Another challenge I’ve taken on recently is moving my content to GitHub from Bitbucket. Medium.com wrote a great article about Github’s impact on your software career Security being top-priority though, I needed to secure my secrets before moving this content to public repos. Enter git-crypt.

I wouldn’t normally post on a human interest story like this, but this story hit me harder than most news stories. As a lawyer, I usually defend the justice system; in this case, I felt like this was a tragic story that could have been prevented.

A decent solution for posting to this blog when traveling

My Home Assistant commits have been in Bitbucket because of the privacy of dealing with secrets and API tokens. Most of the commit history included passwords, so I decided to just wipe the commit history.

A good colleague, Matt A., recommended that I check out Jekyll on Github pages instead of trying to run my own Wordpress blog or using one of the free WP hosting providers. I think I like this! I’ve moved my current 3-4 blog posts over here and will continue posting here. I’m shutting down the WP blog now.

The primary reason I’ve spent all the time getting Traefik and Let’s Encrypt working is so that I could expose HomeAssistant, safely and responsibly, to the internet. Home Assistant (aka HASS) is an open-source home automation platform that can run on a wide-array of ARM and x86 machines, and it backs a lot of the smarts behind my home automation setup (though I’m looking at migrating some of that intelligence to Node-RED). Check my previous post if you need to get Traefik and Let’s Encrypt running.

To quote one of the great code-wizards I know, ‘Traefik is magic.’

So obviously I bought a domain this week.