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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 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