I am a 9/11 survivor. Every year my mother calls to remind me what that day was like for her. Sixteen years ago I wrote about what surviving Tower 2 meant to me; twenty-five years on, I still think those words hold. A personal note, not a technical one.
Je suis un survivant du 11 septembre. Chaque année, ma mère m’appelle pour me rappeler ce que cette journée a représenté pour elle. Il y a seize ans, j’ai écrit ce que signifiait pour moi avoir survécu à la tour 2 ; vingt-cinq ans plus tard, ces mots sonnent encore juste. Un texte personnel, pas un article technique.
How and why BA Soapbox moved off Wix to a self-hosted Grav instance on Oracle Cloud's Always Free tier, provisioned with Terraform — the stack, the manual steps Terraform did not cover, and the networking, storage and billing surprises underneath it that ate a weekend.
First in the “Well You Ought To Know” series: a VBA macro that automates the month-end ritual of turning State Street's text files into ADI journal entries, cutting processing time and fat-thumb errors.