Over this last Saturday and Sunday, I finally sat down and migrated my old, static HTML website to Jekyll format. Jekyll is a static website generator based in Ruby. hxrsmurf.github.io/hxrsmurf.info I opted to do Data Files instead of Collections. I

I just migrated back to a DigitalOcean $5 droplet for some of  my websites. I wanted to do this because my homelab has minimal upload speed. I have a "cdn" and cache on the local server. I store the files in BackBlaze. Install Updates

I had this website in a traditional WordPress website  (MySQL and Debian). I’ve been learning more about Amazon Web Services  products. I have seen a lot of starter blogs/tutorials on doing a static  website. I learned a little about Lambda and NodeJS.

I take a lot of photos with my phone. About every month I  back them up to my computer and sort them into folders. Even though the  photos most contain my pets, I have other photos like of my motorcycle,  receipts, funny Reddit posts

CNET recently reported that 1.1 million RAM trucks may  have their tailgates unexpectedly open. The tailgates with power-locking  functionality has a latch that may malfunction.The recall excludes  manual tailgates and eight-food bed trucks. 2015 - 2017 RAM 1500, 2500, and 3500Source

As many are aware, there were a few CPU vulnerabilities  codenamed Spectre and Meltdown. While the Meltdown vulnerability targets  INTEL CPUs, the Spectre vulnerability affects many CPUs (AMD, INTEL,  ARM, etc.). The first article explains these vulnerabilities very well. An  overview of these vulnerabilities

After the recent release of the secure Apple FaceID,  which uses facial recognition and other advanced tools, a security  research firm out of Vietnam named Bkav, claims to have bypassed the  FaceID. They are using 3D printed masks which at at this time is

Pricing subject to change and is not final in any way.  Please go to the respective vendor for up-to-date pricing. The article  is my opinion. With that said, read below for the numbers and below that a short article on how I came about

MethodMy method for collecting this data is  downloading Verizon's bill. One can see their text message usage from  this. If I were better at coding, I would try to write an application  that extracted the text message data (date time, number, person,  content). But,

To those that use qnap NAS storage there is a known  silent data corruption if you use RAID 5 or RAID 6. If your NAS is NOT  listed in the qnap article below, your NAS is affected! You will need to install a new

I have been messing around with Google Compute Engine lately. I have a  WordPress website (this one actually) that is now "highly available." I am still new at this, so be gentle. Here is the startup script in Google Docs format and below is

I recently had a ticket come in for another customer that  had a load balanced setup between three hosts: host1, host2, and host3.  Each host uses a server-side script to send e-mail via an external mail  server. While troubleshooting, we noticed host1 and host3

I know old money and new money are usually related  between real estate, banking, and energy. For this article, I will clump  all of those together as “old money” and consider technology companies  as “new money.” In yesterday’s world money was known to

An old friend was preparing for his first interview out  of college. I wrote a few paragraphs from my experiences and turned them  into a bullet point list. Please keep in mind your mileage may vary & each interview/company is different. Anyhow, here

Introduction This is my experience  learning to create a budget and understanding my finances. Please note I  am no writer nor financial adviser. I’d like to thank a few Medium  posts (can’t list them, there have been a lot) as well as