Using rtorrent with dynamic vpn port
I use the rtorrent command line tool from time to time to download things distributed via torrents, and have found it annoying to update the config file when...
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Automating movie reviews to Jekyll
I’ve been putting my movie reviews on Letterboxd for a while now, but haven’t felt like duplicating effort to also copy them to my personal site where I’ve b...
Testing markdown details
Let’s see if this works.
Things I learned from DDoS attack against AWS CloudFront and WAF
Some things I learned as an AWS customer from a moderately sized (350k req/sec) DDoS attack against AWS CloudFront and WAF.
Security RSS feeds
I follow the RSS feeds for the following security sites to keep up to date on what’s going on.
Move to Jekyll
As discussed on my personal blog, I’ve moved all the more technical posts from there to this site, and also moved both sites from Ghost to Jekyll (link at th...
Bitbucket Pipeline multiline environment variables
I recently had a case where I wanted to use a ssh private key in a Bitbucket Pipeline, and found out that Bitbucket Pipeline environment variables do not sup...
Azure CLI VM quick commands
A few quick commands for Azure CLI to do stuff with virtual machines, so I don’t have to try and remember them…
Issue expanding Synology NAS volume
This week I decided to take advantage of some sales on hard drives to replace a couple of the older drives in my Synology NAS that were out of warranty, movi...
Plex Podcasts feature is amazingly bad
I recently (re?)discovered that the podcast app I use on Android was using an annual subscription model instead of a one-time fee. I’m OK with paying $10-15 ...