Turn Me Up! How I Control My Own In-Ear Monitor Mix

March 2, 2021

“I need more of myself! Turn me up!” – Musicians Worldwide It is an age old dilemma for the sound crew- how to provide the volume levels that each musician wants in order to hear themself. I recall the time when floor monitors were ubiquitous and all the time the band would spend arguing over

How to Detect Mobile Devices Accessing a Shopify Store

January 25, 2021

how you how to detect mobile devices accessing a Shopify store. Shopify is a great platform for many ecommerce stores. Developing themes is simple with the Liquid template language, however it does have some drawbacks. Liquid templates are pre-rendered on the server and not able to respond dynamically to the device accessing the store. This means whether

How to Make a Domain Proxy for Digital Ocean Spaces

January 15, 2021

Digital Ocean has been my go to solution for hosting for many years. When the Spaces service, an S3 compatible object store, was introduceed, I jumped on board right away. The service performs well and allows me to manage all the web infrastructure from one location. The drawback with Spaces, to me, is how custom

Retire early with the F.I.R.E. method

January 12, 2021

I do not know many people who want to work until they are old, just to retire and not have the physical ability to do the things they have dreamt of doing. It is easier said than done though… There is currently a minimalist trend. Some have taken it to extremes of living in their

How to Secure Docker Containers with a Read-Only Filesystem

January 9, 2021

A compromised website sucks. A compromised website that an attacker can insert code into to manipulate your visitors is even worse! Out-of-the-box, Docker containers provide some security advantages over running directly on the host, however Docker provides additional features to increase security. There is a little known flag in Docker that will convert a container’s