I just started using WebFlow to level up my website building game. I am really loving it! It seems to generate clean HTML / CSS and is fairly easy to use if you know HTML and CSS. I recommend doing the WebFlow 101 YouTube tutorial to get up and running quickly.
Automating secure access to AWS services
Every so often I need to open up access to an AWS service to my home IP address. Unfortunately, my IP address is liable to change when my broadband router reconnects, so I wanted to automate the process of adding my local IP to the AWS security group. I created the following shell script to do this. It will retrieve your externally presenting IP address, and then add a new rule to the security group opening inbound connections to the specified port range. If the script has been run previously, the script will first delete the previously added rule.
Is AI affecting the programmer job market?
A couple of weeks ago I went to the Sydney Developers Meetup. I wanted to meet up with other programmers in Sydney and get more involved with the Sydney technology scene. Having been in the UK for so long, I feel like I am really out of touch with what is going on in Australia.
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So much time has gone by
I can’t believe that so much time has gone by since I last updated my blog. It feels like the blink of an eye, but I can see that it was last updated in November 2022. In that time I feel like the world has changed. OpenAI launched ChatGPT at the end of November 2022. Nowadays, I can’t imagine coding or problem-solving without the help of an A.I. chatbot. It seems like just as significant a development as the advent of the internet or the mobile phone.
Upgrading Mastodon from 3.5.3 to 4.0.2
You can follow the 3.5.3 to 4.0.0 instructions which are here. Just remember to do git checkout v4.0.2
instead of git checkout v4.0.0
.
bash Snapshot File alias
I just created this useful bash function for snapshotting a timestamped version of a file:
A lot has happened
A lot has happened since I last updated this blog. In January 2020, Helen and I decided to move back to Sydney. Over a year later, we finally managed to fly back to Australia.
Vaccine - first dose received!
This morning I received the first dose of the Astra Zenica Covid vaccine. The process was super efficient. It was at the Business Design Centre in Angel, which is a lovely building.
When Assistant doesn't work in Xcode
I often have a problem in Xcode when I am working in the Storyboard, when I click on “Assistant” to open the related ViewController to add an Outlet or Action, and Assistant can’t find the related file.
Installing certbot on Amazon Linux 2 AMI
The steps to install certbot
on an Amazon Linux 2 EC2 instance are: