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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