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Disclaimer This post contains affiliate links. Introduction As you know, in Information Technology, things are evolving fast. Too fast to stay up to date without losing your mind to information overload/fatigue. To remediate that, I will give you my daily/weekly routine and tips to stay focused on your tasks/objectives without missing anything interesting, and to assimilate it at your own pace. Daily Routine Sign In In the morning, I’m reading my Brew. Mailbrew gives you the ability to craft your own newsletter based on your most interesting content, like tweets with the most engagement from your favorite Twitter accounts, Newsletters, most upvoted Sub-reddit posts, daily calendar schedule, most interesting Hacker News posts and so on. Crafted just by you and for you. ...

TL;DR HighCharts -> APIGW -> DynamoDB + Lambda function 🎉 cockpit.zoph.io Introduction Lately, I was working on a new version, API based, for my Twitter Cockpit. In the previous version, Highcharts was loading data from some flat csv files. The goal of this cockpit is to retrieve and store unlimited history for specific Twitter accounts based on a Twitter list. It means that you can control from Twitter which accounts you want to graph for follower/following history. When you are using Twitter Analytics, the history only compares followers (not following) to the previous 28-day period, and the graph is in fact a non-clickable thumbnail image, a very poor experience for free users. ...

TL;DR I’m working remotely for 145+ days. (March 2020) Setup In this post, I will describe my setup for Work From Home (WFH) @ zoph.io. I’m now using this setup daily since March 2020 due to the pandemic crisis. Compute I’ve been using macOS for 24 years now 👴. My first ever computer was a Performa 5200 (with TV Tuner card inside folks!! 📺). Nowadays, I’m using a MacBook Pro 13" 2.8 GHz i7, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD. ...

TL;DR I’m now using PGP for archive file encryption. The trigger This summer, I read Permanent Record from Edward Snowden, “Ed” for those in the know. I was pretty impressed at how a government organization with a multi-billion dollar budget can organize a mass surveillance program at a worldwide scale in only a few decades. “Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.” ...

This post was updated in July 2020. It was originally my first post on this blog in December 2016. 👴 I’m often asked by many colleagues, friends, or Twitter followers where to start with Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this post, I will try to explain where you should start in 2020. I’ll try to write this post as I wish I had when I got into this technology in 2016. ...