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A Blog about my adventures in the cloud.
The Discord Bot Framework
I’m happy to announce the release of my Discord Bot Framework. A tool that I’ve spent a considerable amount of time working on to help people build and deploy Discord Bots quickly within AWS. Let me first start off by saying I’ve never released a product. I’ve run a service business and I’m a consultant…
Building a Python Script to Export WordPress Posts: A Step-by-Step Database to CSV Guide
Today, I want to share a Python script I’ve been using to extract blog posts from WordPress databases. Whether you’re planning to migrate your content, create backups, or analyze your blog posts, this tool makes it straightforward to pull your content into a CSV file. I originally created this script when I needed to analyze…
2024 Year in Review: A Journey Through Code and Creation
As another year wraps up, I wanted to take a moment to look back at what I’ve shared and built throughout 2024. While I might not have posted as frequently as in some previous years (like 2020’s 15 posts!), each post this year represents a significant technical exploration or project that I’m proud to have…
Converting DrawIO Diagrams to Terraform
I’m going to start this post of by saying that I need testers. People to test this process from an interface perspective as well as a data perspective. I’m limited on the amount of test data that I have to put through the process. With that said, I spent my Thanksgiving Holiday writing code, building…
API For Pre-signed URLs
Pre-signed URL’s are used for downloading objects from AWS S3 buckets. I’ve used them many times in the past for various reasons but this idea was a new one. A proof of concept for an API that would create the pre-signed URL and return it to the user. This solution utilizes an API Gateway and…
Adding a reminder feature to Discord
As many of you know, I released my Discord Bot Framework the other week. This has prompted me to put sometime into developing new features for the bot’s I manage. I’ve always been a fan of the “remind” functionality that many Reddit communities have. In my Discord, we are often sending media content that I…
Product Name Detection with AWS Bedrock & Anthropic Claude
Well, my AWS bill me a bit larger than normal this month due to testing this script. I thoroughly enjoy utilizing Generative AI to do work for me and I had some spare time to tackle this problem this week. A client sent me a bunch of product images that were not named properly. All…
Streamline Your S3 Management: How to Count Small Files Locally with Python
I recently came across a need to count objects in an S3 bucket that were of particular size. There isn’t a native way to do this within the S3 console so I decided to script it out using Python and the AWS SDK. You can see all of the code on my GitHub. The script…
Securing AWS S3 Objects with Python: Implementing SSE-S3 Encryption
In the cloud-native world, data security is paramount, and securing Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 storage is a critical task for any developer. In this article, we dive into a Python script designed to ensure that all your S3 objects are encrypted using Server-Side Encryption with S3-Managed Keys (SSE-S3). This method provides robust security by…
Creating a local “Lex” Environment
This came up in a conversation I was having so I decided to take a stab at coding something to help. Let’s say you are building an Amazon Web Services chat bot using Lex and you want to test your Lambda logic locally before you deploy to your AWS account. Currently, as far as I…
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