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Why I declined a CoderPad challenge, what happened when I did, and what the response revealed.

A weather report in 9,808 bytes

From 14 Nodes to 8 Without Breaking Production

A practical FinOps case study on replacing AWS NAT Gateways with FreeBSD NAT instances.

Using Comnoco to automate startup nonsense at scale.

Casting a critical eye over MCP for AI

Step by Step upgrading from 1.29 to 1.32.

Connecting GitHub Actions to AWS Using OIDC and an Assumed Role

Configuring Azure Entra ID to login to AWS

AWS Specific Tooling: Amazon Inspector

AWS Specific Tooling for DevSecOps

NPM Dependency Hell, trying to upgrade Gatsby

Tooling and Pipelines and Logs.

For me, this is the future.

Getting started with a relatively new AWS service

Focussing on knowledge sharing throughout the AWS Community

The process I went through to recover data off a dead macbook

Home/Office to VPC connectivity for a lower cost

Yesnaby.

I’ve been making things with Django since around 2009.

Multi-cloud Free Tiers

Moving this blog to the CLOUD!

Featuring Telegraf

Two factor all the things!

Featuring InfluxDB, Grafana and Arduinos

Protect all the things!

Update all the things!

A rule to live by

Part 5 of 5

Part 4 of 5

Part 3 of 5

Part 2 of 5

Part 1 of 5 all about Ansible

Know your IPsec from your OpenVPN

Is it all it's cracked up to be?

Here Be Dragons

Never.

Pesky things.

Build your own PBX for under $40

Too short for a full blog post

Interviews are not like hats

If it ain't broke, but isn't perfect, should it be fixed?

Notes on Interviews

A service that I've never used since

Blogposts age like fish

Building a website to handle thousands of views per minute, with zero budget

Wrapping up 2012

It's all fun and games until the raptor fences go down

So.. it transpires that I have a friend who studied Physics at Imperial College, and as a part of that, was taught how to use C++ “As a tool to help with computational physics”. - His words, not mine.

Automating the boring tasks