I am off for the next two weeks (more or less) so my goal is to check off a bunch of crap on my todo list that has been sitting on there for a while. One of those things that I’ve wanted to do was connect my server on AWS that is hosting Signal-Chief to »
The NDAA hasn’t officially passed congress but it appears that it won’t have to many issues in the Senate despite some poison pills that the House attached to it. So, with that, I am happy to release version (200)5 of the retirement calculator. You can download the latest version at https://www.signal-chief.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Post-Military-Salary-Calculator-v5.xlsx
I do a fair bit of development work for various side projects that I contribute to or work on myself. I wanted to be able to work within a container for a few reasons, and finally figured out how to do it.
How hard could it be to get a 2nd phone number and assign it a different ringtone? A lot harder than I expected.
Continuing on with some write-ups from the Hack the Box Cyber Apocalypse 2024 event. This one wasn’t particularly difficult, but it was a pain and time consuming. I went through this process manually but one of these days I’ll have to see if I can find a way to script it out and make it appear faster.
Last weekend I jumped in and joined some co-workers for a capture the flag challenge hosted by Hack The Box. This is a walk-through (spoiler alert) for the forensics challenge “Urgent”
As the holidays come to an end, I have completed (well not finished, but been working on while I had free time) Advent of Code. I’ve talked about this in years past, but the short of it is 25 days of coding problems. Day 7 has to do with playing a game of Camel Cards.
Now that Congress has finally passed this year’s NDAA, we know what the final pay tables for 2024 will look like. This updated calculator also includes updates to the IRS tax brackets for 2023 and the new VA disability rates that went into effect Dec 2023. Again, if you see any mistakes, please let me »
My oldest kid wanted a Minecraft server for them and their friends, but I didn’t want to pay to run one 24/7. What should have been an easy project turned into a lot of discovery learning. Save yourself sometime and read this.
I recently had to do some throughput testing on a firewall using TRex. What should have been a pretty simple process honestly took a little bit of troubleshooting.