I’m Moving to Austin Texas!
After major life changes, I’m moving down to Austin, Texas. I’ll be there ~August 1st, 2026. That’s the post.
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How to Restore a Backblaze Snapshot Regardless of Size Without Needing a Hard Drive Shipped
No longer does one need a hard drive shipped from Backblaze to download your snapshot. Ignore the backblaze download utility and instead use the command line tool. With a few technical steps, you can download a snapshot, no matter the …
.NET 8 and Trimming
In .NET 6, trimming worked pretty well, even if your assemblies weren’t annotated properly. In .NET 7 and now with .NET 8, things have changed, and trying to trim with the same project files and settings will cause everything to …
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 …