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Make The Internet Fun Again

Make The Internet Fun Again

Aiden Vaines | Sep 22, 2026 | Thought Leadership AI Retrospective Tinfoil Hat
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Sunk Cost Fallacy as a Feature

Sunk Cost Fallacy as a Feature

Aiden Vaines | Jul 20, 2026 | Thought Leadership Cloud AI
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New Shiny AWS FinOps Toys?

New Shiny AWS FinOps Toys?

Aiden Vaines | Jun 21, 2026 | Thought Leadership Cloud FinOps DevOps
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¡Hola, soy DORA. Why hasn’t AI improved my metrics?

¡Hola, soy DORA. Why hasn’t AI improved my metrics?

Aiden Vaines | May 9, 2026 | Thought Leadership AI DevOps Delivery
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The Comforting Lie Of SHA Pinning

The Comforting Lie Of SHA Pinning

Aiden Vaines | Mar 24, 2026 | Thought Leadership Security Supply Chain GitHub Actions Security
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Preparing for Quantum Computers That May or May Not Exist

Preparing for Quantum Computers That May or May Not Exist

Aiden Vaines | Mar 23, 2026 | Thought Leadership Quantum AWS Cryptography Security
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Terraform Six Years On (Retrospective)

Terraform Six Years On (Retrospective)

Aiden Vaines | Mar 2, 2026 | Thought Leadership IAC Terraform Retrospective
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JPEG Compression, but for Thought: AI as Clear-Text Encryption

JPEG Compression, but for Thought: AI as Clear-Text Encryption

Aiden Vaines | Jan 26, 2026 | Thought Leadership AI Tinfoil Hat
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AI Site Generator - Outsourcing (Too Much) Responsibility to AI

AI Site Generator - Outsourcing (Too Much) Responsibility to AI

Aiden Vaines | Jan 5, 2026 | Ai Aws Python Things
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Prompt Driven Development; BDD but shift-left-y-er

Prompt Driven Development; BDD but shift-left-y-er

Aiden Vaines | Nov 8, 2025 | Thought Leadership AI
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Building a Simple Ecommerce Site with Hugo, Cloudflare Workers, and Square

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

Aiden Vaines | Oct 22, 2024 | JavaScript Cloudflare Serverless
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Platform Engineers hate these 5 simple patterns for packaging AWS Lambda functions

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

Aiden Vaines | Feb 25, 2024 | Terraform CICD AWS
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Death to Bastion Hosts, long live Bastion Containers!

Death to Bastion Hosts, long live Bastion Containers!

Aiden Vaines | Jan 11, 2023 | Terraform AWS

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The Comforting Lie Of SHA Pinning

In March 2026, Trivy became the latest reminder that software supply chains are, at best, loosely …

Aiden Vaines | Mar 24, 2026 | Thought Leadership Security Supply Chain GitHub Actions Security
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Preparing for Quantum Computers That May or May Not Exist

In my day-to-day life as a Platform Engineer I find I spend an unusual amount of time thinking about …

Aiden Vaines | Mar 23, 2026 | Thought Leadership Quantum AWS Cryptography Security
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Terraform Six Years On (Retrospective)

Back in 2019 when I started at BJSS as a fairly junior Platform Engineer I was first introduced to …

Aiden Vaines | Mar 2, 2026 | Thought Leadership IAC Terraform Retrospective
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JPEG Compression, but for Thought: AI as Clear-Text Encryption

There seems to be a current trend happening corporate and professional communications - looking at …

Aiden Vaines | Jan 26, 2026 | Thought Leadership AI Tinfoil Hat
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AI Site Generator - Outsourcing (Too Much) Responsibility to AI

Static Site Generators are good, but what if they were more gooder?

Aiden Vaines | Jan 5, 2026 | Ai Aws Python Things
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