Blog

• Feb 28, 2026 Anti-Book Book club
• Feb 27, 2026 Supply Chain Irony
• Feb 26, 2026 Todoist Setup 2026
• Feb 25, 2026 Power Puttering
• Feb 15, 2026 Launch: Repowarden - AI-powered repository maintenance
• Aug 29, 2025 Thoughts on LLMs and AI
• Jun 25, 2025 Just launched, PlanPacer - The easiest way to add payment plans to your app using Stripe
• Jun 6, 2025 Book Notes - The Mezzanine
• Jan 9, 2025 Event Driven Architecture Rules of Thumb
• Jan 8, 2025 ClickOps and IaC - which are Pets and Cattle?
• Dec 12, 2024 Learning to Type Fast
• Nov 25, 2024 Allgood - Instant healthcheck webpage and API for JS/TS projects
• Oct 23, 2024 Vendor Lock-in is an Imaginary Problem
• Oct 21, 2024 DynamoDB Considered Harmful
• Aug 21, 2024 An engineers guide to the Solutions Architecture role
• May 7, 2024 Should I learn to code if AI will replace me?
• May 2, 2024 Components of a Great Architecture Diagram
• May 1, 2024 Set your time zone manually when in the Canary Islands
• Apr 26, 2024 AWS Summit 2024
• Mar 12, 2024 Markdown for Slides
• Mar 11, 2024 Cool Links from Around the Web
• Mar 10, 2024 Common phrases that probably aren't true
• Mar 9, 2024 Tips for Battling Alert Fatigue
• Jan 16, 2024 What people mean when they say - we do TDD
• Jan 3, 2024 11ty or Bust
• Dec 18, 2023 Lambda Warming is an Antipattern
• Aug 30, 2023 How to buy a car
• Aug 30, 2023 Business Version 2
• Aug 15, 2023 TIL - How to send an SQS message from a Lambda inside a VPC
• Jul 24, 2023 Pull Request Environments in GitHub Actions (with SST, AWS and Cloudflare pages)
• Jul 11, 2023 How Part Time has helped me in life
• Jun 21, 2023 Why are software companies so obsessed with doing anything but work?
• Jun 9, 2023 Lifehacks
• May 3, 2023 Setup a Repo in Github
• May 2, 2023 SQS, SNS, Eventbridge, DynamoDB - Chosing the right queue system in AWS
• Apr 28, 2023 Raising £1000 for MSF
• Mar 24, 2023 Whimsical Software
• Mar 23, 2023 Devblog - LoginLlama 001
• Mar 14, 2023 Rules of Thumb for creating API's
• Mar 9, 2023 Simple sites
• Mar 8, 2023 You can't fix engineering culture with communication
• Feb 28, 2023 The Cobra Effect and Software
• Feb 13, 2023 Five Things I Wish I learnt sooner
• Jan 20, 2023 Favourite Subreddits
• Jan 19, 2023 Albums I listened to in 2022
• Jan 18, 2023 Onebag
• Jan 4, 2023 Ten Software Architecture Rules of Thumb
• Jan 3, 2023 Book notes - The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
• Dec 14, 2022 Five books
• Dec 7, 2022 Book notes - Project Hail Mary
• Nov 16, 2022 What it takes to become a lead developer
• Nov 10, 2022 No Calendar
• Nov 2, 2022 Common objections to CI/CD and why they are wrong
• Oct 27, 2022 Get rid of your retrospective meetings
• Oct 6, 2022 Creating my own personal Instagram
• Oct 6, 2022 How to fix 'Public key authentication failed' for Azure DevOps
• Sep 28, 2022 Blog Roll
• Aug 31, 2022 Making the case for CI/CD
• Aug 2, 2022 Question your Rate limits
• Jul 28, 2022 Site Upgrades - Gatsby V4 and Webmentions
• Jul 4, 2022 The Culture of Estimations
• Jun 21, 2022 My journey with carpal tunnel
• Jun 14, 2022 Deeply Remove a Key from an Object
• Jun 8, 2022 Creating legacy code is ok
• May 24, 2022 Questions for Developers to ask at interviews
• May 22, 2022 Bookshelf
• Apr 26, 2022 There is always more
• Apr 12, 2022 Advancing from a Mid-Level to Senior Developer
• Mar 29, 2022 Quarterly planning for life
• Mar 22, 2022 Should I split my monolith into microservices?
