Software engineer, habitual tinkerer, gamer
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Blog Rewrite (V2)
Three years after my last rewrite of this blog, and having run my WordPress-based food site for two years, it was once again time to tackle my personal blog. The ease at which I could update my recipes and the power WordPress gave, combined with the basically-zero running costs of its serverless & static nature persuaded me I needed to do the same with my main blog.
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DIY Mini UPS
Recently our I was left with a spare, but rather degraded, lithium battery pack. I didn’t want to get rid of something which I could potentially put to good use somewhere else, so I came up with a plan – a DIY Mini UPS!
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Serverless Static WordPress
Getting the power of WordPress CMS without the costs of hosting with Serverless Static WordPress.
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Using AWS Fargate to improve lead times and quality
For those who missed the AWS User Group UK meetup in London last night, I spoke with my collegue Kouros about what we’ve been up to at The Times and how we’ve used AWS Fargate to help bring us some cool goodies whilst we develop.
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Upcoming Meetup: Using AWS Fargate to improve lead times and quality
Next week I’ll be copresenting a talk at the AWS User Group UK Meetup with my collegue Kouros. We’re going to be talking about our use of AWS Fargate to help power The Times website.
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React Native & GraphQL: Hard, but AWESOME!
In early December 2018 whilst I was out in Sofia I gave a talk to a meetup held at Questers around some of the tech stack I’m now involved with at News UK.
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Everything Serverless Podcast
I had a great chat with Edd Mann on the Three Devs and a Maybe podcast about Serverless, AWS and about how constraints in software development can be a good thing.
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Symfony UK Talk
For anyone who missed the Symfony UK meetup in London tonight, I spoke about getting started with Serverless PHP.
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Getting started with PHP serverless
As a full-time PHP developer that’s been following the serverless movement for quite some time, I’ve been stuck without an outlet to take advantage of Functions as a Service (FaaS).
