Tagged "AWS"

I've been working on a few IoT projects recently, and while prototyping, I need a simple but flexible data store. I just want to push data to an API and query and visualize it later on. There are m...
When using AWS IoT Core, most tutorials will tell you to include device certificates in your firmware. While that does work, it means you won't be able to run over-the-air updates. In this post, I'...
My DIY home energy monitor has been running for almost a year now. It's been recording my electricity consumption every second and everything is neatly archived in my AWS account. Still, though, th...
Lately, I’ve been building some IoT devices and every time I used the ESP32 micro-controller. It's a powerful micro-controller and has built-in WiFi, which means I can connect it to AWS IoT to send...
One day I was wondering: how much electricity is flowing through my apartment right now? Looking online I found various sensor devices like Smappee and Sense, but those are relatively expensive and...
About a week ago I found out that Troy Hunt had published a new course about modern web security. I decided to check out the introduction video and that made me realize that I don't have a Content ...
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When my girlfriend and I moved in together, we decided to sit down each Saturday and plan ahead what we we're going to eat the following week. We used to do this with pen and paper but as a few wee...
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Last week Atlassian announced a new feature for BitBucket called Pipelines. It’s a continuous integration service that is integrated into BitBucket and is powered by Docker. I immediately signed up...
When I was in high school (2011) I wrote a simple anagram solver in PHP. It used a MySQL backend to store multiple dictionaries and was pretty fast. Fast forward to 2015: the anagram solver is stil...
I've been wanting to add HTTPS support to my website for quite some time and never got around it. Enabling SSL has several benefits such as increased privacy and a slight boost in search ranking. I...
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Uploading big files to Amazon S3 can be a bit of pain when you're on an unstable network connection. If an error occurs, your transfer will be cancelled and you can start the upload process all ove...
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I have a small RamNode VPS that I use as a VPN server. I also host my personal wiki on there and use it to document interesting things that I would otherwise forget. The information in my wiki is p...
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A little over a year ago I moved away from Wordpress and started using Jekyll for this blog. I also started using Amazon S3 as a cheap but very reliable hosting provider. The past weeks I've looked...
A few weeks ago I started using Jekyll for my blog and moved it to Amazon S3. I also configured AWStats to analyze Amazon S3 access logs. Yet, I never explained how I moved to S3, how I automatical...
A few weeks ago I switched from Wordpress to Jekyll. I also started using Amazon S3 to host my blog. I've been pretty happy with my new blog and the performance of S3. There's just one thing missin...
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