Posted in 2020

Stringer Self Hosted RSS Reader

My setup is using the docker compose file and a local build of the docker image (since docker hub image is years old). Here is a dark theme (solarized) for the CSS. Just paste this over your stringer/app/assets/stylesheets/application.css file. I did not spend much time on it but it looks good enough for my taste.

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The Perfect Neapolitan Pizza

In Italy a society; Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana makes the rules when it comes to every aspect of the Naples pizza and they describe the rules of a Naples pizza in extreme technical detail here this is a great read if you are a pizza nerd and it details the exact procedure to cook a perfect Napoletana pizza.

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Peri Peri Chicken

Chicken Thigh (With or without skin / bone - to taste)

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AWS Sagegemaker Jupyter Notebook

I wanted to upgrade the version of pandas that comes with AWS Sagemaker Notebook to > 1.1 because this simplify handling of group by with null or NaN values.

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The Best Garlic Chilli Prawns 🌢🍀

These are mediterranean style garlic chilli prawns, normally I double the garlic and chilli for this recipe and the oil is so good to dip with warm fresh crusty bread.

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OSS logstash with AWS Opendistro for Elasticsearch

To get logstash talking to the Open Distro Elasticsearch the first thing that should be understood is that open distro only works with the OSS (Apache 2.0 Licensed) edition of the Elastic tools and not the Elastic licensed edition (Xpack).

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Intercept HTTP/HTTPS TLS traffic

Use open source project mitmproxy and have visibility into what iOS apps (or anything else) are sending back to their mother ship.

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Moved blog to alabaster with Sphinx

Mostly notes to self on how to deploy and architecture / setup. Inspired by https://github.com/vincentbernat/vincent.bernat.ch

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SES Email client for S3

You can conveniently browse the SES mail in S3 using this tool

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Logstash ingestion of AWS billing customer usage reports

To get the CUR reports into elastic search:

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Kubernetes tips

The problem is solved by removing the leading slash after the podname colon separator:

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Enterprise tips for AWS Workspaces and AWS Managed AD

::: note ::: title Note :::

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IAM resource based policy implicit allow

Resource policy are typically used to allow cross account access for resources where it is supported some of which include:

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AWS Boto KeyError endpoint_resolver in session.py when using multithreading

When using multithreading in Python with AWS boto to get a session I was randomly hitting this error:

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Route 53 Associate multiple private hosted zones with same name

Can I associate multiple private hosted zones with the same domain name to the same VPC?

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CloudTrail and VPC Endpoints Logging

Today I learnt that AWS CloudTrail does not log requests that are denied by VPC endpoint policy. The reason for this is that it would allow an attacker to exfiltrate data via CloudTrail.

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