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I’ll make a larger announcement once it’s out, but wanted to start small pre-launch. I just started building 8020news.com, where you can get 80% of the news content in 20% of the time. Prototype is almost fully automated and should be live in beta by early next week. 80–20 News uses artificial intelligence to bring you the critical news content in 20% of the space. We’re here to help you stay informed, save time, and dig deeper into the topics you care about.

All of a sudden my Macbook (12", 2017) stopped being able to read flash drives (through a dongle since it only has USB-C). So I followed various directions on how to restart and reset the port, reset nvram, etc. None of that worked and after one restart it wouldn’t even…

Algo VPN from https://github.com/trailofbits/algo is an easy to configure VPN to access your AWS VPC. After configuring it, I ran into an issue in strongswan — I wasn’t able to access my private resources by URI but was able to access them by IP address (I typically use telnet to…

Since SES (Simple Email Service) is only available in a few regions (such as us-east-1) to handle bounces/complaints you might need to subscribe a lambda in one region to an SNS queue in another. This requires a workaround in the serverless framework (apparently due to it being a little funny…

Protect your single region API gateway using AWS WAF. You can do it from scratch and it will work fine, but what if you’re lazy!? AWS describes how to do it here, Use AWS WAF to Protect Your Amazon API Gateway API from Common Web Exploits, but firewalls aren’t my…

I’m still relatively new to AWS and networking so this probably took much longer than it should have, but I want to document what I went through for when I forget — I mean… in case anyone finds themselves needing to do this! I wanted a custom domain to point…

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