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December 23, 2020

Note to Self - Using AWS Client’s S3 Sync

This is pretty easy to do. If you use homebrew on a mac, open a terminal and type: brew install awscli I’m assuming that you can to apt-get install awscli on Linux, as...

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December 23, 2020

Setting up an AWS S3 bucket for your static web site

Target Audience This post is aimed at relatively capable web/dev ops. People like me. I’ll probably re-read this myself in a few months or a year when I forget how to go about this. “Static...

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December 23, 2020

Setting up DNS for your AWS S3 static web site

Target Audience This post is aimed at relatively capable web/devops. People like me. I’m not going to remember everything, so I’ll probably re-read this myself in a few months or a year when I...

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December 23, 2020

WordPress-to-static using wget mirror functionality and AWS S3

I like using WordPress. I’ve used it, AEM, Jekyll, a version of Laravel-as-CMS (currently Jigsaw and a lot of custom built code (in the early days). I don’t like how WordPress seems to be a main...

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December 14, 2020

Using Screaming Frog to Keep a Monolithic Web Site Hygenic

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I worked on an Adobe Experience Manager install for about two years. This particular company used AEM like a stock WordPress website with no plugins. We had custom components and policies on...

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December 13, 2020

What is Computronium?

I was reading around, and stumbled upon this Wikipedia article. I was like… whoa, that sounds good. But… it’s pretty vague. “…a substrate for…(uh, what?) a hypothetical...

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April 30, 2020

Loosely Coupled

Examples of "Loosely Coupled" in the real world. Restaurant Kitchen: Think of a restaurant where chefs specialize in different types of cuisine (e.g., Italian, Chinese, Mexican). Each chef can...

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January 25, 2020

Valentine’s Day Diary

I like this energetic audio-diary format, somewhat of a Mockumentary. I’ve done previous versions for Mother’s Day and the 4th of July, and a non-holiday version for a doctor’s appointment (way...

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December 1, 2017

Hacked Feed - Have You Ever Been Robbed?

This is the second of two “Hacked Feed” podcasts. I did interviews with hackers who attended the Dallas Hackers Association monthly meetup. In this recording, I asked, “have you ever been...

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November 1, 2017

Hacked Feed - Have You Ever Been Hacked?

This is the first of two (so far) “Hacked Feed” recordings. I asked hackers who visited the Dallas Hacker’s Association meetup if they had ever been hacked, and how it felt if they had. I love...

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