Daily Stock Market Updates In Slack Using Python and AWS Lambda

Posted on Mon 20 February 2023 in Tech • Tagged with python, aws, tech, money • 3 min read

A way to get daily updates of the major stock indicies in Slack using a Python script running in AWS Lambda


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Playing Your Own Games

Posted on Sat 07 January 2023 in Tech • Tagged with godot, gamedev • 2 min read

Constantly playing the games you're developing can have great benefits.


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Automatically Update Godot Game Clients

Posted on Sun 04 September 2022 in Tech • Tagged with godot, gamedev • 5 min read

Code and setup instructions for creating a game launcher in Godot to automatically download and run the latest game version.


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Post to Slack from Godot

Posted on Sun 17 July 2022 in Tech • Tagged with godot, gamedev • 2 min read

Code and setup instructions for posting directly to a Slack channel from a Godot app.


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Sending Minimed 770G Data To Nightscout On AWS

Posted on Sat 12 March 2022 in Tech • Tagged with tech, aws, diabetes, health • 7 min read

I set up Nightscout on AWS using EC2, ALB, and Route 53 instead of Heroku and Mongo Atlas. I also used a custom xDrip+ Android app to send CGM data to my Ticwatch E3. Here are the details!


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Installing TriggerMesh and Knative in Minikube

Posted on Sat 05 February 2022 in Tech • Tagged with tech, kubernetes, triggermesh, work, howto • 3 min read

Notes, resources, and thoughts on the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional exam after passing in January 2022.


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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Exam

Posted on Sat 29 January 2022 in Tech • Tagged with aws, work • 5 min read

Notes, resources, and thoughts on the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional exam after passing in January 2022.


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How I Fixed AWS ELB Health Checks Failing On Flask

Posted on Sun 28 February 2021 in Tech • Tagged with flask, python, aws • 3 min read

Details on how I set up a Flask application on AWS ECS behind an Elastic Load Balancer, and what I had to do to get the ELB health checks to properly work.


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Using A Tornado Socket.IO Server For A Multiplayer Game

Posted on Thu 04 February 2021 in Tech • Tagged with tornado, python, game jam • 4 min read

I participated in my first team game jam last weekend, where we developed a multiplayer game using Phaser as the frontend and Tornado as the backend, which communicated via websockets. Here are some details, decisions, and lessons learned.


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Using HTMX in Flask without Flask-Bootstrap

Posted on Fri 18 December 2020 in Tech • Tagged with flask, python, htmx, bootstrap • 5 min read

Details on how I switched from Flask-Bootstrap to directly using Bootstrap 4, which broke my HTMX functions. Here's how I was able to fix it.


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