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Mike Bell

Mike Bell

I do computer stuff

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Terraforming AWS
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I’ve had my personal AWS setup for 10 years now and it’s time that it got organised. I’ve made previous attempts at this using Terraformer but it’s output wasn’t structure enough for my liking.
My First Year-ish on the Fediverse
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It’s about this time of year that marks my first year on the fediverse. I’ve really enjoyed it, I decided to quit Twitter just over a year ago and Reddit after they cut off third party apps. I have both my own Mastodon and Lemmy server. Mastodon is hosted with Masto.host, at the time I was pretty ill and didn’t want the hassle of managing it all myself, I also wanted the option of easily scaling it if I ever decided to open it up to friends/family.
Home Assistant Backup to S3
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How to easily backup your Home Assistant configuration to an S3 bucket. Steps # Go to Supervisor Add-on Store 3 dot menu - Repositories Add https://github.com/mikebell/hassio-backup-s3 Close Once the addon is installed you can click on it and follow the up to date readme file to configure your IAM user and policy.
The 10 Minute JS File Part 1
·744 words·4 mins
This problem has been plaguing me for months now so I thought I’d write down everything I’ve done to try and solve the issue of the 10 minute js file.
I Should Add Thoughts
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I should add thoughts to the site. Small form comments sort of like tweets