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I'm gonna learn Go!

January 20, 2023

I'm gonna learn Go! Not the 2500 year old Chinese board game, the 13 year old programming language developed at Google. I have a little experience with Go, but...

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Notes on backing up my Mastodon server to S3

January 11, 2023

📖 You can read more of my posts on running your own Mastodon server right here: https://www.micahwalter.com/tag/mastodon/ I mentioned in my last post on how...

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How much I’ve spent so far running my own Mastodon server on AWS

December 21, 2022

📖 You can read more of my posts on running your own Mastodon server right here: https://www.micahwalter.com/tag/mastodon/ I’ve been running my own single-user...

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Auto-Incrementing DynamoDB with Lambda and a Function URL

December 14, 2022

I worked this out a while back using TypeScript, but for some reason I decided I needed to redo this in Python. So, here it is. This is simply a CDK...

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Notes on serving images and a brief Mastodon server outage

November 27, 2022

📖 You can read more of my posts on running your own Mastodon server right here: https://www.micahwalter.com/tag/mastodon/ I’ve been running my own Mastodon...

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Notes on configuring Amazon CloudWatch to monitor my Mastodon server

November 23, 2022

📖 You can read more of my posts on running your own Mastodon server right here: https://www.micahwalter.com/tag/mastodon/ It’s day 2 of running my own...

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Notes on running a Mastodon server on AWS

November 22, 2022

📖 You can read more of my posts on running your own Mastodon server right here: https://www.micahwalter.com/tag/mastodon/ It’s been a few weeks now since...

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AssumeRole Compatible S3 Clients for MacOS

November 16, 2022

There are many, many excellent client applications available for connecting to an Amazon Simple Storage Service S3 Bucket from macOS. Over the years, I’ve used...

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Calculating Server Capacity for High Availability

November 10, 2022

Today I was studying for an upcoming AWS Certification and I had a chance to learn a handy method for calculating server capacity for high availability. It’s...

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Transferring Amazon Glacier Deep Archives from one account to another

November 9, 2022

I recently decided to re-do my personal AWS accounts using AWS IAM Identity Center SSO and AWS Control Tower. For reasons mostly having to do with house...

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