Setting up API Gateway Endpoint showing User IP
If you are looking to get started in serverless, a common endpoint that I like to add is /ip that returns the requester’s wan address. It’s helpful when creating firewall rules and I see it like a hello world app that has some practical uses. In AWS API Gateway, I quickly ran into issues getting this to work and finally [...]
Mounting USB exfat drive on Ubuntu
If you run ubuntu in command line, it doesn't auto mount usb devices like when you have the GUI up. Here is how I handle removable drives that transition between Mac, Linux and Window computers.
Webcon 2021 – Web Performance Workshop Summary
On April 7, 2021 I presented a workshop with a coworker Jason Rambeck (Pixo) about Web Performance https://webcon.illinois.edu/sessions/performance-testing/ https://webcon-performance.pixotech.com Summary Desktop internet speeds are rapidly increasing, and the time to load a page is slowly decreasing around 5 seconds Mobile internet [...]
Jenkins SSH Errors and How to Fix Them
Dealing with Jenkin’s SSH issues is definitely not enjoyable to troubleshoot. It’s a curse of Jenkins plugin architecture, connecting with SSH requires multiple SSH plugins to work together and to Jenkins, it just reports an error somewhere down in the plugin layer. The good news, is once you get through this issue, [...]
Setting Ubuntu SSH/CLI Prompt to have a user friendly server name
This is something I change on all new servers I setup, by default a lot of servers use their hostname as its IP, and if you are on a local static network, that might be meaningful to you. But if you get random IPs from cloud hosting like AWS, it isn’t too helpful. When I have multiple SSH terminals open, I want to make it clear [...]
Vizio XRT136 IR Remote Codes
Vizio Remote XRT136 used on most Vizio Smart TVs. UserCode: 04FB Not that the codes are mirrors 0x08, then inverted, 0xF7 thus added are 0xFF Power : 0x08F7 = 8 Volume Up : 0x02FD = 2Volume Down : 0x03FC = 3 Mute : 0x09F6 = 9 Home : 0x2DD2 = 45Exit : 0x39B6 = 57Info : 0x1B34 = 27Back : 0x4AB5 = 74Menu : 0x4FB0 = 79Pic : 0x6798 = [...]