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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
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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 creators of the Immich photo hosting app have a page for Cursed Knowledge and the concept really …

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A Unix Tree command - but for S3!

I was trying to visualise some S3 buckets for a cost optimisation exercise and wanted to be able to …

Aiden Vaines | Jun 6, 2025 | Aws Cli Javascript Project Things Tool
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This blog post was not written by AI

I read this piece from the BBC and Sabine Zetteler’s words — “Why would I bother to read …

Aiden Vaines | May 29, 2025 | AI
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A sort of golf related game about synonyms.

I’ve been trying to think of a small game idea I could build as a way of playing with React …

Aiden Vaines | May 15, 2025 | Things Javascript Code
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AWS User Group: Taming the AWS Lambda Deployment Jungle of Packaging Patterns

A talk so good, I’m doing it again! this time at the Leeds & Your AWS User Group, hosted …

Aiden Vaines | Mar 20, 2025 | Talks
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