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Backstory of the PC build

My wife and I had ordered some new lamps for our bedroom, when we got a package that had everything BUT our new lamps! After opening the box, I found there was a VERY nice graphics card inside, especially during the graphics card price hike we’ve been seeing going on.

Needless to say, after contacting the company about the mistake, we were apologized to, and told to keep the contents of the package we had received..

After months of this graphics card, an AMD Radeon RX 6900XT had been sitting in my office, and a few awesome birthday gifts. I ended up finally getting to start a new PC build!

Build List:

• AMD Ryzen 5900x
• RX 6900 XT
• 64 GB DDR4 3200 mhz
• 850GT EVGA Power Supply
• Strix B550-F Gaming Mobo
• 2TB NVME SSD 970 Evo

Ended up going with Birch Butcher block from Home Depot. Long piece is 72″ x 25″, and short piece is 48″ x 25″.

Using a coat of oil based wood stain, and 3 coats of polyurethane, light sanding in between coats with 320 grit sand paper. I finished up by letting the final coat dry for 24 hours, and did a final wet sanding with 2000 grit sand paper to smooth out the finish completely.

Powershell script that enables you to call out to AWS API Gateway on a given node.

$apiGatewayEndpoint = "apiGatewatyId i.e. m123abc2d1"
$region = "us-west-2"

function HmacSHA256($message, $secret)
{
    $hmacsha = New-Object System.Security.Cryptography.HMACSHA256
    $hmacsha.key = $secret
    $signature = $hmacsha.ComputeHash([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes($message))

    return $signature
}

function getSignatureKey($key, $dateStamp, $regionName, $serviceName)
{
    $kSecret = [Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes(("AWS4" + $key).toCharArray())
    $kDate = HmacSHA256 $dateStamp $kSecret;
    $kRegion = HmacSHA256 $regionName $kDate;
    $kService = HmacSHA256 $serviceName $kRegion;
    $kSigning = HmacSHA256 "aws4_request" $kService;

    return $kSigning
}

function hash($request)
{
    $hasher = [System.Security.Cryptography.SHA256]::Create()
    $content = [Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($request)
    $bytes = $hasher.ComputeHash($content)

    return ($bytes|ForEach-Object ToString x2) -join ''
}

function GETAPIGatewayResponse($nodeIp, $request) {
    $br = [regex]::Unescape('\u000a')

    #$access_key = aws configure get aws_access_key_id --profile $credName
    #$secret_key = aws configure get aws_secret_access_key --profile $credName
    
    $now = [DateTime]::UtcNow
    $amz_date = $now.ToString('yyyyMMddTHHmmssZ')
    $datestamp = $now.ToString('yyyyMMdd')
    $service = "execute-api"
    $method = "GET"

    $apiGatewayId = $apiGatewayEndpoint

    $host1 = "$($apiGatewayId).execute-api.$($region).amazonaws.com"

    $signed_headers = 'host'
    $credential_scope = $datestamp + '/' + $region + '/' + $service + '/' + 'aws4_request'

    $canonical_querystring = ''
    $canonical_querystring = 'X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256'
    $canonical_querystring += '&X-Amz-Credential=' + [uri]::EscapeDataString(($access_key + '/' + $credential_scope))
    $canonical_querystring += '&X-Amz-Date=' + $amz_date
    $canonical_querystring += '&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=' + $signed_headers

    $canonical_headers = 'host:' + $host1 + $br

    $canonical_request = $method + $br
    $canonical_request += "/test/host/" + $nodeIp + "/" + $request + $br
    $canonical_request += $canonical_querystring + $br
    $canonical_request += $canonical_headers + $br
    $canonical_request += $signed_headers + $br
    $canonical_request += hash -request ""

    $algorithm = 'AWS4-HMAC-SHA256'

    $canonical_request_hash = hash -request $canonical_request
    $string_to_sign = $algorithm + $br
    $string_to_sign += $amz_date + $br
    $string_to_sign += $credential_scope + $br
    $string_to_sign += $canonical_request_hash

    $signing_key = getSignatureKey $secret_key $datestamp $region $service
    $signature =  HmacSHA256 -secret $signing_key -message $string_to_sign
    $signature = ($signature|ForEach-Object ToString x2) -join ''

    $canonical_querystring += '&X-Amz-Signature=' + $signature

    $request_url = "https://" + $host1 + "/test/host/" + $nodeIp + "/" + $request + "?" + $canonical_querystring

    Write-Host "Request: $($request), RequestUrl: $($request_url)"

    $StandardHeaders = @{
        "Accept"="application/json"
        "Content-Type"="application/json"
    }
   
    $apiGatwayResponse = Invoke-WebRequest -Method GET -Headers $StandardHeaders -Uri $request_url

    if([int]$apiGatwayResponse.StatusCode -ge 200 -AND [int]$apiGatwayResponse.StatusCode -lt 300) {
        #do something with response
    } else {
        Write-Host "Request to $($request_url) failed"
    }
}

GETAPIGatewayResponse -nodeIp "127.0.0.1" -request "api/endpoint"

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