A collection of thoughts, tutorials, and experiences from my journey as an software engineer. Here you'll find technical deep-dives, lessons learned, occasional reflections on the ever-evolving world of technology, and the occasional "aha!" moment from building things that (mostly) works.
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AWS CloudWatch Logs for Chef
May 21, 2017
How to configure Chef to send logs to AWS CloudWatch Logs for centralized logging and monitoring of Chef runs.
PPTP VPN on macOS Sierra
May 16, 2017
How to create PPTP VPN connections on macOS Sierra using command line after Apple discontinued built-in PPTP VPN client support.
Testing Amazon SES SMTP with OpenSSL
May 14, 2017
A guide on how to test Amazon SES SMTP functionality using OpenSSL from the command line to troubleshoot email delivery issues.
Missing xcrun on OS X El Capitan
October 1, 2015
How to fix the missing xcrun command line tool error on OS X El Capitan after system updates or fresh installations.
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