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Hi, my name is Patrick Lambert and I'm an IT worker, anime fan, digital artist and video gamer. I live in Montreal, Canada and have over 15 years of experience in technology. This site contains links to many things I've created in the past couple of years.

You can see the freelance services I offer here.

Blog posts

These are the blog posts, articles, whitepapers and tutorials I wrote in the recent past.

Date	Title	Category
2015-02-16	Implementing Google Authentication on CentOS 7.x	Administration
2017-01-02	Tips and tricks on using PowerShell	Coding
2016-05-08	Building an OpenVPN server in AWS	Cloud
2017-09-29	How to remove Windows 10 bloatware applications	Administration
2016-08-01	Top 10 tenets of a System Administrator	Administration
2017-07-13	10 tips for securing your digital life	Security
2016-01-07	Rosetta Stone of Coding (html)	Coding
2016-10-01	Raspberry Pi projects	Gadgets
2015-12-22	Making a .NET Windows app without using Visual Studio	Coding
2015-11-28	Deep analysis of modern web site (pdf)	Cloud
2015-09-03	Sending notifications from PowerShell using AWS SNS	Coding
2015-04-15	Accessing SQLite databases in PowerShell	Coding
2015-01-30	Office 365 Cheatsheet (pdf)	Administration
2015-01-29	Networking Cheatsheet (pdf)	Administration
2015-01-27	AWS S3 and PowerShell tutorial	Cloud
2014-11-29	Scripting web sessions in PowerShell	Coding
2014-11-07	Database administration for non-DBAs (pdf)	Administration
2014-10-15	A study of code abstraction (pdf)	Coding
2014-09-28	Generating Global IDs (pdf)	Coding
2013-12-11	Creating a users directory in FileMaker from AD	Coding
2012-09-21	Star Wars Timeline (pdf)	Personal
2011-01-12	Making of a 3D render (pdf)	Media
2010-07-06	Lighting tutorial in E-on Vue (pdf)	Media
2010-07-01	3D Concepts (pdf)	Media
2017-11-27	Ansible tips and tricks	Administration
2016-11-29	Finding things with findstr, find and grep	Administration
2015-01-02	Keeping your clock up to date with NTP	Administration
2017-11-29	Installing multiple Python versions	Administration
2018-01-01	Public PGP key	Personal
2015-04-22	Google is using Chrome to shape the web in their image	Cloud
2016-03-12	Image and video conversion with FFmpeg and ImageMagick	Media
2018-03-14	Let's Encrypt and certbot commands	Administration
2018-04-15	Scanning Wi-Fi with Linux	Security
2013-04-22	Modeling V4 props in Hexagon	Media
2018-09-27	Japanese Language Reference (pdf)	Anime
2019-02-06	Using tor to download anonymously on CentOS Linux	Security
2016-02-19	SystemD reference sheet	Administration
2015-06-28	Hard disk health check in Linux	Administration
2019-05-16	Primer for collecting anime figures	Anime
2019-07-29	Checking the health of AWS ELB targets using a Lambda function	Coding
2019-08-06	When does it make sense to go serverless?	Cloud
2018-12-24	Automating the creation of a self-signed certificate in IIS	Administration
2018-07-12	What is 'frugal' for me	Finances
2019-08-18	Backing up your cloud instances with AWS Lifecycle Policy	Cloud
2019-03-01	How to work with Ansible templates	Administration
2019-09-08	Investing to financial independence as a Canadian	Finances
2019-09-19	Dividend investing portfolio diversification	Finances
2019-09-20	I like good tech, but I dislike trendy gadgets	Gadgets
2019-09-25	The $1,000,000 goal post	Finances
2017-08-22	Making a weather status screen in Python	Coding
2019-10-02	Stock valuation 101	Finances
2019-10-07	The true outcome of a recession	Finances
2019-10-09	What is DevOps? Here is my definition	Cloud
2019-10-12	A sample cloud design template	Cloud
2018-10-12	Using Docker on CentOS 7	Administration
2018-11-09	A homelab on a budget	Administration
2019-11-16	Login authentication federation the old way	Administration
2019-11-18	Building an Azure web app using continuous deployment in 15 minutes	Cloud
2019-11-20	Publishing your first Docker container	Coding
2019-04-07	Installing MySQL in a Docker container and creating a new database	Administration
2019-11-28	Should our email services be silently bouncing emails?	Cloud
2017-04-20	Setting up a ZFS filesystem on Linux	Administration
2019-12-09	Deploying an AWS Lambda function using Ansible	Cloud
2019-01-02	Making a Docker compose file for Guacamole	Administration
2020-02-10	Continuous integration workflow using GitHub, Travis and AWS EBS	Cloud
2019-12-15	Securing Guacamole while running in a Docker container	Security
2015-10-19	Creating a foreign key in MySQL	Coding
2016-12-02	Using S3 versus local files	Cloud
2020-01-19	How to store and access secrets when deploying in AWS	Cloud
2020-03-30	The perfect virtual office	Administration
2020-04-12	Financial decisions during a pandemic	Finances

Software projects

These are some projects available on this site. You can find all my open source code on GitHub.

Name	Description
Healthstone	A lightweight system monitoring service.
RobCo	Fallout terminal emulator.
Headers	Headers and browser information.
Connix	Python 3 utilities library.
Aurebesh	Learn Aurebesh, the Star Wars language.
BOFH	Handy excuses for help desk technicians.
Crypt	Crypto and hashing web utilities.
Scripts	My system administration scripts.
TideArt	Archived content from TideArt website.
NodePoint	An IT system for the modern environment. (deprecated)
Services	Cloud services I offer as a freelancer.
Walking	Healthkit telemetry from my walks.

You can see the freelance services I offer here.

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