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Protecting wp-admin from bots

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The most common attack on a wordpress site it the login page. Weak or compromised passwords are u...

Updated 5 months ago by peterd

Connect to S3 from your local Ubuntu file system

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For Mac and Linux you can connect to s3 buckets from your local file navigator using  s3fs https...

Updated 5 months ago by peterd

Using Cloudfront For CDN

Devops

Basic Setup To setup a CDN using Cloudfront you first need to create an S3 bucket and make it pu...

Updated 5 months ago by peterd

NameCheap SSL Certificates

Devops

Namecheap is as the name suggests; a cheap place to get stuff. Their SSL certificates cost 1/5 of...

Updated 5 months ago by peterd

SSH Access with Nautilus

Devops

If using Linux with Nautilus you can connect directly to the server.  1.) create a config file i...

Updated 5 months ago by peterd

Debug PHP with XDebug and VSCode (docker edition)

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If you are using Docker you will want to add this to your Dockerfile (runs when container being c...

Updated 5 months ago by peterd

Create your own “cloud” storage with Syncthing

Devops

I have been using Syncing for years now and had assumed eveyone had at least heard of it. Apparen...

Updated 5 months ago by peterd

Connect to Remote Servers with VSCode

Devops

By far one of the coolest VSCode extensios I’ve used in a whole. This saves me so much time when ...

Updated 5 months ago by peterd

Generally Useful Docker Commands

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Remove all Docker Containers Stop the container(s): cd ~/mydocker-repo-folder; docker-compose ...

Updated 5 months ago by peterd

Automatic AWS EC2 Backups

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If you have a lot of developers working on the same server, there is nothing worse than having to...

Updated 5 months ago by peterd

PHP-FPM Optimization

Devops

Out-of-box php fpm is configured for very low server specs such as a 2 core machine. It needs to ...

Updated 5 months ago by peterd

Install and Configure Memcached

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Memcached is a lightweight alternative to Redis for storing short lived cache which would otherwi...

Updated 5 months ago by peterd

Certbox & NGINX on AWS

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Did you know you can use CertBot and NGINX to have a wildcard certificate? Here’s how to do it wi...

Updated 5 months ago by peterd

Debug Docker Errors

Devops

Seriously have you tried just rebooting your machine? For general container logs you can...

Updated 5 months ago by peterd

Certbox & NGINX on AWS

Devops

Did you know you can use CertBot and NGINX to have a wildcard certificate? Here’s how to do it ...

Updated 5 months ago by peterd

Working with ESP32 WROVER (camera enabled)

ESP32 survival guide

I decided to try an alternative to ESP32 cam boards which are limited in functionality due to all...

Updated 7 months ago by peter drinnan

Latest Travel Photos

Misc

Trinidad Cuba, courtyard in the museum of architecture - march 2024  

Updated 8 months ago by peter drinnan

Simple Surveillance Camera

Off-grid System Monitoring IOT Project

This probably sounds dumb but I wanted to make sure my birds were not starving to death anytime I...

Updated 8 months ago by peter drinnan

Cloudflare for local server

Devops

Use skiff for email.  Copy DNS setting from skiff to cloudflare. See: https://www.youtube.com/...

Updated 9 months ago by peter drinnan

Accessing file systems for linux machines on the local network

Devops

Locate the other machines on your local network: sudo arp-scan --localnet result example: Inte...

Updated 10 months ago by peter drinnan