Overview aws-vault is a tool for storing your AWS credentials in your system keychain instead of as a plain text file on-disk. Credentials and other secrets (including your various system passwords) are stored inside your system keychain. They are encrypted, and cannot easily be stolen by a rogue script or application. By keeping your AWS credentials in your system keychain, they are available to you when you are logged in, unavailable when you are logged out, and provide an important layer of security that the standard plain text storage method does not.

With the impending shutdown of HipChat (February 2019), my team has been working hard on migrating everything over to Slack. Why not have some fun while we're at it? Slackmoji Firstly, what is Slackmoji? Slackmoji (the word) refers to Slack + emoji — namely, the custom emoji you can add to your Slack account. It adds a bit of color and personality to the default Slack experience. Since I work in technology and the web, my set of Slackmoji tends to be Mac/Web/Browser-centric.

I’ve been a fan of P.O.D. since the 90s, and I’ve continued to follow them throughout their career. This is a collection of my favorite tracks into a single playlist. Playlist .__h_apple_music.card { background-color: rgb(248, 248, 250); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "SF Pro Text", "San Francisco", -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219); padding: 0; margin-bottom: 30px; } .__h_apple_music.card .card-body { position: relative; padding: 10px 10px 10px; padding-bottom: 56.

Only a tiny fraction of the code your application runs was written by you or your team. How do you know you can trust the code that was written by other people? Where would you even start? This piece is part of a larger series on [Engineering for Site Reliability](/series/engineering-for-site-reliability/), specifically _balancing stability against the edge of technology_. What do I mean by “trust”? Movies and TV shows have given us a version of trust which essentially boils down to “Do you trust me?

Over my career, my job title has typically fallen into the baskets of: Front-End Web Developer, Software Engineer, or DevOps/SRE. I’ve done a lot of interviewing to try and find the right people to join the teams I’ve worked on, and I thought it might be helpful to share part of my process. NOTE: I want to start by stating that what is written here are my own thoughts, and not representative of any past or current employer. Remastered?