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4 Changes To Voting That Will Empower Everyone

Voter turnout in the US is dismal. Since the 70s, turnout for presidential elections has bounced between 50% and 60%. Key words there, "presidential elections," the most marketed election in the land to the highest office in the land. Imagine what's happening at the state and

Do We Really Need More?

Unless you're a uniquely enlightened individual, you probably want it. More. Be it fame, recognition, tacos, cats, whatever. For me, money has always been high up on that list and it took a lot of years to realize my financial desires are really about security. Strange as it

On Being In The Age Of Coronavirus

Over the past couple of months, humanity's collective story has changed. We're going through something big, something we weren't prepared for and with limited medical supplies and no vaccines the only weapon many of us have is to isolate. How do we adjust to

The Mysterious Let's Encrypt API

I'm writing this because, frankly, I cannot believe how little information there is out there on interacting with Let's Encrypt programmatically. Hopefully what follows can save you some pain and suffering. tldr; Here's a working Node.js/JavaScript example I built demo'ing

Upload To Digital Ocean Spaces From Your Dang Browser

Spaces is Digital Ocean's answer to AWS S3. The products are almost identical, so much so that the APIs are backwards compatible. This is nice because you can use existing battle hardened packages you might already be familiar with (like aws-sdk-js) to interact with Spaces. It'd

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