Posts on Noah Bailey

I don’t like to cover “current events” very much, but the American government just revealed a truly bewildering policy effectively banning import of new consumer router models. This is ridiculous for many reasons, but if this does indeed come to pass it may be beneficial to learn how to “homebrew” a router. Fortunately, you can make a router out of basically anything resembling a computer. I’ve used a linux powered mini-pc as my own router for about six years, and have posted a few times befo...

A common usage of CI/CD tools today is to build and deploy a static website to a CDN. This has many advantages over the old way (like running Wordpress), such as security, cost, and flexibility. Developers love the ability to use any crazy JavaScript library they want on the client side, Sysadmins love not having another PHP server to feed and water, and accountants love the bill! However, one common issue has been the common practice of hard-coding AWS API keys into CI servers, or worse, com...