W7PEA

I spent this week moving one of my projects to AWS hosting and since I didn't find great documentation on how to do that, I wanted to share what I put together for those to come.

My deployment has an Ubuntu 16.04 EC2 Instance runnign NGINX at the front …

LetsEncrypt.org is a free Certificate Authority for SSL certificates. The system is designed to allow you to automate requesting SSL certificates and installing them into your web server. As the solution is quite new, it does not work with Synology (yet?). Here's how you can do it manually. At …

Trip Report

Hike was easy in and weather was good although 10-15 degrees cooler than we had hoped.

We decided to not go for the activation because the approach to the summit involved about a mile of off-trail scramble across a meadow and there also happened to be a group …

Yesterday we got bored and it was too hot on CapHill so we jumped in the car and went for a drive. We do this trip to nowhere quite often. Usually I declare a road trip, say if we need to pack clothes or not and off we go. I …

This was my first attempt to activate a summit and all of this is a first attempt in terms of planning, tools used, the template I used to write this, etc. Let me know  if there are other things you want to know about for future summits.

First SOTA - Elk …