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When MFA first arrived, Authy became my tool of choice for codes.

I drink a lot of coffee and I keep forgetting which bags were worth reordering.

Since going generally available in 2019, GitHub Actions has cemented itself in the development zeitgeist.

LLMs have totally transformed the way I work and create new products.

There's a comment on Hacker News about Netflix that I keep coming back to: Company starts Makes things better to get a larger market share Gets a mini-monopoly (large enough share that inertia and name recognition can preserve its market share) Slowly but…

Recently I've had to delve into a lot of legacy products to understand how we can migrate them to a newer, more modern stack.

I launched Repowarden about three months ago.

Online shopping is fantastic.

The Anti-book book club started as an excuse to meet with friends every month or two.

There is a certain irony that large organisations carry out a myriad of checks, due diligence, impact assessments, contract reviews and more for any and all business they themselves do business with.

I’ve used Todoist for almost a decade and completed over 50,000 tasks on there.

You know those tiny jobs you never think to do until you’re sat on the loo with no paper?

Today I am launching Repowarden, an AI-powered repository maintenance tool.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. - Dune LLMs have been with us for a while now, and the rate that they evolve continues to accelerate.

I launched a new microsaas - PlanPacer!

Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine is ostensibly about nothing.

Event driven architectures are a fantastic mechanism for powering decoupled services.

Ancient history tells us that a peoples known as the "sysadmins" or "web masters" used to manually configure servers via the archaic command line.

Typing is the conduit by which thoughts flow via the keyboard to the computer.

Over the weekend, I shipped a new open source project - allgood.

Vendor lock-in is often cited as a reason to chose on-premise hosting, or to be mindful of "avoiding" it when using the cloud (whatever that means).

I think DynamoDB is quite a useful database.

For the past couple of years, I've worked as a solutions architect.

In the past few years, AI has gone from a nerdy pipe dream to reality.

Info - key, author, legend, version history Flow diagrams VPC and markings Services wrapped up Understand the different scopes - overarching be more general "image service" but a more indepth diagram would include the components or even the classes of that

On a recent vacation to the Canary Islands, I decided to book a romantic evening at a sea side restaurant for my wife and I.

I was fortunate this year to attend the AWS Summit at London's ExCeL.

Working in tech, if you wanted to "share your knowledge" chances are you used Powerpoint to create a presentation.

Despite web search providing an interface to a wealth of human knowledge, one thing that it can't crack is finding cool stuff.

There are a litany of common phrases that are found on lots of packaging and in marketing materials.

When your first outage happens, alerting and monitoring becomes top priority.

Test-driven development is that - test-driven.

It’s been four years since I last did any major work to my site.

At a certain stage during most monolith to microservice migrations, teams that choose to migrate to Lambda often encounter a classic problem: cold starts.

I have been working as a software engineer for 8 years.

Recently, I purchased a new-to-me (used) car.

Sending a message to SQS from a Lambda inside a VPC should be trivial.

Pull request environments are a useful tool to have in your CI/CD pipeline.

Part time working has been the best career move I've ever made.

Recently, my favourite time building software I've ever had has been developing Loginllama.

Inspired by https://guzey.com/lifehacks/ Last updated: 2023-06-09 you'll get far more benefit from reading books than anything on the web Be cautious of people who overcomplicate things be requirements led ask good questions time spend configuring a system

I end up creating quite a few repos in Github for customer projects.

AWS has so many different queuing services.

TL;DR I'm raising money for Medicins Sans Frontiers by running my first half marathon.

Software takes itself too seriously.

I'm starting work on a new SaaS!

Building good software often starts by having good principles upon which to design it upon.

I saw a tweet the other day from Dan Rowden that hit on a class of software I really love.

It always bothers me that people say that "communication" is the problem in engineering organisations.

We like to focus on inputs, not outputs.