Vermyndax's Lair

Probably the toughest and most mind-boggling thing about any cloud profession is that you could easily spend your entire career working and learning about one of the cloud providers, such as Amazon or Azure.

This morning’s toilet read from Medium was amazing.

A famous Chinese actor once starred in a goofy movie entitled, “Who am I?”

I happened to see someone mention forestry.io on a Hugo forum.

I really want to use my iPad to write code.

Recently, my mother moved in with us because she has needs that require her to be attended.

Those of you who know me personally may be familiar with the fact that I want nothing to do with management or leadership.

“President” Trump is a dangerous egotistical narcisstic criminal who may very well likely fry this nation in an iron skillet.

I have a number of technical options available for my setup.

I really love Terraform.

Extremely hot rumor that Microsoft is releasing an emergency Windows patch for 2016 and 10 tomorrow.

As you can see, I’ve started to offer some Amazon ads in the site.

I updated the pipeline that builds this site into Hugo 0.62.2 and all hell broke loose.

On the surface, this seems funny.

Last night, we solved a long-standing bug in one of our Terraform modules.

Day 5 of re:Invent 2019 came and my body had already went.

By day 4, my attention span and body were starting to give out.

Day 4 of re:Invent 2019 and my suspicions were correct: This show was being run much better than before.

On day 2 of Re:Invent 2019, it was pretty clear that Amazon Web Services had done a lot of work to scale this conference out.

I’m at Amazon Web Services’ Re:Invent 2019.

I’ve spent a number of years working in a few DevOps/DevSecOps roles to transform organizations into new ways of doing business.

My series on whining about macOS Catalina continues today as I tried to use AWS Cloud9 in Safari.

I managed to get a fresh install of Google Chrome working under Catalina.

WARNING: Unfortunately negative post.

There are two ways to progress your career in federal IT: Make up work for others to do on the fly Usually this involves process or procedure - these are your best weapons for this maneuver Sit on meetings all day to listen as others do what you made up f…

The Starbucks cup.

One of the things that plagues me in this business is the rampant ADHD.

I’m at the NAB show in Las Vegas, NV this week.

You must be kidding.

It seems to me… If you’re a responsible gun owner, wouldn’t you be ok with justifying that you’re a responsible gun owner?

2018 has come to a close.

Last week, I sat for the AWS DevOps Professional certification.

You may have figured out that the site has changed once again.

I just completed some work on a little project with some unique requirements.

Did you create a multi-tier Elastic Beanstalk deployment?

DFARS.

Love someone in the way they need, not in the way you think they need.

I just got a note that Amazon API Gateway is now available in AWS GovCloud.

Stephen King… I used to love you.

If you hired a cloud consultant that heartily recommends a “lift and shift” migration and they assure you that everything will be fine… Fire them.

I must really be out of the loop.

Dear Blizzard… I am sick and tired of being penalized with losses and season ranking demotions because people on my team left the match.

In iOS 11, you don’t only have to use the dock for single apps.

Microsoft will be killing off “Microsoft Paint” in the next release of Windows 10 (the so-called “Fall Creator’s Update”).

If you’ve visited this site recently, you’ll discover that I’m really sick of Wordpress.

It’s time for this blog to be born again.

Be careful when you’re working with CloudFormation in the AWS GovCloud region.

Yesterday I sat for the most difficult IT certification test I’ve ever attempted – the AWS Solutions Architect Professional test.

If you’re plagued by the Apple Software Update popping up every day to remind you that iCloud for Windows 5.1 is available to install… even when you already have it installed… you need to go registry-diving.

It looks like Satya Nadella’s strategies are paying off.