Goodbye WordPress, Hello Hugo
I switched this site from WordPress to Hugo, a static site on S3. No more servers to hack, no more PHP or Apache vulnerabilities, and no database. Simple, still looks good, and less cost and headache overall.
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Apple Silicon Chips Ranked: Every M-Series Chip, M1 to M6 (2026)
Every Apple silicon Mac chip ranked, M1 to M6, by Geekbench 6 single-core, multi-core and Metal GPU scores. No ads.
Trip Radius Planner – A Tiny Tool for Big Roadtrip
Ever want to take a road trip… but have no idea where you actually want to go? Same. So I built a quick tool: Trip Radius Planner Just type in how many hours you want to drive, and it shows you a map of how far you could get. That’s it. No logins, no planning […]
Created A Playground
I’ve really the playground, you know the days when you could just FTP a few files to a directory and bam it was live on the internet! So I created one again called https://playground.scottpreston.com. Right now I just a a few examples projects/experiments.
Some of my Favorite Business Books
Over the years I’ve ready many business books. I thought I would spend some time talking about my favorite top 5.
Ethereum Mining Trial
So this week-end I did an experiment with Ethereum Mining. The first thing I did was use a calculator. Here’s one from CryptoCompare.com. Now according to this calculator, I should make around $36 bucks a month for my Nvidia GTX 1060 Card. Well, I did an experiment and after 28 hours I made $1.10. This […]
The Big Network Refactor – Part 2
The next step in setting up my network was adding additional “LANS” to my network. So while before I was happy with two networks 192168.1.1/24 and 10.10.10.1/24. I really wanted more isolation from my IoT network, Security Camera Network, my Raspberry PI and Smart-Home network and the computers and devices we use all the time. […]
The Big Network Refactor – Part 1
I’ve been having network problems of late and also because of security I wanted to better isolate my network from IoT devices from Google, Amazon, Hue, Etc. I basically had a few ASUS routers (which have been great) and I’ve been using a Double NAT (Network Address Translation) with my more secure stuff behind another […]
Synology SSH – No Password
While this is usually a trivial task it took me about an hour to get my permissions correct to get this to work. Here are the steps that finally let me get things working: Open the sshd_conf by entering: Then edit as follows: Then go to your command line and change some file permissions. If […]
Remember it’s about “decentralization”
You can take my ramblings about Big Tech a number of ways but ultimately it’s about decentralization. Don’t put all all your eggs in one basket. Diversify your portfolio. Own your own path. Explore alternatives. Grow.