Jimmy Roland - Jimmy Roland

Amazon Web Services: A year with free tier

DevOps can be a handful. Between choosing the correct products and getting your idea out there; it is a necessary evil. Before starting to use AWS, or any Platform As A Service, I had only experience with a couple of VPS providers. Simple servers

Nin.codes featured on DualShockers

Overnight I received a major spike in traffic on Nin.codes. At first I believed it to have been a small attack on the site. It was only 3000 hits so nothing major. Later in the day I saw this number grow to 5000+

dev ops

Simple Serverless

While listening to a Kinda Funny Games Daily podcast, there was a comment about how difficult it is to recite a 12 digit Nintendo Friend Code over the air during the "Squad Up" segment of the show. This small complaint brought me

Bridging two houses to make one network

I am preparing to move out of my parent's house and wanted to help them find ways to lower their living expenses. My sister lives a couple of doors down the street and was wondering if I could link the houses to using one

dev ops

Serverless with AWS Lambdas

Create Function Author from scratch Name: myFunction Runtime: Node.js 6.10 Role: create new role from template Role name: lambdaRole Policy templates: Big Edge Lambda permissions The starter code is very simple. It gets a request of any kind and returns the string

movies

Suspending Disbelief to Enjoy Art: The Shape of Water

The Shape of Water was recently released on video and I have been telling everyone to watch it. When it originally came out in theaters, the movie was limited release

consumer advice

Google Home: Cast Everything

Just over a month ago I obtained my first Google Home Mini. As a user of virtually every Google product, I was really looking forward to learning how beneficial it could be. Starting off just listening to music using just voice control was great.

investing

Impatience vs Impulse

While talking to my friend and explaining my goals he described me as 'intensely focused' to a point where I am not enjoying living today. Adults in my age range seemly live to share how much fun they are living via various forms of

personal finance

Great Financial Podcasts

What are you doing when driving home? What are you doing while jogging? What are you doing while cooking dinner?! Trying listening to podcasts! They are a great way to intake news and learn about new topics. I have always had difficulty focusing enough

investing

Discovering the Costs of Opportunity

What is an 'Opportunity Cost' Opportunity cost refers to a benefit that a person could have received, but gave up, to take another course of action. Stated differently, an opportunity cost represents an alternative given up when a decision is made. This cost is,

personal finance

4 Tests That Signal You’re Financially Ready to Start Investing via LenPenzo.com

It is difficult to get on the right track without having hard goals set. Give yourself something to accomplish incrementally and have items you can check off. Save for emergencies. Pay off debt. Save for retirement. Invest. My ultimate goal today is: learn how

personal finance

Budgeting: Need a new laptop? Consider a Chromebook

As time goes on, the amount of time spent on the internet has increased. A UK study shows in 2005 the estimated number of hours spent on the internet was 9.9 hours and had sharply increased in 2014 to 20.5 hours. Anecdotally,

consumer advice

Budgeting: Lowering your phone bill

Data Usage Costs Data usage is the biggest expense for any phone bill. The more you become aware of what uses data; the more you can avoid using data. Android users can monitor data usage by going into Settings > [Under Wireless & Networks]

Neo

Do the Specs Matter: Neo & Scorpio

The discussion of Xbox Scorpio and Playstation Neo is at a high with the Neo announcement around the corner and expected release dates, for both, within the next year and

final fantasy

Modern Games Over Engineered?

I have recently been playing Final Fantasy IV (the PSP release) and have loved how it is structured. Being born in the 90s, I was not cognisant of system limitations and the effect it had on game design at the time. MegaMan had screens

Kinda Funny

The Game Awards' Trending Gamer: Greg Miller

The Game Awards show is not something I really care for or pay attention to but last night was an exception. Kinda Funny's very own Greg Miller, one-half of the coolest dudes in video games, was nominated for the Trending Gamer award. With rivals

Star Wars

Why I didn't buy Star Wars Battlefront: Multiplayer Only Games

Where do I find value? I remember days of years past, pre-ordering a game and rushing home to complete the story mode as soon as possible so when the conversations came up at school I was able to contribute. New guns, state of the