Easy file sharing with S3 and Dropshare/ShareX

What we’re going to be doing Setting up a subdomain Setting up Amazon S3 Setting up: Preliminary Setup ShareX (Windows) DropShare (Mac) Setting up Amazon S3 If you already have an S3 Bucket created/setup, skip this section. Login to to your AWS Management Console. Go to Amazon S3. Create a new Bucket and take a note of the bucket name. Open bucket properties (in the top right) and add a bucket policy: { "Version":"2012-10-17", "Statement":[ { "Sid":"AddPerm", "Effect":"Allow", "Principal": "*", "Action":["s3:GetObject"], "Resource":["arn:aws:s3:::YOUR-BUCKET-NAME-HERE/*"] } ] } This bucket policy will make all of your uploads public.
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Blocking

I always find writing like walking up an endless flight of stairs and, as you reach the thousandth stair, using every ounce of energy to pull at your legs to move up just one more stair. Obviously I’m exaggerating, or using a bad metaphor, but what I mean is I have a hard time writing. I don’t think I’m bad at writing; I was a surprisingly good English student, I just .
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Monash Ninja: what, how, and the end result

What is Monash Ninja? Monash Ninja was week-long treasure-hunt-like event (14 Sept. to 21 Sept. 2015) run by Wired Monash. The concept and code was created by me (then Vice President) and the design for the website was created by Terence (then Secretary). I purchased the monash.ninja domain in April 2015 on a whim and then decided to come up with an idea for it. I had been thinking it would be fun for Wired to run a treasure hunt but thought it would be difficult to find participants as treasure hunts require effort for the hunters, but also for the organisers.
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