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Studying and passing the AWS DevOps Engineer Pro exam

Tips on studying for and passing the AWS DevOps Engineer Professional exam.

Tip - secure your online accounts

Tip 1 from 12 tips of Christmas. Suggestions on good password practices, password managers, security-challenge questions and setting up 2-stage verification

Tip - back up your data

Tip 2 from 12 tips of Christmas. Suggestions on backing up your data - locally, automatically, or local+cloud

Tip - secure your home Wi-Fi - part 1

Tip 3 from 12 tips of Christmas

Tip - secure your home Wi-Fi - part 2

Tip 4 from 12 tips of Christmas

Tip - check if your account was in a data breach

Tip 5 from 12 tips of Christmas

Tip - check you're not using one of these passwords

Tip 6 from 12 tips of Christmas

Tip - use security posters and leaflets

Tip 7 from 12 tips of Christmas

Tip - use HTTPS everywhere

Tip 8 from 12 tips of Christmas

Tip - use administrator privileges sparingly

Tip 9 from 12 tips of Christmas

Tip - keep an eye on program updates

Tip 10 from 12 tips of Christmas

Tip - apply updates for computer chip problems

Tip 11 from 12 tips of Christmas

Tip - report phishing, vishing and smishing

Tip 12 from 12 tips of Christmas

Writing with Markdown and Git

Choosing writing tools, and landing on Markdown and Git

Preparing year-end accounts with FreeAgent

A brain dump of some steps for small business owners, preparing year-end accounts with FreeAgent.

Documenting systems without drawing boxes

Diagrams as Code

AGT welcomes our deepfake overlords

Running into the warm embrace of AI

On being a generalist

In praise of having some Range

Monitoring websites with StatusCake and smoke.sh

Gently improving a venerable shell script

Asking for specific career advice

Asking a stranger for advice on LinkedIn is surprisingly effective

Visiting Bletchley Park

Back to the home of encryption

Troubleshooting SSL certificates

Implementing ECB block cipher in PowerShell

(Re-)learning about block ciphers

Implementing ECB block cipher in PowerShell

Smart heating with Drayton Wiser

Notes on installing a Drayton Wiser Smart Heating system

How hard can it be to write an educational course?

Thoughts on writing and launching an online video course - 1

Do I need a further cloud certification?

Advice on getting further cloud certifications versus building examples which show your work

Using linux basename to get an Azure resource name

Use the basename utility for more than just extracting a filename from a path - extract the Azure resource name from a resource ID

How I rebuilt this site

How I migrated from version 1 to version 4 of the Eleventy Excellent template

Discovering Glitch remix

Discovering Glitch - a free online tool for building web apps directly from your web browser.

Learning AI - 1

Starting the book AI Engineering by Chip Huyen

NATO phonetic alphabet

Discovering the official spellings of the phonetic alphabet

Accepting ZSH AutoSuggestions

Adjusting the bindkey to more easily accept the ZSH AutoSuggestions in my terminal