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Last night I was updating the Switch OS on my Mikrotik routers. I was doing it remotely, cause that's what you do when you only live three minutes away from the site. It was not working. Automatic update. No joy. Manual update? Nope. It'd flash…

I'm fundamentally lazy when it comes to running infrastructure management tools. I don't like running a ton of virtual machines that I have to keep updated and backed up. I'd much rather run a collection of web apps on a single server. Since the user…

One common task on the iToysoldiers site was making stuff visible to a user either because it was created by that user or because it was not. Case in point: Each player has a dashboard. That dashboard shows them all sorts of things. One of…

I'm in the process of revamping my internet precense as well as my employer's websites. Considering that the bulk of this stuff can be accomplished without a dynamic website I've turned to AWS Cloudfront distributions pulling from AWS S3 buckets for the bulk of my…

I feel that the title of this post is a bit "click baity". But bear with me. I swear it's legit. If where you work has a tight IT budget or even no budget to speak of - instead allocating funds as they're justified, then…