ProblemCannot trigger AWS Amplify to re-build without pushing a new commit.We've been using AWS Amplify for some deployments. What's been annoying is that the build process gets triggered automatically based on diff'ing the latest commit with previous commits.This gets pretty annoying when you want to do things like…
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AWS EC2 t2.micro out of space
So I noticed that my blog was down earlier today. My blog is a self-hosted Ghost instance on an AWS EC2 server. After connecting via SSH onto the server, I noticed that when trying to do bash completion or even editing a file using vim, I was getting the following…
[Hackintosh] APFS and FileVault 2 Encryption Boot Problems
Wow, it's been a minute since I last posted! Have definitely been quite busy with school and work. I finally got around to assembling my trusty desktop again. I procrastinated for awhile because I forgot my motherboard I/O shield in Taiwan in my old case and ended up ordering…
[Hackintosh] Upgrading from El Capitan (10.11) to High Sierra (10.13)
Introduction So I sit down at my desk yesterday all hyped to upgrade to the latest version of Ableton Live 10. Once I'm ready to launch the app and see if it works, I get this error message. Depression! Of course this would happen to me. Since I run a…
Changing the port in dropwizard
You can update the ports in your yaml configuration file: http: port: 9000 adminPort: 9001 If you've migrated to Dropwizard 0.7.0 you can use the following: server: applicationConnectors: - type: http port: 9000 adminConnectors: - type: http port: 9001 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20028451/change-dropwizard-default-ports…
Hosting and Password-Protecting a Ghost blog using Apache
Using Apache as the Reverse Proxy This blog is an instance of Ghost running on a Linode. I'm going to assume that you've already got Ghost up and running with Node.js if you are reading this. The Ghost installation guides are pretty good, but it's easy to just copy…