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Adding an API Key to your AWS SAM Deploy

Posted on July 6, 2020 by David Kryzaniak

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

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Posted in AWS | Tagged API Gateway, lambda, nodejs, SAM, Serverless | Leave a reply

Serverless HTML to PDF API with AWS Lambda

Posted on June 29, 2020 by David Kryzaniak

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

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Posted in API, AWS | Tagged AWS SAM, docker, lambda, nodejs | Leave a reply

cPanel/WHM Cron: Delete Backups Older Than 30 Days

Posted on March 20, 2017 by David Kryzaniak

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”

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Posted in Scripts | Tagged Backups, Bash, cPanel, Cron, WHM | Leave a reply

Docker on Amazon Lightsail (Quick Install)

Posted on December 2, 2016 by David Kryzaniak

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

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Posted in AWS, Docker | Tagged docker, lightsail | 4 Replies

Get Noticed! Theme: Changing the Share Bar Icons

Posted on September 22, 2016 by David Kryzaniak

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,

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Posted in WordPress | Leave a reply

Hacking Amazon Dash Buttons

Posted on August 23, 2015 by David Kryzaniak

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

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Posted in Code Snippets, Hardware Hacks | 9 Replies

Using Google Fonts with the Get Noticed! Theme

Posted on May 29, 2015 by David Kryzaniak

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

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Posted in WordPress | 3 Replies

Script: Intercepting Paste with jQuery

Posted on February 21, 2015 by David Kryzaniak

“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

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Posted in Code Snippets | 1 Reply

The World’s Most Complicated Cookie: (Gluten Free) Almond Lacy Rollups

Posted on January 1, 2015 by David Kryzaniak

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

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Setting up the Get Noticed WordPress Theme

Posted on August 31, 2014 by David Kryzaniak

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

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Posted in WordPress | Tagged Get Noticed, setup, theme | 6 Replies

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