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Rails Quickstart - Static Pages & User Manager

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Backups are Important - Where did my site go?

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Delusions of my Breaking Mind

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Fishing Hooks in Hidden Nooks

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After spending the last week bashing my head against a desk trying to locate the various settings and “gotchas” of AWS for network address translation and IP forwarding from within a VPC, I’ve finally written down concise enough notes to publish something here so I never have to remember how […]

Tech

Network Gateway Router in AWS

Published 2021-03-25

Basic Setup Create new rails app (note: the nokogiri line is usually needed on MacOS to properly build the dependency) Launch server (check it’s running by going to http://localhost:3000) Add some gems to Gemfile Install gem dependencies Bootstrap support Rename app/assets/stylesheets/application.css to app/assets/stylesheets/application.scss and remove require lines Static Page Support […]

Tech

Rails Quickstart – Static Pages & User Manager

Published 2020-11-09

Some Background Websites are awesome, everyone should have one, especially those in the IT world. I bought my first domain name (stufranks.systems… ew) at 17 because I wanted to host some of the guides I’d written as I learned Linux first-hand at my first job. I wrote up a bunch […]

Ramblings Tech

Backups are Important – Where did my site go?

Published 2020-06-23

You’ve seen it on videos, at concerts. Sweaty, tattooed youths bashing into each other, spinning around, bodies moving like a violent sea. Gaps in the adoring fans being filled desperately with flesh and energy. The Moshers. I am a mosher, and I would like you to join me on a […]

Music Ramblings

Mosh Pit Therapy

Published 2020-01-17

I heard that you’re alone again,I hope you’ll be okay,It takes every bit of discipline,To not reach out and say,That I have raging thoughts within,For you to not suffer and to pay, The hypocrisy inside of me,Is fueled by different shards,All of which I calmly see,But disregarding them is hard, […]

Poetry

Delusions of my Breaking Mind

Published 2019-09-09

The lonely fisherman sat idle on his raft,Comfort and composure engaging in his craft,Reeling in occasional fruits from the water-bodied God,He wrangled down inside himself and felt something odd, For where there was passion there was also a loss,For where his raft was strong there was also growing moss,And this […]

Poetry

Fishing Hooks in Hidden Nooks

Published 2018-12-03

Its tracing letters in the same sentenceIts screaming the same stupid thing(See You in Vancouver by La Dispute) I remember the first time I heard a “heavy metal” song. I was 13, in secondary school and a friend with long wavy hair pushed his earbud towards my skull. The whirlwind […]

Music Ramblings

Screaming in Music — A Defense of Yelling

Published 2018-10-20

Record scratch, flip to side B,Unknown songs that are a part of me,Fresh sounds and unusual beats,I’m tapping my feet,This change of tune,It came so soon,Where was the crossfade,The suspension of self,Thrown into a genre of difference,Leaves me losing every sense, But the beat resonates,The tempo complicates,And I nod my […]

Poetry

For The Record

Published 2018-09-29

Look past the hills and you’ll see a new dawn,Open your diary and the pages are torn,I can’t hazard a guess as to why it all is,Or why your eyes look at mine and not his, All I do know is that loneliness is true,And there are always people just […]

Poetry

New Dawn

Published 2018-08-16

With this poem I drew inspiration from the song Constellations by Enter Shikari. While the song reflects upon external issues (society, sustainability, politics), I enjoyed the idea of abstracting the internal (aimlessness, uncertainty, panic) to that of a train with no destination. The title was the first thing that came […]

Poetry

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Published 2018-04-26

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