AMP Cache Update Script

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I recently read up on the AMP Project and installed the plugin to enable AMP-compatible pages for my blog. A couple weeks later I realized the code snippets in some of my blog posts were formatted incorrectly. I fixed the […]

Running Python CGI Scripts on the Raspberry Pi

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Python is the language of choice for controlling the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins. It seems only natural then that to interact with your Pi over the web it should run a web server able to handle Python CGI scripts. Following the steps below […]

Automating Rsync Backups to Amazon EC2

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A while back I wrote about how to perform incremental backups via rsync to an Amazon EC2 instance. The script worked great when run manually from a Python interpreter but I always ran into issues when trying to automate the […]

Backup to AWS EBS via Rsync and Boto 3

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Update 11/2015: Updated the script to use boto3 and waiters Switched to use the t2.micro instance type with VPC More detailed setup instructions Overview Amazon Web Services Elastic Block Storage provides cheap, reliable storage—perfect for backups. The idea is to temporarily […]
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