Must Haves for the IT Professionals
Over the years I've used some really cool devices and services and I find these all to be very useful tools that I personally must own.
DeepCool
So, I was a hacker party once and my friend was like, "You have...
The Greatest Tool Ever: Beyond Compare
https://www.scootersoftware.com/
If you've never used this tool, prepare to have your life changed. Seriously! This tool makes the incredibly complex and tedious task of comparing two files or two directories of files EASY! No sarcasm here but this tool is beyond awesome. It also...
Lessons Learned from Web Hosting Disaster Recovery
I host websites for friends and family and I am responsible for about 15 websites. In an unfortunate event the web host I was using out of Raleigh, NC "crashed". Actually, I don't know what happened but their entire reseller accounts server was blown away and took...
Force TLS in .NET
Versions before ASP.NET 4.7 default to making outbound connections using TLS 1.0. This is a real problem for security for many reasons. It's now been deprecated with many CVEs. Some of these vulnerabilities make TLS 1.0 vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. A lot of APIs will not accept incoming requests from...
TypeScript Experimental Decorator Error in Visual Studio/Code
I ran into this issue in Visual Studio 2019 while working on a .NET Core/Angular 8 project. It seems like every new component I created displayed an error or a warning for experimental decorators. After doing a bunch of research this issue seems more prominent...
Upgrading Firmware on a Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite with SSH
The Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite provides the ability to create a virtual LAN (vLAN) for $129 dollars. This is a quality VPN solution that was highly recommend from someone who owns a data center. Seriously... well worth the money.
Upgrading my router from...
Gutenberg Plugin: Terminal Display
Currently building a Gutenberg plugin to display Parrot OS terminal output.
Github: https://github.com/mrjamiebowman/Gutenberg-Terminal-Display
Parrot Security OS
Parrot Security OS
┌───└──╼ $ nmap -sV 127.0.0.1(Gutenberg Terminal Display)
Running Terraform in Docker Locally
Here are some quick tips on how to run Terraform locally in Docker.
To get started pull the Docker image of Terraform. This image is built on the golang/alpine image.
Running a Script
Punycode? What-in-the-á?
I recently learned about Punycode when I was trying to forward an English character domain name to a Spanish character domain name and it failed in GoDaddy.
Problem
I wanted to forward SanchezHandyman.com to SánchezHandyman.com
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