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Cursed Knowledge

Aiden Vaines | Aug 13, 2025 |

The creators of the Immich photo hosting app have a page for Cursed Knowledge and the concept really resonated with me.

This blog post was not written by AI

Aiden Vaines | May 29, 2025 | AI

I read this piece from the BBC and Sabine Zetteler’s words — “Why would I bother to read something someone couldn’t be bothered to write” — really resonated with me.

Building a Simple Ecommerce Site with Hugo, Cloudflare Workers, and Square

Aiden Vaines | Oct 22, 2024 | JavaScript Cloudflare Serverless

I accidently picked up a new hobby after my partner gifted my dad and I a wood turning course/experience thing for Christmas 2023.

Platform Engineers hate these 5 simple patterns for packaging AWS Lambda functions

Aiden Vaines | Feb 25, 2024 | Terraform CICD AWS

There are many ways to manage cloud infrastructure and code we cram on it.

My obligatory GPT post

Aiden Vaines | Mar 29, 2023 | AI Bash

Seemingly everyone must now have a blog post about using ChatGPT, lets get on that band waggon.

A janky python alternative to Timeular using an Aqara cube from AliExpress

Aiden Vaines | Feb 20, 2023 | Python Jank

This little project stemmed from me seeing what looked like a fun idea but being a tight-arsed Yorkshireman.

Death to Bastion Hosts, long live Bastion Containers!

Aiden Vaines | Jan 11, 2023 | Terraform AWS

For a long time now most container based workloads and projects I have worked with have needed EC2 Bastion hosts for various reasons; as Fargate in particular has expanded features and general functionality those needs for an EC2 bastion hosts have been in decline.