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Everyone has an opinion about grocery prices.

For years I had no idea who was sending email as justplainsimple.com.

I was recently invited to participate in a leadership panel and was asked a question about being the person who would “jump on a grenade” for the team by owning the implementation of a solution.

I was recently asked to be part of a focus group for a new performance management framework.

A common refrain from people nowadays is the obviousness that AI is being used to create their content.

Cyber is useful as an executive umbrella term, but dangerous when practitioners adopt it as precise language.

The Problem If you run database migrations with Flyway inside Docker containers, you’ve probably noticed the steady stream of CVE findings from your vulnerability scanner.

When your organization runs Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) for zero trust network access, you inevitably need visibility into what’s happening: who’s connecting, what they’re accessing, and whether your app connectors are healthy.

These are the songs I was listening to this year. edamame – bbno$, Rich Brian AAAHH MEN!

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately on a particular topic and I have come to the conclusion that I have a confession to make.

AWS Identity Centre makes access sane, but the config file still ends up full of manual work.

I keep a lot of repositories spread across organizations.

Most risk matrices fall apart because the numbers are vibes.

Most meetings fail before they start.

I keep a risk register for the same reason I keep a TODO list: memory is not a system.

If you’ve been running AWS ECS for any length of time, you’ve likely noticed something annoying: task definition revisions accumulate.

Over the years, GitHub organizations tend to accumulate repositories.

If you’ve ever worked with AWS Security Hub, you know the feeling: thousands of security findings scattered across multiple accounts, buried in the AWS console, and no easy way to share them with your team.

When I migrated this blog from Middleman to Hugo, I made a deliberate choice that might seem unusual: I use UUIDv7 identifiers as the URL slugs for all my blog posts.

This week I was tasked with discovering what my core values are.

In a recent article, I added a code block for MermaidJS and found that neither Hugo nor my theme (PaperMod) would support MermaidJS.

I’ve been designing VPC architectures in AWS, conventional wisdom tells us to avoid overlapping CIDR blocks.

Alternate title: So You’ve Found Yourself in a Security Incident I’ve attended, commanded and, yes, caused, many security incidents in my career.

Jira is such a lovely tool.

This article is adapted from an internal company blog post.

ChatGPT has the concept of “traits”, which is one of the ways that you can customize ChatGPT’s responses to you.

These are the songs I was listening to this year.

This article is adapted from a corporate newsletter article I wrote.

These are the songs I was listening to this year.

An overweight man comes into the doctor’s office.

I was helping out IT this week with an automation task they had: they want to sync the data in UKG (an HRIS platform) with the data in the IdP.

One of the common patterns in my life is to surround myself with people with whom I allow to abuse me.

I routinely come up with what I think are million dollar ideas.

A person dear to me, who is new to the tech world, asked me a simple question: “What is a static website?”

A long time ago I wrote about my method of book-keeping using Ledger CLI.

I recently had to go through the mandatory annual training around ethics, security, and handling sensitive data.

The previous part in this series introduced ChatGPT and explained my motivations for testing it out.

I love computer technology.

As we kick off 2023, the technology industry is grappling with an unprecedented wave of layoffs, leading to a phenomenon that I am coining the “2022 Tech Bust.”

As I see it, there are 3 ways for a company to increase its profits.

These are the songs I was listening to this year.

These are the songs I was listening to this year.

These are the songs I was listening to this year.

2020 has been quite a tough year for human relationships.

I love efficient meetings.

This is part 4 in a series of articles.

This is part 3 in a series of articles.

This is part 2 in a series of articles.

This is part 1 in a series of articles.

I have just started reading Tribe of Hackers by Marcus Carey (et al).