Announcing IPThreat
I am pleased to announce that ipthreat.net is live and ready for use. My goal is to have ipthreat be Earth’s repository for bad ip addresses. The data is licensed under a creative commons by attribution license – that means …
Azure Functions Failure
As some of you know, ipban pro had an outage on 2022-08-04. This lasted a good 6 hours. I have been using Azure Functions as a proxy layer for all of ipban pro. At a basic level, Azure functions knows …
The State of Cloud File Storage in 2022
Storing terabytes of data in Azure, AWS or Google Cloud can get quite expensive. Per Backblaze, here is a brief breakdown of pricing as of June 2022: Backblaze will not charge for bandwidth for accessing public urls via CDN partners. …
I Quit my Day Job (Again)
It was about 7 1/2 years ago I quit my last day job at Ancestry.com. Now today I have left Jane.com as the vp of engineering due to personal health reasons and misalignment with top company management. I am taking …
IPBan Pro Update – March 2022
Hello humans of Earth, IPBan Pro is beginning to pick up steam. As I optimize the simplicity, performance and feature-set, more and more people and organizations are turning to IPBan Pro to secure their computers. Recently I started receiving cyber …
Happy 2022!
It’s been over a year since the worst of my chronic health issues have flared up with only some relief. I am thankful that I’ve been able to find a way to live life despite the challenges. The perspective that …
Health Update – August 2021
Greetings once again. I spent some time at the Mayo Clinic a few months ago. I came out of there with a diagnosis that fits pretty well with what I am dealing with: – Chronic PPPD – Chronic, sometimes intermittent …
Health Update – May 2021
My health situation has continued to get worse. Brain issues including tinnitus, vertigo, brain zaps, general migraine along with anxiety and depression that comes with that are all a big challenge still. I have started reaching out to specialty clinics …
Appendicitis
So I had an emergency appendectomy in early February and am just starting to recover from it. There were complications with internal bleeding and inflammation that caused significant pain and discomfort. Thankfully my body is slowly absorbing the blood and …
Brain and Inner Ear Battle
Given some recent health challenges I am having, I thought it appropriate to share an update on my personal health as it definitely impacts my ability to operate my business at peak efficiency. Last year (2019) in November I had …
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