Trigger Thumb is a symptom caused by different conditions such as tendonitis or carpal tunnel. You may have arrived at this page if you injured your thumb and either find it painful to type or difficult when it is wrapped in a splint (which you should definitely be doing). Prior…

It took me a couple of times to understand how to wrap my head around IULs and their benefits. This concept of “Bank on Yourself” or “Infinite Banking” makes it more complex than necessary. If you’ve heard of these concepts before, the TLDR; is that taking a type of whole…

Since at least 2016 or 2017, I’ve noticed a crazy flaw with the Lastpass Chrome Extension and have warned many of my colleagues. I had hoped that something would change but sadly, nothing has. The flaw in question is directly attributable to a feature that makes Lastpass popular. Passwords are…

Getting data into S3 from an external flat or JSON file can be a major pain but AWS Redshift offers a convenient proprietary command called COPY which can be used to import any comma separated files into any table in your redshift database. …

Many of us have been working from home exclusive and finding reliability has been lacking with our local internet providers, especially those without access to fiber. At my residence we have been struggling with uptime on our Spectrum Cable Broadband. Long story short, I’ve noticed that my hotspot internet from…

While you should rely on the deployment process, there are cases such as emergency maintenance that may require you to manually send files from your local machine to your Elastic Beanstalk instance. Remember, an instance is a cluster of EC2 servers, so what you’re really talking about is logging into…

A few months ago my friends at work thought it would be a good idea to do this Spartan Race. It looked like a lot of fun and at surface level was the motivation I needed to get back in shape. …

PHP is not often thought of as being a native player in the serverless stack. In fact, AWS Lambda, which is one of the most popular serverless providers, only provides native support for Node.js, Python, Java, Ruby, C#, Go and PowerShell. Similarly, Google Functions only supports Node.js, Python, and Go. …

I needed a place to put the advice I wanted my kids to know about to help them navigate through life in case I wasn’t around. Slow Is Smooth. Smooth Is Fast. Sometimes when you go too fast you make more mistakes which ultimately create a larger issue. Don’t panic…