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

I accidentally picked up a new hobby after my partner gifted my dad and I a wood turning …

Aiden Vaines | Oct 22, 2024 | JavaScript Cloudflare Serverless
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Leeds Digital Festival: AI: Stop Talking, Start Doing!

I spoke at and helped design a workshop for this years Leeds Digital Festival; everyone seems to be …

Aiden Vaines | Sep 18, 2024 | Talks
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Notts Techfast: Taming the AWS Lambda Deployment Jungle of Packaging Patterns

I’ll be talking at the upcoming Nottingham’s TechFast on the 15th of May 2024 on an …

Aiden Vaines | Apr 24, 2024 | Talks
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Platform Engineers hate these 5 simple patterns for packaging AWS Lambda functions

There are many ways to manage cloud infrastructure and code we cram on it. In working with projects …

Aiden Vaines | Feb 25, 2024 | Terraform CICD AWS
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