Matthew Lewis

Jan 11 2026

Small win from the CRTC

(Last updated: January 11th, 2024 at 12:29pm)

The world has not been filled with good news lately, but at least this is one. The CRTC has declined to …

Jun 02 2025

NSPower Cybersecurity Incident

Here we go again, no fault of of mine, the 3rd or 4th time my identity and so many details …

Apr 13 2025

Not everything needs to be an app

After the announcement and funding from the Nova Scotia government for the new "Power of Attorney" mobile app. I felt …

Nov 22 2024

End of an Era - Goodbye Dad

I don't normally share a digital glimpse into my real-world personal life, but this week has been the hardest I’ve …

Jul 19 2024

Happy International Bluescreen Day!

Today, many organizations, system administrators and regular people woke up to a wild Friday. Crowdstrike pushed a faulty update to their …

Jul 01 2024

PHP-FPM CPUQuota

Was doing some experimenting with setting the PHP-FPM service to a maximum of 90% using the CPUQuota=90% setting in the …

Jan 20 2024

Matt's List of Boycotted Companies

(Last updated: January 27th, 2024 at 1:42pm)

I figured I would start a list of companies that I will no longer support or purchase from. To get things …

Dec 16 2023

PHP 8.2 XDebug Issue

Working on a SaaS project developed in PHP 8.2 that was put on pause for a months. I copied some …

Jun 19 2023

First Camping Trip of 2023

Ace and I spent the weekend up in the Cape Breton Highlands National Park at Broad Cove Campground. Dylan, Danielle …

May 12 2023

We Won! - Spark Nova Scotia

Each year a competition runs where people pitch their ideas to a team of judges to win some money to …

Apr 16 2023

Don't Make Me Think

Great summary by Chester Grant of the book Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug. I actually own a copy of …

Mar 11 2023

Beware of Domain Slamming

Recently, I've become aware of more instances of scammers using a tactic against our clients called "domain slamming". There are …

Dec 31 2022

Happy New Year

Just want to wish everyone who finds this a happy new year and nothing but good things to happen in …

Jul 16 2022

zwavejs2mqtt database lock error

Quick note for anyone who is running an instance of zwavejs2mqtt to control their zwave devices through docker. After a …

Apr 12 2022

Custom Error Pages with Nginx

While revamping some of our VPS we use to host some client websites I found a strange issue with nginx …

Jul 11 2021

HomeAssistant with Vultr API

HomeAssistant is an amazing open source solution to automate the digital aspects of your life and living space. They have …

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