- 2026-06-124 minAI Is Bringing Mashups Back
A mashup is a term that became popular in the 2010s for applications that combined two or more data sources into a single user interface. Recently, I have seen a steady stream of AI-generated side projects, small apps, …
#062 - 2025-12-074 minHow I Work with AI Coding Agents
For anyone who has been following AI and software development, things are changing rapidly, this includes how we build software. Over the last few months, I have found myself going from working alone to working with an …
#061 - 2025-12-023 minWhy Connect RPC is a great choice for building APIs
Connect RPC is a suite of libraries which enable you to build HTTP based APIs which are gRPC compatible. It provides a bridge between gRPC and HTTP/1.1, letting you leverage HTTP/2’s multiplexing and performance …
#060 - 2025-11-164 minWhy OIDC?
Over the last few years there has been a push away from using machine identity for continuous integration (CI) agents, or runners, and instead use a more targeted, least privileged approach to authentication and …
#059 - 2024-04-114 minWhat you should consider when storing datasets in s3
As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) developer, I am often asked what is the best way to organise datasets in S3 . A dataset could comprise data exported by business systems, or data emitted by AWS services, such as …
#058 - 2023-12-284 minUsing a Monorepo to publish Lean Go Packages with Workspaces
As a developer who works with Go in my day-to-day development, I constantly struggle with third party packages or tools which bring in a lot of dependencies. This is especially true when you’re trying to keep your …
#057 - 2023-12-168 minGetting started with AI for developers
As a software developer, I have seen a lot of changes over the years, however few have been as drastic as the rise of artificial intelligence. There are a growing list of tools and services using this technology to help …
#056 - 2023-11-123 minAvoid accidental exposure of authenticated Amazon API Gateway resources
I have been working with Amazon API Gateway for a while and one thing I noticed is there are a few options for authentication, which can be confusing to developers, and lead to security issues. This post will cover one …
#055 - 2023-08-096 minRIP AWS Go Lambda Runtime
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is deprecating the go1.x runtime on Lambda , this is currently scheduled for December 31, 2023. Customers need to migrate their Go based lambda functions to the al2.provided runtime, which uses …
#054 - 2023-07-174 minStop using IAM User Credentials with Terraform Cloud
I recently started using Terraform Cloud but discovered that the getting started tutorial which describes how to integrate it with Amazon Web Services (AWS) suggested using IAM user credentials . This is not ideal as …
#053 - 2023-02-196 minAutomated Cloud Security Remediation
Recently I have been looking into automated security remediation to understand its impacts, positive and negative. As I am a user of AWS, as well other cloud services, I was particularly interested in how it helped …
#052 - 2022-07-233 minMy Development Environment
I was inspired by others to document the tools I use working as a software developer professionally, and hacking on side projects out side of work. One thing to note is in my day job I work on an Apple Mac, but my …
#051 - 2022-07-054 minDiving into AWS Billing Data
Billing is an integral part of day to day AWS account operation, and to most it seems like a chore, however there is a lot to be learnt interacting with AWS Billing data. So why would you ever want to dive into AWS …
#050 - 2021-04-264 minGitHub Actions supply chain attacks
There has been a lot of press about supply chain attacks recently, these type of attacks are nothing new and understanding them is really important for developers using services such as GitHub Actions , given Continuos …
#049 - 2020-10-086 minWhy isn't my s3 bucket secure?
We have all read horror stories of Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets being “hacked” in the popular media, and we have seen lots of work by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to tighten up controls and messaging around …
#048 - 2020-03-312 minAWS Events reading list
For some time now I have been working on internal, and some product related services which use AWS events, some of this has been paired with AppSync subscriptions , slack and AWS SNS . To help everyone come up to speed …
#047 - 2020-03-103 minStarting a Go Project
Given the changes with Go Modules I wanted to document a brief getting started for Go projects, this will focus on building a minimal web service. Before you start you will need to install Go, I recommend using homebrew …
#046 - 2020-03-104 minHow do I Structure my Go Project?
Assuming you read my Starting a Go Project post you should have the starting point for a minimal go web service. For your first project it is easier to keep all your code in one folder, in the base of your project, but …
#045 - 2019-12-224 minBuilding a WLToys A979 donkey car
In my spare time I spend a bit of time building and working on a scaled down self driving RC project which uses an opensource project called donkeycar . I have been through a few generations of car, learning how both the …
#044 - 2019-12-165 minGetting started with Cognito?
The AWS Cognito product enables developers to build web or API based applications without worrying about authentication and authorisation. When setting up an applications authentication I try to keep in mind a few goals: …
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