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
