Setting Emacs Theme Based on Ambient Light
I sit next to a window at work. On sunny days it’s easier to see a light editor theme, and when the sky is dark, a dark theme is easier...
Creating a new blog post in Emacs
Now that my blog is based on markdown text files, some new tooling options have opened! entire blog is under source control (done) make targets for common actions (e.g. create...
under construction
I was having some headaches with my existing shared hosting provider, so I decided to move this site to a VPS. I also didn’t want to run a LAMP stack,...
How to set up free SSL on shared-hosting with Let’s Encrypt
I just updated this domain to use HTTPS with Let’s Encrypt as a certificate authority. Presently this site is on a shared-hosting provider and I had to generate a cert...
Assuming an IAM role from an EC2 instance with its own assumed IAM role
In AWS IAM’s authentication infrastructure, it’s possible for one IAM role to assume another. This is useful if, for example, a service application runs as an assumed role on EC2,...