday, but... Today a friend of mine mentioned that a new leadership hire shot down something he mentioned, claiming that it was too ambitious or out of reach. Naturally this was upsetting, as well as a
Cryptography I can't say enough good things about 1Password. I can't recommend 1Password strongly enough. When huge breaches like this one come to light you can use their integration with haveibeenpwned to find out what username/password combos have
SaltStack Generate Secure Pillar Anyone using Salt Stack should be familiar with using secure pillar files. If not, here is a basic intro I created for setting it up. Using the secure pillar can
