This year I was tipped off to the SANS Holiday Hack Challenge and holy smokes this is awesome. I just started earlier today and I've already made my way through a handful of objectives and learned a few new things. I highly recommend checking it out if you're interested in …
Articles in the Updates category
Mission Failed
In December of last year, I decided to commit to publishing a blog post once per month for all of 2019. Looking back through the archives for my blog, you can see that I published at least once per month all the way up until September, but no posts went …
Reflecting on my Career
This month, I've started a new position as an Android Engineer at American Express, and I found myself reflecting on how I got here. I have no college degree, and didn't participate in any coding bootcamp or anything like that, so I figured I'd share my story in case it's …
Recent Downtime
A week ago I had a bit of downtime, because I decided to switch hosts. Previously, I was using DigitalOcean, with a droplet running Ubuntu 14.04. I paid \$10 a month for a 30GB SSD, 1 CPU core, and 1GB of RAM. This used to be alright for me …
SSL Encryption from Let's Encrypt
If you've been following my site at all, you'll now notice that it, along with the apps hosted on it, are encrypted via SSL! I decided to take the time to set it up because I take security and privacy very seriously. Even though I'm the primary user on my …
My Home Cloud Server/Router with a Raspberry Pi
My apartment doesn't have wireless internet, but I do have ethernet access. In the past, I've used my laptop to create a wireless access point so that I could use my phone and tablet without worrying about running through my cellular data, but that was inconvenient because it basically turned …
Workout Generator Updates
After much consideration, I've decided to take the workout generator I've been developing open source. I've always viewed it as a learning experience for myself, and a canvas of sorts on which I could develop my skills. With it being open source, I hope that other interested developers will join …