Bryan Fullerton's Blog

Movie Reviews - December 2019

It's been so long since my last review post, I think I originally started writing this one in May and just kept pushing it out. Hopefully I can do at

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Removing Hyper-V from Windows 10

Hyper-V is pretty cool, and I enjoyed playing with it, especially in conjunction with Ubuntu's Multipass tool. However, once I finished playing with it – I have an Ubuntu VM in $WORK data centre that has much faster bandwidth than my home – it proved to

Geek

Ghost admin and CDN caching

I recently switched from BIND to Unbound for my home network's caching DNS server (which I should also write a post about), and in the process also simplified my local DNS to no longer have split-view versions of some of the domain names I

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New things this week - Apr 6

A few new (to me) things that came up this past week. Slack mobile now has a dark modeApache 2.4 has a "patch now" (CVSS score 8.8) local

comics

Reading Comics Tech

I've just recently finally found a good way to get through my backlog of comics in the cbz/cbr format, thought I'd share. Nothing groundbreaking, these tools have been around

Movies

Movie Reviews - February 2019

Another year, some more movie reviews... Obligatory link to how I rate movies, and there may be spoilers. Captain America: Civil War (7/10) - It's a Marvel superheroes movie.

Podcasts

Podcasts 2019

Time for another update on podcasts! I still mourn the death of the video podcast, but I suppose it was fairly inevitable since YouTube and Twitch don't charge creators for

Movies

Movie Reviews - November 2018

It's that time again... as always, reminder about the post on how I rate movies. And spoilers will happen. (Photo by Erik Witsoe on Unsplash) Alien: Covenant (6/10) -

Security

Disguise from the CIA

Fascinating video of a past CIA Chief of Disguise, Jonna Mendez, talking about her work. I suspect many of the specific tactics are not valid anymore – for example, many comments on the video point out that distinctive habits mentioned about Europeans are no longer

Movies

Movie reviews - August 2018

I've heard there're people waiting for me to write more reviews, so I guess I better get moving. Reminder, here's the post where I explain how my rating system. Let's

Work

AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate and Chef version

tl;dr - there seems to be a bug using Chef 14 to bootstrap nodes with the current AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate, using Chef 13 works as expected. I've

Movies

Movie Reviews - July 2018

Yet another installment of movie reviews from my list on IMDB. Moving closer to current, but still almost a year back. Here's the post where I explain how I rate

Work

Talent Multiplier

In a 1x1 with my manager the other day we discussed an interesting topic, which I don't think either of us had fully recognized in this way before. It seems

Movies

Movie Reviews - April 2018

Next chunk of movie reviews from my list on IMDB, still working on a fairly large backlog. Here's the post where I explain how I rate movies. There Will Be

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CQ / AEM - reverting HTTP service config

Ran into an issue today that I couldn't quickly find a useful fix for with Google, so here it is for posterity. In the Adobe AEM (nee CQ) CMS there

Chef

Chef upgrades - part 1

At work our internal Chef infrastructure has been using an older version of Chef for a while. We built out several fully Chef-managed internal projects, all using an automated CI/

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Managing Email

Over almost 30 years using email at work I've gathered a few habits to ensure that I see email as it comes in, reply quickly, and can find messages later.

Books

Books - April 2018

As mentioned in my earlier post about starting to blog book reviews... here are some book reviews! See all the notes in that previous post about how I'm doing these.

Books

New - Book Reviews

As mentioned in my earlier post about social media I've deleted my Goodreads account, so I'm going to start doing some quick blog posts here about any books I've read/

Podcasts

Podcasts 2018

I've recently dumped a bunch of podcasts I used to listen to - some because they were daily radio shows I could never keep up with but for some reason

Work

Working remote

I've been working entirely from home (and sometimes the cottage) for about three years now, and part-time from home for a while before that. I'm thankful that my employer was

Movies

Movie reviews - March 2018

Here's the next chunk from my IMDB ratings. It's been over a year since my last set of reviews, so none of these are particularly new, but here goes anyway.

About

Social Media 2018

(I'm on vacation this week, so will try to post something here every day. The new blog tech has a nice Android app, so I can easily post from my

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Tech tools I'm using - March 2018

A lot of the older posts here have been about what tech tools I've been using, so here's a general update. My main home machine is running Windows 10, as

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Blog Rebuilt

I've finished rebuilding this blog again, this time on the Ghost blogging platform. Unfortunately, although Ghost does have migration tools for WordPress and some other CMSes/blogging tools, they don't