Victor's Cloud Blog

Snake in the sandbox

Continuing where we left off on my Drop off Form Project you'd be wise to recall that I had a mostly functioning serverless async form where clients could use the webapp to fill out a drop-off slip prior to bringing devices in for repair. The state of it was that

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Just sign at the JS Pad

As part of the company my wifey and I made, we have clients drop off their devices for us to repair. Part of the intake process is to fill out a customer & device info sheet along with a disclaimer statement which they sign and date, and then receive a

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Raspberry Visions

Dateline: 2013 - Santa Fe Springs This was one of my favorite projects and I had to learn a lot to get it working reliably and for a reasonable cost. A new bid RFQ became available for a decent sized Regional Public Transport Organization who were looking for a company

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Migrating a VirtualBoxer

Or how I migrated some Virtualbox machines to KVM/QEMUIn the olden days, I would often set up a server on Virtualbox using a desktop install of my favorite Ubuntu flavor to get it up and running with a GUI interface since they typically worked good out of the box.

Home Lab Confab

I keep getting questions from literally everyone I talk to asking about my home lab set up. My milk man, my Pokemon trainer, random people at Aldis, even my cryogenic planning advisor!Alright, to honor my adoring public let me spill the beans about my High Performance (read: extra low

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Ghost scrubbing with a Python

So remember that fancy Static Generated version of my Ghost CMS blog I was bragging about? I may have gotten too excited and overlooked something. Overlooked something kind of important, namely mobile experience. Images go here ^Ok so maybe it wasn't working so smooth. Let's see what's going on this

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Ghost in the Mirror

So in an earlier episode I talked a bit about my project for hosting a project/resume site for my stuff, here I'll go into a bit more detail. My objectives were to have a quick, CDN capable responsive site that I could just pop my thoughts onto, and then

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Ghosting+Hosting+S3

Let me tell you about about JAM, Ghosts, Buckets, Static and ActionYou might be wondering to yourself, "is this site using a flattened, static version of a Ghost CMS site on an S3 bucket via Cloudformation edge distribution?" The answer might surprise you. 🤩Yes, yes it isWhy would I do