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Cyberboy
I’m not sure when it started exactly, probably the first time I watched either Star Wars or Star Trek, but it feels like I’ve always wanted to have a handheld device for... really anything I could think--mainly controlling things around the house and hacking (think the capabilities of Smart House
Building Demoji: A Small Tool That Helped Me Test A Much Larger Idea
I built Demoji because I wanted a small, bounded place to test some ideas that were too easy to overthink inside a much larger project. On the surface, Demoji is straightforward. It is a small TypeScript CLI that scans codebases for emoji, classifies what it finds, and can either report
Homelab Rebuild Focusing on IaC, GitOps, and Automation
I’ve learned quite a bit these past few years, but it’s been an iterative process along the way with some not-so-best practices being implemented just to get things working and to learn. So FirbLab is the culmination of everything I’ve learned over these past few years– figuring out what works,
DnD and IaC
It’s a thing of beauty when two of your passions come together. I’ve been interested in technological infrastructure for a few years now and have been learning everything I can in that time. A few months ago, I began playing Dungeons and Dragons with some friends and instantly became obsessed
Technical Deep Dive: Building a Cost-Effective Ghost Blog on AWS with Terraform
Introduction: Infrastructure as Code for Blog Hosting * Why Terraform for infrastructure management * Project goals and technical requirements * Repository structure and organization Part 1: AWS Architecture Overview * Architectural diagram and component breakdown * Resource relationships and dependencies * High-level implementation strategy Part 2: Setting Up the AWS Environment * AWS provider configuration provider “aws”