Prompt Driven Development; BDD but shift-left-y-er
Déjà Vu in the IDE Every few years the industry seems to come back to the same idea with a fresh lick of paint.
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Cursed Knowledge
The creators of the Immich photo hosting app have a page for Cursed Knowledge and the concept really resonated with me.
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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 something someone couldn’t be bothered to write” — really resonated with me.
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Building a Simple Ecommerce Site with Hugo, Cloudflare Workers, and Square
I accidently picked up a new hobby after my partner gifted my dad and I a wood turning course/experience thing for Christmas 2023.
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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.
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My obligatory GPT post
Seemingly everyone must now have a blog post about using ChatGPT, lets get on that band waggon.
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A janky python alternative to Timeular using an Aqara cube from AliExpress
This little project stemmed from me seeing what looked like a fun idea but being a tight-arsed Yorkshireman.
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Death to Bastion Hosts, long live Bastion Containers!
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.
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How I See Troubleshooting
When I’ve been involved in an incident or dragged in to one of those “if we get enough people involved one of them might know” calls, one of the first things that usually catches my attention is the lack of solid troubleshooting that’s gone on.
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An odd AWS EFS & Terraform AWS pagination issue
I know the AWS CLI is different to the AWS CDK used by the provider and the two are not the same.
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