Category: Internet
Is Facebook an addiction?
Yesterday morning, on the 28th of February 2019, I quit Facebook. I “permanently” deleted my account, which means that I have to stay off Facebook for the next 30 days,…
What’s our Social Media contract?
For reasons that I don’t really need to get into here, I was “off” Facebook for over a year. When I returned, it was with hesitation and apprehension. I decided…
Don’t let Facebook track you
The debacle with Cambridge Analytica has uncovered some nasty behaviour by Facebook. For many, this doesn’t come as a surprise, although the extend of it perhaps does. It is good…
Continuous broadband speed testing with your Raspberry Pi
Like many other people, I have a couple of Raspberry Pi’s lying around the house. One is dedicated as a music player, but there’s another one that didn’t have a…
The irony of the modern internet
Looking at the state of humanity in regards to its use of the internet, I cannot help but be baffled. It took me a while to understand why I felt…
A lambda invoking a lambda. Locally!
We all know the joke about ‘serverless’, right? “It’s just someone else’s server.” Yes, it is. But what if I told you it’s possible to run your lambdas not even…
Protect your deployment pipeline with MFA
In this post, I’d like to share how you can secure your deployment pipeline using multiple accounts, profiles, and multi-factor authentication (or MFA). I’ll specifically be talking about Amazon Web…
Setting up (permissions for) Elasticsearch Service in AWS
Recently, I’ve moved one of my project from CloudSearch (CS) to Elasticsearch Service (ES), which roughly provides the same service. For me, the rationale to move from CS to ES…
Serverless: a concept and a poorly named framework
In the past 5 months, I’ve been contracting for Bitgenics, Erwin van der Koogh’s startup company based in Melbourne. We’ve built a Front-end Delivery Network called LINC, a hosting platform…