Something I’d been really keen to try for myself for ages was using AWS and S3 to host a static page. I learnt about in the AWS Sys Ops course but like everything else, its quite nice to play with it for yourself in a quasi-production kind of way. This guide by Jennifer Wilson from Northwestern University covers the vast majority of what you need to do and is pretty thorough.

We are currently migrating 12,000 mailboxes into Exchange Online from our Exchange 2007 environment. We have batched up our users based on various criteria and from time to time we have the need to make a migration list from a Distribution Group. Being a little bit too keen to write something myself, I disappeared down the rabbit hole and came up with 90 odd lines to expand a distribution list and its nested distribution lists. It was a daft mistake to doing more research before this because, there is a nice little commandlet that already exists in the ActiveDirectory PowerShell Module:

Bit of python to drop a new Jekyll post into the current folder with all the front matter and stuff.

For a while now, I’ve been using an mid-2010 iMac 27” as an external display for my Hackintosh using Target Display Mode. It worked really well but the fact that I needed to run a machine to do nothing but be an additional screen bothered me a bit, seemed like a waste. As well as that, when you wake your mahcine from sleep, Target Display Mode often needs to be re-estsablished and that can be a little annoying.