I'm a big advocate for YubiKeys - I think they're fantastic bits of hardware, but they're also quite poorly understood and even people who do use them often don't use the full set of features that these keys are capable of. I'm hoping to write a few posts about things you can do with YubiKeys, … Continue reading Using YubiKeys for TOTP 2FA
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I recently passed the 2019 version of the AWS Security Specialty exam, which is one of their deep-dive technical certs entirely focused around building and running secure systems on AWS, including things like DDoS resiliency and encryption. I've used a lot of different resources for this so I thought I'd bring together a list of … Continue reading AWS Security Specialty Exam Prep
Application Load Balancers are an incredibly useful component to use as a building block on AWS - they can provide not just load balancing, but also allow you to do super simple TLS termination (where you decrypt HTTPS traffic on the load balancer, reducing the load on your servers) or put a WAF (Web Application … Continue reading Using AWS Application Load Balancers With Static IPs
Whilst working with Amazon's object storage S3 service recently, it occurred to me that there were a lot of different options for encrypting objects in your buckets, and that people new to the service or AWS might find it difficult to understand the differences between them or know which one to use. There are two … Continue reading Understanding AWS S3 Encryption
I've spoken to a few people working in tech recently who aren't entirely sure how this whole "virtualisation" thing works and don't know that much about it, so I've decided to write an introduction to it that hopefully contains enough info to give someone new to the field a good grounding in the basics. What … Continue reading A Beginner’s Guide To Virtualisation
Last week, I headed down to London for the 2018 AWS Summit. AWS Summits are free events that Amazon run to try and educate people about their cloud, and the benefits of running your workloads on it. Hosted at the ExCeL in the Docklands, I believe the London summit is the largest in the EU … Continue reading AWS Summit London 2018
Lots of people don't seem to fully understand Object Oriented programming, so I decided to write this series where I would do my best to explain it in a simple fashion that's suitable for both programming beginners and people who are just getting started with Object Oriented (OO) programming. I'll assume for these posts that you can … Continue reading Object Oriented Programming: Getting Started
Whilst Chromebooks are great as the majority of people’s casual usage machines, sometimes you might need to do work that needs a proper desktop program. One example of this is Visual Studio, and I decided to see if I could find a way to use this on my Chromebook. Obviously, you can’t just install it, … Continue reading Using Windows Programs on a Chromebook
I wrote my original Series 3 Chromebook review after just over a week of casual usage. Now, after nearly 6 months, I’m going to go back to it and follow up on my original points. Hardware I’ve now used the Chromebook every day since the beginning of January, and it turns out it’s a lot … Continue reading Samsung Series 3 Chromebook Follow-up Review
When you buy an Android smartphone, you usually don’t have much of a clue as to when or if it will receive software updates. Sometimes this isn’t a big concern for an end user, but to others it is important that they’re running the latest software on their device. For Android users, this is where … Continue reading How to speed up an old Android phone
