Replacing the batttery in your 2012-2015 Macbook Pro is not as impossible as you've been told. The battery is glued in. This is not an impossible problem!

It's late, you're working on a pet project, and have to work in the morning: code is guaranteed to take longer to compile, and will generally fail with an irritating environmental error.

Create a Left4Dead2 disposable dedicated server with a $0.015/hr Linode instance. Follow my directions to automatically generate a secured and updated centos linux server in the cloud.

Free SSL is available for your server from letsencrypt.org. It has become even more important for every website to deliver it's content over SSL. This full how-to walks you step-by-step on CentOS 7 Linux.
1. Install Letsencrypt
2. Generate an SSL Certificate
3. Configure Apache to use SSL

Over the holidays, the linode infrastructure was attacked. I was testing Splunk at the time. I'd opened SSH in the firewall to capture logs into Splunk. My linode VPS was under constant attack during this period. Let's analyze the logs of the attack with Splunk!

A list of all usernames used during a brute-force attack of this server over the holidays. Data was easily generated using Splunk lite.