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I haven't blogged about it, but a couple of years ago I went through an acquisition. It was a pretty incredible experience and overall pretty positive. I'm sure I'll blog about that at some point, but today I want to discuss a change that I experienced from going through that … a change in me. A change I wish happened a lot sooner. I figured out how to not concern myself with most problems.

Early in the COVID-19 lockdown extravaganza 🎉 my wife and I purchased a new home and moved in. It was a stressful time, filled with uncertainty. In the aftermath, I found myself with pretty terrible internet service and since we are both working in isolation, I am hellbent on finding out why … So I'll use the tools I know – Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana, and Docker – to collect data, analyze it, and still probably not figure it out … but it's something to do.

I've always known that scripts were out there and scouring the internet for exploitable websites. It's why the more widely used blogging applications (I'm looking at you, Wordpress) are so widely hacked. To make my own little positive impact on the world (and because it's fun), I've decided to set up a few traps on my site.

I've been working a great deal with Jekyll lately. I've used it for this blog for a while, but I hadn't spent much time automating the whole process. Unfortunately, when I set out to hook everything up, there didn't seem to be anybody out there doing exactly what I wanted, so it took me a little more time than I expected. I'll guide you through the configuration steps I've taken to get my site automatically deploying to S3 (hosted by CloudFront) using CircleCI whenever you push to your master branch.

This morning was like any other—wake up late, shower, get stuck in traffic—but with a twist. As soon as I hit traffic, which was really bad even by I-85-in-midtown-Atlanta standards, my smart watch started to buzz every few seconds. Trio's servers are unreachable according to our monitoring service. It's going to be one of those mornings.