A few years back, my wife needed a new Windows machine. I didn’t want to get new hardware, so I convinced her to try out an EC2 instance instead. Instead of an EEEPC with an 8” screen, she got upgraded to a Macbook that would RDP into an EC2 instance. Using a t3.large and an IoT button for powering…
AWS’s application load balancers support routing traffic to different locations based on HTTP request characteristics. This is helpful if you want to allow users to opt-in to use a new service. Typically I’ve used feature flags to determine if a user should see new features, but feature flags are…
I recently bought a Pixelbook, which is great for lots of things, but not coding. I knew this at purchase time, however, so I just planned on SSH’ing wherever I wanted to work. Most of my home projects live on a personal EC2 instance I’ve set up. It lives in an autoscale group whose size is…
Trying to make a Debian package and host it on S3 is and should be easy. But finding up to date examples and docs hasn’t been. So, to save the next person some effort, here are some tools and ways to go about building your own Debian package, signing it, and hosting it on S3 such that it can be…
This started as a simple “hey here’s how you make Sentry good in Lambda,” and then I just kept going and now it’s how we manage all the things that could go wrong in Lambda in production. I’ve been doing a lot with AWS Lambda lately. Coupling it with AWS’s API Gateway, where I work we’ve built an…
I’ve four kids (and we’re done). My oldest is 9, and my youngest is 2. The oldest always wakes up around 5am, and the toddler wakes up around 6:30. I don’t like waking up at 6:30, and the oldest can now get her out of the crib. So, every morning around 6:30, I hear the two year old start crying and…
Internally I’m setting up Atlassian’s Stash, and one of the first projects I wanted to get going was my own projects that were previously hosted on Github. For Rails deployment, I love Mina, so I was hoping it’d be as simple as placing my public key on Stash and changing the repository URL in config…
The Nest app and website give you 10 days of usage information for your thermostat(s). Unfortunately, they offer no way to view data beyond that, which sucks if you want to compare usage month to month, or measure changes longer than 10 days (e.g., “did my solar screens make a difference?”). So, I…
Quickly set up Ghost to run on Phusion Passenger.
