Stockholm? Why won’t you make it stop
I’m a little impressed that the Foo Fighters almost sung about this.
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Lock, stock, and an unsmoked wallet
I’m the kind of person that finds stocks, shares, and financial instruments interesting. If I didn’t go in to tech, I still probably wouldn’t have gone in to...
Thirty years
Kicking off a New Year, I’m not really one for making resolutions. If I want to do something, or change something, I don’t see why I should wait for it. Mayb...
What does the console actually do?
The AWS Console is in my opinion a cornerstone of the AWS ecosystem. Some laud it’s simplicity, some rank it at the bottom for usability. Undoubtedly, it’s ...
Roaming around with Sonos
Music is a massive part of my home. There are more hours where music is played than where music isn’t played, and yes even when sleeping there is music. Or a...
CD-Okay that’s how you do custom resources
Recently I’ve needed to use [CDK Custom Resources][cdk-custom-resources] and they’re slightly different from traditional CloudFormation Custom Resources. The...
Parameters, please
A great friend recently asked if I could help an individual in the CDK slack channel. This individual had a DynamoDB table in one CDK stack and wanted to dep...
New trainers
After 15 months of wearing my trainers three to four times a week for BODYCOMBAT, The Trip, and then in lockdown GRIT, BODYPUMP, even short runs, they asked...
Nostalgia
It’s time for my annual post… just over a year since my last one. And wow, what a year and a bit it has been. I thought with the pandemic I’d have written mo...
Bastions on AWS
Sometimes your services and platforms on AWS still require you to have a network, even when you’re serverless. For the platform at work my team is responsibl...
On the range with CloudWatch Alarms 🚨
Recently at work I wanted a CloudWatch alarm that only fired when a metric value was between two other values; trying to be clever with CPU alarms. Looking a...
A whale in the alpine forests…
It all started on a bright Friday afternoon, I’d seen Jess Frazelle’s post about closing pull requests/patch requests when they’re just not quite right (The ...