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Thoughts on software development, technology trends, and lessons learned from building things.

2025

I Got Tired of Cleaning My Mac's Temp Folder, So I Automated It

July 1, 2025

How to Create & Manage OpenSearch Snapshots using AWS S3

June 23, 2025

aws opensearch tutorial

Using Makefiles as a Universal Development Interface

June 20, 2025

makefile tutorial

Managing OpenSearch Index Lifecycle with ISM Policies

June 19, 2025

opensearch tutorial

Checking if Makefile Targets Exist: Two Approaches Compared

June 15, 2025

makefile tutorial

2019

Terraform Multi-Region Deployment using Modules

April 25, 2019

terraform tutorial

Let’s Encrypt Unauthorized Error when Renewing Certificate

February 23, 2019

2018

Deploy Terraform & Serverless Framework in Perfect Harmony

December 10, 2018

terraform serverless tutorial

Terraform Dynamic Environment Variables through Workspaces and Local Values

December 5, 2018

terraform tutorial

AWS DynamoDB Auto-Scaling vs On-Demand Scaling

December 3, 2018

2016

Create AWS CloudWatch Alarm on the Number of Running EC2 Instances

October 16, 2016

2015

Laravel 4.2 updated_at Table Field Always Updating

September 18, 2015

AWS CLI Ansible Playbook on Ubuntu 14.04

July 30, 2015

aws linux servers

GoAccess Automated Reports - Last 30+ Days via Cron

May 30, 2015

EC2 High CPU Wait and the EBS Provisioned IOPS Difference

April 6, 2015

aws ec2 servers

2014

Heka JSON Decoder using a SandboxDecoder and Lua

September 3, 2014

Drop MySQL Primary Key with Foreign Key using Laravel 4 (error 1025 & 105)

February 21, 2014

database laravel php

Laravel 4 Unable to Read Package Configuration File

January 11, 2014

2013

How to create a temporary storage directory that automatically deletes contents after X days (Mac)

November 14, 2013

PHP session_start() failed no space left on device (Plesk plesk-php-cleanuper)

October 16, 2013