UPDATE (03/23/2020): Folding@Home has done an AMA, with the full thread available here. Coronavirus (COVID-19) is officially a pandemic, as stated by the World Health Organization (WHO). Though, did you know that you can have the unused resources of...
I just wanted to drop a little post into the universe that support for Python 2.x has officially stopped, and is at End of Life (EOL). What’s this about updates into April 2020? What does this mean for hosted/serverless solutions, like AWS Lambda or...
UPDATED 02/03/2020: Updated a handful of links based on the January 2020 changes to both exams, having moved to Kubernetes v1.17.x I’ve been wanting to learn Kubernetes for a while now. Thanks to Linux Academy, I’ve been able to get two Kubernetes c...
The Quick Summary Would you like to take a look at a human-readable changelog of AWS CloudFormation resource offerings? Take a look here: aws-cfn-resource-specs/CHANGELOG.md It is a result of updates AWS does to their AWS CloudFormation Resource Spec...
Want to automatically deploy an OpenVPN EC2 instance, running on Amazon Linux 2, to AWS? One that auto-produces an OVPN configuration file that is compatible with OpenVPN Connect, on both Android and iOS? This article is a breakdown of the following...
I just wanted to drop a little post into the universe that Node.js 8.10 is soon to reach End of Life (EOL), and provide some simple auditing commands. With the Node.js 12.x now available on AWS Lambda, people should evaluate how they can tweak and mi...
NOTE: This post expands on some content previously mentioned in Scraping Docs to Generate PowerShell Help in VaporShell, but doesn’t need to be read to understand what’s happening here. “This looks cool.” When I first had seen the AWS CloudFormation...
HackerRank is an excellent website to create code based on prompt challenges, prepare for coding interviews, search for jobs, and to see how the community has approached the solutions over time. The author wanted to dive into the Python focused solut...
Recently, I became interested in what code repositories were automatically generated from the AWS CloudFormation Resource Specification files. These act as schema in how CloudFormation templates must be built. Tools that came to mind as already likel...
UPDATE 11/18/19: Added some additional notes to include mention of AWS Config, Zelkova, and some info about tools by Rhino Security Labs like Pacu (thanks to input by @andrewbrown!) S3NakedInPublic: The Common Misconfiguration that Lands Companies in...