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7 Rules for Designing a Captivating Presentation

I’ve always admired people who have a great on-stage presence. The ability to masterfully deliver a presentation, speaking to crowds of people without a single brainfart amazes me. But no matter how good of a speaker you are, if you don’t have a good deck to present with, you’re going to have to rely on …

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gauth – Two Factor Authenticator for the CLI enthusiasts

Couple of days ago I’ve stumbled upon interesting tool that may save quite some time for tech-savvy – gauth, a two-factor-authentication CLI tool. Wait, what is two-factor authentication? Two-factor authentication (2FA) — also known as two-step verification or multifactor authentication — adds a layer of security to your online accounts, from Amazon, Apple and Google …

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Blue/Green deployments with AWS Auto-Scaling Group and Terraform

One of the goals that my colleagues and I emphasis when implementing DevOps best-practices is seamless CI-CD process. While some AWS services are bundled with deployment strategies out-of-the-box, sometimes, we want to be agnostic to a specific “wrapping” service (Elastic Beanstalk, CodeDeploy) and run our apps on “bare” EC2 instances, thus gain more control. So …

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How to disable WordPress plugin directly from DB

Several days ago I’ve experienced an unpleasant situation where I was locked out of my WordPress admin page due to a bug / misconfiguration in Google Captcha (reCAPTCHA) by BestWebSof. Each time I tried to login I was denied, regardless of the captcha being marked: Pretty nasty situation, considering that I’m locked out of the admin …

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