Aaron's Blog

A small (lol) project to re-use an ATX PSU to power a WS2812B LED strip.

I've printed enough on my Prusa MK4S 3D printer that the location for the initial purge to clean the nozzle has ripped a layer off the bed.

I've been wanting to do my ESPHome development in Neovim, but the autocompletion and diagnostic capabilities in the dashboard make it hard to leave it.

Recently fixed an issue with my "Dyson Purifier CoolTM Fan" (TP07) and wanted to share for anyone else that was having the same issue.

Making a smart power switch for my PC that doesn't support Wake-on-LAN.

Just because I see it all too often, so here's some examples.

A summary of my adventures in the GoPro Quik app, mp4 metadata, root on Android, ADB, static linking and ffmpeg in Termux.

So you want to lock down your Terraform state?

Intuitively, to update a package using npm, you might assume you need to run something like: npm update This command does nothing.

Fluent Bit is a log shipping agent, designed to be lightweight and run in distributed environments.

SRAM don't make it particularly easy to find a quick reference on eTAP AXS front derailleur adjustment without having to sit through a Youtube video.

A short summary of the two types of VPC Endpoints and how they work.

A horrible hack that allows you to create a VPN tunnel from your workstation to any of your EC2 instances -- even one you don't have direct network access to, such as an instance in a private subnet.

This blog entry is the story of my experience in implemeting a CMS as a consultant.

Pod Security Policies (PSPs) are an important component of security in Kubernetes.

Exploring GitLab's new Directed Acyclic Graph feature to build monorepo CI/CD pipelines.

To revert the last n commits using git: git revert HEAD~3..HEAD

Some real-world examples on how to smoke test infrastructure.

A few thoughts and photos on the Sydney AWS Summit 2019.

Google's gVisor exists to provide a true sandbox for your Docker containers.

Arc Dark sudo dnf install arc-theme gnome-tweaks nvim { "catppuccin/nvim", -- https://github.com/catppuccin/nvim name = "catppuccin", lazy = false, priority = 1000, opts = { dim_inactive = { enabled = true, -- dims t…

Just a list of antipatterns I'm not going to elaborate on in no particular order Boiling the ocean Big bang deliveries Developer portals Abstracting the cloud from your engineers Multi-cloud Implementing tooling beyond your maturity Ignoring boring, simple

SRE is what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operations team.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run and scale containerized applications on AWS.

Ever needed to do CI on a centralised CloudFormation repository, and struggled to get template validation done quickly?

Some gripes on AWS Application Load balancers.

Here are some cool plugins for Serverless: serverless-log-forwarding > I want a log solution that is both durable and has powerful search capabilities CloudWatch Logs is reliable, but that's about it.

Ever wanted to move a Python virtualenv around but found it didn't work?

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