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AWS and Pulumi with Go Getting Started
Pulumi is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool similar to Terraform, except that, rather than defining resources in a DSL, you defined them in a supported programming language. This means you have access to all of your chosen languages features as well as any supporting libraries...continue reading
Fedora 36 Gnome 42 Theme
I recently started using Fedora 36 which uses Gnome 42. It is really nice out of the box, but I wanted to change the theme. Gnome 42 requires the themes to be installed in a different location to prevous versions of Gnome. In this post I will show you where to install Gnome 42 themes....continue reading
AWS Solutions Architect Associate
One of my goals for 2022 was to obtain some cloud based certifications that align more with my current career goals. I started out with the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam (SAA-C02). TL/DR, I passed! In this post, I will cover the process and tools that I used to obtain the...continue reading
Cloud Notes: AWS IAM
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) provides access control for AWS users/applications to the various AWS services and resources. Features Available only in the Global region Globally resiliant service Always free service Account Types There are a number of account...continue reading
Rust Query Pokemon API
This year I have been learning Rust, and I recently came across an excellent by Tyler Christiansen Dependencies Add the following libraries to the dependencies section of the cargo.toml file. tokio = futures = "0.3.21" serde = "1.0.136" serde_derive = "1.0.136" serde_json =...continue reading
Rust Query Pokemon API
This year I have been learning Rust, and I recently came across an excellent by Tyler Christiansen Dependencies Add the following libraries to the dependencies section of the cargo.toml file. tokio = futures = "0.3.21" serde = "1.0.136" serde_derive = "1.0.136" serde_json =...continue reading
Rust Reading and Writing JSON
In this post, I will show you how to read and write JSON data with Rust using the wonderful serde library. Software The following software was used in this post. Rust - 1.59.0 serde - 1.0.136 serde_derive - 1.0.136 serde_json - 1.0.79 Dependencies Add the following libraries to the...continue reading
Kali Linux Cloud Init Image
Kali is a purpose build Linux distribution for penetration testing. They have many pre-built deployment options, but unfortunately a cloud-init compatible image is not one of them. In this post, I will show you how to convert a pre-build VMware image into a cloud-init compatible image...continue reading
Moonlander Keyboard
For the past year and a half or so, I have been using the Keycaps I didn't like they keycaps that shipped with the board (although they were fine). I swapped them out for these retro gaming style XDA profile keycaps. XDA profile keys are all the same height and shape. Key Switches I...continue reading
Infosec Useful Resources
This post is a collection of links to resources I have found useful on infosec related topics. CVE {{ link.href( path="https://www.exploit-db.com/", description="Exploit DB" ) }} - CVE compliant archive of public exploits and corresponding vulnerable software,...continue reading
Infosec Useful Resources
This post is a collection of links to resources I have found useful on infosec related topics. CVE {{ link.href( path="https://www.exploit-db.com/", description="Exploit DB" ) }} - CVE compliant archive of public exploits and corresponding vulnerable software,...continue reading
ExtraHop Discover Appliance GCP Deployment With Terraform
I was recently working with a customer to deploy an ExtraHop Cloud Sensor (EDA) in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with Terraform. Deploying in the cloud is not as straight forward as deploying in other virtualized environments such as VMware. Thankfully, Terraform helps us complete this...continue reading
Terraform Google Cloud Platform Setup
In this post I will show you how to setup Terraform to connect to your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) tenancy to manage your GCP infrastructure as code. Software The following software was used in this post. Terraform - 1.1.7 Ubuntu - 2004 gcloud - 378.0.0 Pre-Flight Check Google...continue reading
VSCode Settings Per-Language
This is just a quick post to share something that I found which is a really nice quality of life tip for VSCode. In this post, I will show you how to configure per-language settings in VSCode so that for example in Python files you can set to indent with 4 spaces and in Javascript you...continue reading
NeoVim Install and Configure
Call me crazy, but I decided to have a look at using in this the year of our lord and saviour 2022. NeoVim is a minimal fork of VIM which supports LUA as a scripting engine. In this post, I will show you how to install and configure NeoVim with some fancy plugins and a smattering of TMUX...continue reading
ExtraHop Bridge Triggers
Recently, I was working with a customer that wanted to extract the TCP SYN unanswered in/out metric captured by Extrahop for a group of web servers and send that data to Splunk so their application team could view the data in a Splunk dashboard. It was an interesting problem to solve...continue reading
Rust Notes: Closures
A closure in Rust is an anonymous function. An anonymous function is a function without a name. A closure is defined with parameters between two pipes and expressions between curly braces || By default, closures borrow a reference to the parameters that are passed into it. ...continue reading
Rust Notes: Closures
A closure in Rust is an anonymous function. An anonymous function is a function without a name. A closure is defined with parameters between two pipes and expressions between curly braces || Unlike functions, closures CAN capture variables from their enclosing scope. By...continue reading
Rust Useful Links
Prelude This post is nothing more than a collection of links to resources that I have found usefull for the Rust programming language. Documentation Coding Style Repositories continue reading
Rust Useful Links
Prelude This post is acollection of links to resources that I have found useful for the Rust programming language. Blogs Books Coding Style Documentation Repositories Video Tutorials YouTube drop(_) Learn Rust, it's fn. continue reading