I'm thinking I'm back

So you know how I said I was going to shut this down...well I don't think so anymore. lol If you don't know I try to seperate life a lot. Well as I step my toe back into crypto a bit more I think I'll use this blog to

I'm shutting this down

Hello everyone. Well the title is the TLDR but I wanted to take this space to explain why if that's cool. The sap part I started this blog to track my progress moving into security and then devops. Well I absolutely achieved those goals. I'm not sure what else to

devops

How to Move From Developer to Devops Engineer

I've gotten asked how I made the transition from developer to devops engineer. This is the long form answer.

homelab

Homelab or Something

I talk about my plan to build and document my journey building a homelab.

I'm coming back

Talking about my study plan for the year

tools

Rocketbook & Obsidian

How I use Rocketbook and Obsidian together.

devops

Is the Terraform Cert Worth It?

My thoughts on why or why not to get the Hashicorp Terraform certification.

devops

Setting Up HashiCorp Vault

How to setup Hashicorp vault on a cloud instance and my reflection.

devops

Lens IDE Working With WSL 2

Steps on getting Lens IDE to work with WSL 2.

Intro to Networking Writeup

Just wanted to write a brief intro to these writeups. I'm working on Try Hack Me Boxes and since I want to sit for the CYSA+ this year I want to make sure that I get some practice in writing the steps to finding answers. This is a first of

My New Love of Rust

Ok I'm jumping the gun here, I don't actually know if I love rust but it's making my little dev soul happy. I haven't gotten to use it directly when working with smart contracts but my goal is to get that going soon. Oh wait...let me tell you why

blockchain

My First Smart Contract

I've been reading a lot of blockchain things lately. My end goal is to get into smart contract creation and auditing. I'll admit the first time I thought about this I was just saying stuff. I really had no clue what it ment in 2018. Since then I've kept a

cloud

Moving Ghost CMS Between Servers

Old Server (using AWS) 1. Log into admin site 2. Copy Code Injections 3. Go to Labs 4. Export content 5. Download redirects 6. Download routes.yaml 7. log into server 8. cd /var/www/ghost/content 9. zip -r images.zip images/* 10. exit server 11. move to folder

We back!

3 things of importance here: 1. I finally fixed everything and this site is back up 2. The whole point of this was to track my knowledge as I got into devops or app sec ops...well I finally got into devops 3. I will just start writing about things

devops

HashiCorp Terraform Certification

Why I got the HashiCorp Terraform Certification and how I prepared to pass.

automation

Bot Automation Pt. 1 - Discord Bot

Part 1 in automating launching bots to heroku using terraform.

I Really Have No Clue

Truthfully I have been chilling. I have nothing to really talk about here. Building apps has been fun, planning the risky shit I want to do next....I think this is what it feels like to be right where you should be. What should I do next? I really have

Allergic To Hourly Review

A review of the Allergic To Hourly business coaching program.

Proof of Concepts

If your following me on twitter you have seen that I've built 2 proof of concept (POC) apps in the past week. You might be wondering why I'm doing this so instead of tweeting into the abyss I figured I'd write this post. What is a POC? A proof of

2021 Setup Update

I figured youtubers give desk tours every year so I’ll try to do setup updates every year. We almost half way thru the year but I’m finally getting things together so lets get into it. Macbook Per usual this old thing is sticking around. Lol By winter I

tools

Knowledge Management System (KMS)

What is a Knowledge Management System, why you should use it, and what I'm using.

Android

Material Design Spinner

How to use this material design "spinner"

Life is Moving

This is a random thought blog post so if you want something detailed this aint it. I've been holding off on being vocal about it but I didn't pass my Jenkins certification. I blame myself but I also realize that A Cloud Guru shouldn't be the end all be all

Black in Cyber Winter Conference (BICWC2021)

My reflection on the Black in Cyber Winter Conference.

The Best Thing to Happen in Mobile Development

I'm excited about this one. I'm always complaining about how "people are stupid" but also how "devs could do more to alert users on how their info is used". Recently the Apple has made a change that puts the details about your data front and center. Now before we talk