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.

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.
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)

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

Date	Title	Type
2015-02-16	Implementing Google Authentication on CentOS 7.x	Tutorial
2017-01-02	Tips and tricks on using PowerShell	Cheatsheet
2016-05-08	Building an OpenVPN server in AWS	Tutorial
2017-09-29	How to remove Windows 10 bloatware applications	Tutorial
2016-08-01	Top 10 tenets of a System Administrator	Opinion
2017-07-13	10 tips for securing your digital life	Opinion
2016-01-07	Rosetta Stone of Coding (html)	Cheatsheet
2016-10-01	Raspberry Pi projects	Tutorial
2015-12-22	Making a .NET Windows app without using Visual Studio	Tutorial
2015-11-28	Deep analysis of modern web site (pdf)	Whitepaper
2015-09-03	Sending notifications from PowerShell using AWS SNS	Tutorial
2015-04-15	Accessing SQLite databases in PowerShell	Tutorial
2015-01-30	Office 365 Cheatsheet (pdf)	Cheatsheet
2015-01-29	Networking Cheatsheet (pdf)	Cheatsheet
2015-01-27	AWS S3 and PowerShell tutorial	Tutorial
2014-11-29	Scripting web sessions in PowerShell	Tutorial
2014-11-07	Database administration for non-DBAs (pdf)	Tutorial
2014-10-15	A study of code abstraction (pdf)	Whitepaper
2014-09-28	Generating Global IDs (pdf)	Whitepaper
2013-12-11	Creating a users directory in FileMaker from AD	Tutorial
2012-09-21	Star Wars Timeline (pdf)	Whitepaper
2011-01-12	Making of a 3D render (pdf)	Tutorial
2010-07-06	Lighting tutorial in E-on Vue (pdf)	Tutorial
2010-07-01	3D Concepts (pdf)	Tutorial
2017-11-27	Ansible tips and tricks	Cheatsheet
2016-11-29	Finding things with findstr, find and grep	Cheatsheet
2015-01-02	Keeping your clock up to date with NTP	Cheatsheet
2017-11-29	Installing multiple Python versions	Cheatsheet
2018-01-01	Public PGP key	Other
2015-04-22	Google is using Chrome to shape the web in their image	Opinion
2016-03-12	Image and video conversion with FFmpeg and ImageMagick	Cheatsheet
2018-03-14	Let's Encrypt and certbot commands	Cheatsheet
2018-04-15	Scanning Wi-Fi with Linux	Tutorial
2013-04-22	Modeling V4 props in Hexagon	Tutorial
2018-09-27	Japanese Language Reference (pdf)	Cheatsheet
2019-02-06	Using tor to download anonymously on CentOS Linux	Tutorial
2016-02-19	SystemD reference sheet	Cheatsheet
2015-06-28	Hard disk health check in Linux	Cheatsheet
2019-05-16	Primer for collecting anime figures	Tutorial
2019-07-29	Checking the health of AWS ELB targets using a Lambda function	Tutorial
2019-08-06	When does it make sense to go serverless?	Opinion
2018-12-24	Automating the creation of a self-signed certificate in IIS	Tutorial
2018-07-12	What is 'frugal' for me	Opinion
2019-08-18	Backing up your cloud instances with AWS Lifecycle Policy	Tutorial
2019-03-01	How to work with Ansible templates	Tutorial

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Field	Knowledge
System Administration	Windows Server, Linux, iOS, Android, Active Directory, IIS, Apache, Ansible, SQL, Hyper-V, AWS, Azure
Web development, scripting and coding	HTML, Python, PowerShell, Git
Writing	MS Office, LaTeX, Markdown
Networking	TCP/IP, pfSense, OpenVPN, FreeNAS
Technical Support	Office 365, Google Apps, IE, Chrome, Firefox, etc.