If you’re a blog writer, you know the importance of engaging content. Up until now, artificial intelligence (AI) has been limited in its ability to help writers create compelling content quickly and easily. But that’s all changing with the introduction of Jasper, an AI-driven platform specifically designed to make blog writing easier and more efficient. … Read more
What is Rytr and How Does it Utilize AI in Blog Writing? Rytr is an AI-powered blog writing tool that helps content creators and bloggers save time by generating quality content quickly. It uses natural language processing (NLP) to create blog posts and product reviews, allowing users to produce more content in less time. Rytr’s … Read more
If you’ve followed my previous posts, you’ll see that I’ve spent some time attempting to build my blog on WordPress and then finally make it static. This had resulted in lots of custom code and even more failed attempts to get things to publish correctly. I’ve finally been successful in building out my site with … Read more
I recently needed to setup Content Security Policy (CSP) on a website and I couldn’t think of where to get started. The first question that came to mind was what all content do I allow and how do I test everything without having to look through all of the code on the site. This is … Read more
I wanted to be able to curate some of my favorite RSS feeds into a single location. There are an endless number of RSS readers and ways to do it but I wanted to use Slack since it’s on every device I use. Using Slack would also allow me to get notifications wherever I was. … Read more
If you are not familiar with adminer, you can read more about it here. In short, it is a PHP script that allows you to manage various databases via a single interface. We have been successfully using the adminer official docker image from docker hub for a number of different databases. We now have a … Read more
Now that I’m beginning to use Github to manage my Kubernetes cluster as shown in my previous article Making The Leap Into Devops, it’s time to start bringing over some of my sample systems for testing. This article shows how to make use of Bitnami’s PostgreSQL helm chart to deploy a sample PostgreSQL database in … Read more
I ran into a small problem recently when I was leveraging my site updating code referenced in Automating Static WordPress Updates. The problem was that I was unable to update content reliably for two reasons: Now that I have the problems covered, let’s get right to it. In order to resolve the issue, I needed … Read more
I recently had to do some tinkering in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) with Compute Instances and the Key and Secrets Management in Oracle Vault. I wanted to be able to replicate AWS EC2 instance capability to access secrets based upon the instance’s permissions without requiring any usernames, passwords, tokens, etc… to be stored on the … Read more
I think I stopped blogging because I just wasn’t quite sure I liked the blogger platform. I guess WordPress is the place to be in the blogging world. After agonizing for a very long time, it seems that it was not time to make the big switch. Turns out, it wasn’t that hard at all. … Read more