The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI is a pretty slick way to start building microservices quickly. One thing I struggled with for a while was, how do I prevent bad people from accessing my API? This ended up being
Before you begin, I’ve had some bizarre issues getting this to work correctly on Windows. The zip file that gets uploaded to AWS has some odd permissions on it, which cause things to break. I recommend using OSX, Linux, or
As root crontab -e and add: 4 12 * * * /usr/bin/find /backup/20* -mtime +30 -delete Explanation: 4 12 5 * * At 12:04pm on the 5th of every month /usr/bin/find /backup/20* Find directories in /backup/ that begin with “20”
Amazon Lightsail is a new service on AWS which appears to be targeted at hosts like Digital Ocean and Linode. There’s a pretty neat “Launch Script” feature! Here’s a quick guide to automated Docker installs. Login to AWS, jump to
The Get Noticed! Theme uses a font for the Share Bar icons (“gntsocial”). You can override the default font using some custom CSS. For example, let’s say you wanted to use the FontAwesome.io icon set instead. Just a heads up,
An article recently posted on Medium explained how easy it was to hack an Amazon Dash Button to track Baby Data. Pretty neat idea… but the example given required a laptop to constantly be running a python network sniffer. If the laptop
As of Get Noticed 1.5.0, you can add custom font stacks into the Theme Customizer. Here are some simple instructions for adding Google Fonts to your site. Go to https://www.google.com/fonts, and pick a few fonts you like. Limit your selection
“Smart Quotes are the bane of my existence” This is mainly because they typically turn into broken characters the second they are added to a database (depending on the encoding). Here’s a quick (frontend) fix to find/replace on paste using
I’m going to deviate from my usual tech-mo-logical-whatcha-who’s-it and talk about something in an entirely realm. COOKIES! Lacy Rollups (sometimes called Almond Lacy Wafers) are, hands down, one of the most difficult and frustrating cookies to make. They also are
Get Noticed is the theme that Michael Hyatt uses on his WordPress site. About 3 months ago the theme became available for purchase. Setting up the Get Noticed theme for the first time can be a bit tricky. There are