Reilly Wood

I’m a big fan of Pulumi, and I’ve previously used it for cloud infrastructure.

I spent a few weeks in August rewriting this website, and as promised here are the deets.

I’ve been building web UIs in Angular and React for the last few years, and I’ve started to greatly prefer React.

I recently read 2 papers that I’d highly recommend if you ever wonder about the underpinnings of modern relational databases: What Goes Around Comes Around (Stonebraker and Hellerstein, 2005) This is an opinionated history of database architectures from r…

I recently rewrote most of this website (more on that soon!)

I’m taking a self-funded sabbatical after 8 years of working full-time.

Here’s something I’ve found useful in SQL Server, but it should apply in any DBMS with checksum functions.

I recently overhauled the UI for my letter builder web app, switching from Bootstrap to a neat framework named Tailwind CSS.

I’ve recently been playing around with some cloud development tooling by a startup named Pulumi, and I thought I’d write up my first impressions.

In my spare time I have been mucking around with 2 big Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) offerings, AWS Lambda and Azure Functions.

Vancouver’s West End, 1966.

I recently built a web tool to solve a simple question that comes up often in urban planning: after taking setback requirements into account, how much of lot can be built on?

I’m a member of a nonprofit called Abundant Housing Vancouver, and as you can probably tell, I happen to do some programming too.

Over the past 10 years, I’ve spent a lot of time looking for apartments in both Vancouver and in Tokyo.

I’m building an interactive online map of all properties in Vancouver, and along the way there have been a few pleasant surprises.

Hi there - I’m Reilly Wood, a software developer from Vancouver, Canada.

Or: that time that Vancouver decided single-family zoning was more important than defeating Hitler Secondary suites (often just “basement suites”, or ADUs) are an everyday part of Vancouver neighbourhoods now.

Ask a random person what the purpose of zoning is, and they’ll probably mention that it keeps unpleasant or dangerous things away from homes.