• Mar 15, 2022 How to make changes as a Junior Developer
• Mar 10, 2022 Be friendly and don't ignore Recruiters
• Feb 15, 2022 Mistakes I made as a self-taught developer
• Feb 8, 2022 Building Collaboration with Remote Teams
• Jan 25, 2022 Facing the Legacy Code Monster
• Jan 18, 2022 How to Ship Software Faster
• Jan 11, 2022 Cache Auth0 M2M Tokens
• Jan 7, 2022 How You Work
• Jan 6, 2022 Maybe don't hire
• Jan 5, 2022 Software Beauty
• Aug 11, 2021 Continuous Delivery to ECS with Terraform
• Apr 29, 2021 Web Performance for Developers on a Deadline
• Apr 7, 2021 How to Run Sequelize Migrations in Azure Pipelines
• Mar 30, 2021 How to Improve Your Typing Speed
• Mar 25, 2021 Super Fast React/Node App Testing with GitHub Actions
• Mar 24, 2021 Solve Your Problems. Not Others.
• Mar 4, 2021 SpellcheckCI
• Feb 16, 2021 Setting up LightHouse CI for React in GitHub Actions
• Feb 15, 2021 So, You've Messed Up
• Feb 4, 2021 Shutdown Routine
• Feb 3, 2021 Resumé Red Flags
• Jan 31, 2021 My Advice on Become a Software Developer
• Jan 25, 2021 Cut to the Chase
• Jan 11, 2021 Redesigning my Site - Accessibility, Privacy and 100 PSI Scores
• Dec 10, 2020 Downloading your Favorite YouTube Playlist Automatically
• Sep 21, 2020 Using RDS Snapshots
• Sep 21, 2020 Improving Koru's API Performance
• Sep 4, 2020 Writing Useful Error Messages
• Aug 28, 2020 Building Awesome Application Health Checks
• Aug 24, 2020 ATS Resiliency
• Aug 20, 2020 Rebuilding a Monolith
• Jul 31, 2020 Re-architecting our PDF Generation
• Jul 31, 2020 Preserving Links whilst Migrating Domains with S3
• Jul 3, 2020 Why Backwards Compatibility is Critical
• Jun 26, 2020 Sharpening the Saw
• Jun 19, 2020 Lightning Fast ZSH Performance
• Jun 16, 2020 Personal Infrastructure
• Mar 9, 2020 How to use Private GitHub Packages on TravisCI
• Nov 14, 2019 How to Create a Pinned Gist Bot in 10 minutes with GitHub Actions
• Nov 11, 2019 Managing Application Secrets for Terraform across Teams
• Nov 8, 2019 Monitoring Git Leaks in Travis
• Oct 16, 2019 Signal vs Noise - Staying Up to Date
• Oct 9, 2019 Pentest Aftermath
• Oct 8, 2019 Resiliency
• Aug 29, 2019 Gatsby or Bust!
• Aug 16, 2019 A Guide to Leaving Your Job
• Jul 5, 2019 Lessons from Battling with Elasticsearch
• Mar 6, 2019 Using Grafana for Monitoring you NodeJS Apps
• Mar 5, 2019 Why does NTP Exist?
• Feb 26, 2019 Starting with Why as a Software Developer
• Jan 23, 2019 Architecting the Next Generation of Communication
• Jan 19, 2019 Resiliency By Design
• Dec 22, 2018 How to Run a Successful Tech Meetup — even if you’re forgetful
• Dec 4, 2018 I don’t know what to say…
• Nov 13, 2018 10 Things I wish I knew before giving my First Tech Talk
• Aug 11, 2018 Networking at Tech Meetups
• Jul 27, 2018 Tracking Goals in Todoist
• Jul 13, 2018 Lessons from Open Source
• May 30, 2018 The Art of Good Code Review
• May 16, 2018 Principles of Performance
• Apr 19, 2018 LinkedIn For Developers
• Mar 31, 2018 Solve 90% of Google Pagespeed Insights Issues in 30 Minutes
• Mar 26, 2018 📱 Zen iPhone
• Mar 5, 2018 Understanding PHP hatred
• Feb 26, 2018 What Tracking My Expenses for a Year Taught Me About Personal Finance
• Feb 14, 2018 Beginners Database Design Primer
• Feb 6, 2018 How to Attend Your First Programming Meetup
• Jan 23, 2018 Bulletproof Node — Security Best Practises
• Jun 28, 2017 How to Learn a Programming Language in Record Time
• Jun 23, 2017 What programming language should I learn: or Why it doesn’t matter