John Misczak

In May of 2013, as Microsoft prepared to launch its new XBox console, they announced plans to tie all copies of an XBox game, both physical and digital, to a license that had to be authorized and deauthorized from your console via an online check that had…

Way back in 2016, I initially tried out an ultrawide monitor in hopes of simplifying my desk setup.

Exactly one week ago, Tim Cook broke the news that Apple would be raising the prices of its products due to the rising costs of memory and storage brought on by the AI industry’s insatiable data center demand and growth.

Way back in November of 2025, Valve made several hardware announcements that seemed to build on its previous releases.

In my post last month about rethinking my personal tech stack, I had mentioned that I had been using Ente Photos as an alternative to Google Photos, but had also been evaluating Immich.

Several years ago, I bought a Synology DS920+ to use as a network attached storage (NAS) appliance in the house.

Like many people, I usually take the start of a new year as an opportunity to reevaluate some choices and habits I have and see if there is room for improvement.

Recently, Ruby Central, the non-profit responsible for maintaining the RubyGems package manager, suffered a security incident where they temporarily lost control of their AWS account.

While AWS re:Invent doesn’t officially kick off until December 2, we are now officially in the lead up to the event, a time that often seea a flurry of new feature and service announcements.

Introduction # EC2 instances in AWS can have access to something called the instance metadata service, which makes information (namely metadata) about an instance available to applications, services, code, etc. that runs on the instance.

Introduction # Earlier this year, my team was provided access to a training budget for Google Cloud Platform that we could use in various ways to purchase classroom trainings or licenses to Google’s on-demand training platform, Cloud Skills Boost as well…

Background # One of AWS’ best practices for building and managing infrastructure in the cloud is to use consistent, accurate tags for the purposes of cost management, correct owner attribution (during operations and security incidents), and even attribute…

Recently, I had to complete a project that involved running the open source tool Cloudquery to create an inventory of resources in a GCP organization.

The annual AWS re:Invent conference has come and gone.

This is a lightning talk I gave at MongoDB World 2022.

Background # Several years back, I received a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ kit from CanaKit alongside this book.

Most developers by now are familiar with MongoDB, a NoSQL database that stores data as documents instead of rows.