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Livestream: “The Art & Craft of Secrets: Using the Cryptographic Toolbox”

This talk will review what the crypto tools are and how they fit together with our frameworks to provide trust and privacy for our applications.

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Don’t Forget to Kick the Tires – On Automatic Monitoring & Human Intervention

Monitoring systems can only be programmed for a finite set of situations. There will always be things overlooked and complexities not anticipated.

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Amazon Lambda Auto-Deployment For Your Alexa Skill Using AWS CLI

How to use AWS CLI to auto-deploy an Amazon Alexa skill. We decided to find a way to auto-deploy our Skill with each Git commit.

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Utility to Initiate the Rebuild of Indices for CouchDB Design Document Views

I wrote a utility to aid in rebuilding the indexes for CouchDB Design Documents Views. This is particularly useful after a server migration, or data import.

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Generating a Timeline from Google Calendar

My script queries the Google Calendar API to retrieve events from different calendars, then lists the events in a timeline in order by start time.

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AWS IoT Help Button

I procured one of the new AWS IoT buttons and programmed it to page me when pushed. This ensures I can provide timely hands-on help around the office.

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Easy Secure Web Serving with OpenBSD’s acme-client and Let’s Encrypt

Using OpenBSD, acme-client, and Let's Encrypt, it's almost entirely painless to set up a secure web server. This post walks you through getting set up.

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Conference Room A/V Build-Out

Our new conference room A/V setup gives us important capabilities required for many of our meetings, especially teleconferences.

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How (and Why) to Log Your Entire Bash History

An easy bit of Bash configuration that will log your bash history to dated log files so you can refer back to them at any point in the future.

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Ansible Communication with AWS EC2 Instances on a VPC

Using SSH options like ProxyCommand, Ansible can readily work with privately addressed EC2 instances on a AWS VPC subnet.

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Managing AWS Route 53 Hosted Zones with AWS Lambda

I wrote an AWS Lamda function to automatically update DNS records in a Route 53 hosted zone whenever EC2 instances are launched.

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Managing AWS CloudFront Security Group with AWS Lambda

There's no pre-built security group to allow inbound traffic from CloudFront, so I made an AWS Lambda function to periodically update our security group.

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