Back in July I started dabbling in writing. Fast-forward to today and I’ve written 31 chapters of a book called “Nightwind: Fury.” It’s pretty raw, so I’m taking a lot of time to edit. Writing has allowed me to put …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Jeff Johnson (jjxtra) and I've been doing software development since age 7. I make Mobile apps, Unity plugins and server software.