Unfinished Side Projects

tl;dr: It worked!

At serious risk of sounding like a heretic here, but I’m kinda bored of talking about AI.

Late last year, I made the conscious decision to start posting more of the stuff I make on the internet.

I went on a skiing holiday over the Christmas break.

I run Coolify on Hetzner to self(ish)-host all my side projects, toys and any other bits I want to put online.

Edit: This got way more attention than I was ever expecting.

Another little fix that’s taken me weeks to figure out.

Possible symptoms: My shower is too hot on the coldest setting.

Table of Contents Introduction The Challenge The Problem Scale / Shape of The Data Things that didn’t work Iteration 1: DynamoDB Iteration 2: Elasticsearch Iteration 3: Postgres The Data Pipeline Evolving The Database Schema Iteration 2: Materialised Colu…

This has bugged me a couple of times when setting up uploads directly from a client to DigitalOcean Spaces.

Another day, another interesting little bit of knowledge.

This has been plaguing me all day, so I’m saving some instructions here for future reference.

Alright, I’ll confess to you that I’m pretty deep into this project now so writing this blog post as if this is a fresh idea I just thought of seems a little disingenuous.

I’m starting a new project!

In my last post I talked about my background as both a manufacturing engineer and a software engineer.

I find it’s difficult to know where somebody is coming from unless you know their background.