Ian Carnaghan

Build a secure, config-driven personal VPN on AWS using WireGuard, CDK Python, and a Makefile, cheaper than a subscription with full control over your infrastructure.

A quiet double-billing renewal with zero warning prompted me to examine the reality of subscription inertia after many years with Parallels.

Quick reference for anyone coming from AWS to Azure and vice versa - to better understand equivelant services, terminology and general relationship between services of both.

React itself doesn't have a builtin middleware system.

React Error Boundaries are a must-have for any React based web application.

More migration fun - Moving the blog from Hugo to a React SPA using the Cloudscape Design System, deployed to AWS with CDK.

How I turned a simple Minecraft server into a full enterprise management platform on AWS using CDK, React, and Kiro.

I've recently started working through 100 Days of Code: The Complete Python Pro Bootcamp course on Udemy.

Exploring how Kubernetes schedules pods, with examples of taints, tolerations, affinity rules, and useful debugging commands.

How I simplified the deployment process of my Hugo-powered blog using GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages.

I've recently started studying for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam and as such I'm capturing some of my study notes here.

Over the last few years, several web design trends have exploded in popularity and different frameworks and libraries have emerged to support them.

If you’ve ever worked in a large enterprise environment, you know how quickly digital transformation can turn into notification fatigue.

Visual Composer is a draganddrop WordPress website builder that makes it easy for anyone to create beautiful layouts without touching any code.

TypeScript can be a confusing term for anyone new to JavaScript development.

AppWorks provides a handy feature for modeling business objects through the use of entities.

In an ever more global and connected world, knowing a foreign language is becoming a more valuable and necessary skill.

OpenText AppWorks is an application development platform that enables rapid creation of software designed to meet business problems.

The term "asynchronous" is often associated with JavaScript, which can be a confusing concept, especially for beginners.

A function is an organized block of code that is created for a specific task.