tech - Grant Winney

Jan 05, 2020

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How to deploy your own private RequestBin instance in under 5 minutes

If you need to consume a webhook from another service, or verify the payload being sent from your own REST API endpoint, RequestBin can help. It intercepts and displays the contents of any call made to it. Here's how to deploy your own private instance in just a few minutes....

api web browser tech carousel

Dec 30, 2019

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Why are websites requesting access to motion sensors... on my desktop?

I was checking the status of a FedEx order when Brave warned me that "this site has been blocked from accessing your motion sensors". I'm struggling to understand why a website would need that access. Do I get a different experience if I drop my device? Tip my monitor over? Spin the mouse around?...

ansible automation tech digitalocean

Dec 27, 2019

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3 Ansible playbooks, 2 DO droplets, and a website... in a pear tree 🎄

Running through another of Erika's Ansible posts with example playbooks, creating a few pointless ones of my own, and discovering just how easy it is to deploy a website running on Apache!...

tech ethics ux design

Dec 23, 2019

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Being aware of how sites reel you in... and hook you 🎣

I think most of us have a general sense of uneasiness with the firm grasp the most popular sites on the Internet have on us, but it's no mistake in design that they're popular... or that the cause of uneasiness is also the salve....

ansible automation tech digitalocean

Dec 18, 2019

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Hands-on Ansible, using two DigitalOcean Ubuntu droplets

Today I'm wrapping my head around a build tool called Ansible, used for deploying machines in a scriptable, repeatable manner. Follow along as I step through an excellent tutorial from DigitalOcean, applying what I learn to a couple DO Ubuntu VMs... the $5/mo ones - nothing fancy needed!...

security iot ethics tech

Dec 17, 2019

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Do we really need cameras inside our homes? (Spoiler: NO!)

Some Ring cameras got hacked. Just another day in tech. My question is, WHY would you willingly put IOT cameras in your home? In your kids bedrooms??...

google privacy mailbox.org tech

Dec 09, 2019

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Replacing Gmail with Mailbox.org (and calendar and docs too!)

Google provides some amazing tools, but at what cost to privacy? One of the biggest blockers in eliminating them has been finding a reliable and affordable replacement for email (and ideally, calendar, documents, tasks, etc too). Well I may have finally found it, in Mailbox.org....

docker tech

Nov 27, 2019

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Docker - Peeling back the layers

A few weeks ago, I took my first real look at Docker, and learned just enough to write a bad analogy. Now I'm taking a closer look at the anatomy of a docker image, which I've always heard consists of layers, but I've never quite understood what that meant. Time to find out!...

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