I’m a developer with a passion for cloud platforms, web development and automation!
I use this blog to write about my interests. They’re usually tech-related, but there’s also the odd music and gaming piece too.
With a little help from Buildkite, Mailgun and Cloudflare!
2020-03-22 // 6 min read // #automation #buildkite #cloudflare #mailgun
For the last while I’ve been collecting interesting articles, videos and music albums that I’ve liked into a newsletter. As a next step, I decided that I’d like to start emailing this newsletter out to a list of subscribers.
Going down the more challenging path that I always follow, I decided to roll my own system as a learning experience.
Cloudflare has a serverless offering, let's explore!
2020-03-02 // 11 min read // #cloudflare #javascript #serverless
You may have heard of Workers, a product from Cloudflare that lets you run JavaScript/WebAssembly in a serverless fashion on Cloudflare’s network.
I’ve been toying with them recently, and I thought it would be fun to share some of the uses I’ve come up with for them!
Buliding a service to validate Buildkite pipeline files
2019-12-27 // 11 min read // #buildkite
So I’ve been using Buildkite a bit lately and loving it. Last weekend I had the thought of building a service to validate the pipeline.yml files it uses for configuration.
My server would start up under a specific set of circumstances, but mysteriously failed otherwise...
2019-12-18 // 6 min read // #automation #ios-shortcuts #linux
Recently, I had an interesting debugging session with my Terraria server, which I’ve been working to automate.
This has been one of the more complex problems I’ve encountered and fixed, so I’m writing about it for others to learn from!
Running a Hacktoberfest workshop at Monash University
2019-10-20 // 7 min read // #open-source #presentations #reflections
Last week I had the opportunity to run a workshop with at Monash University in celebration of Hacktoberfest. The night itself focused on exploring open source software development. Exploring what open source software is, the implications it has for the world of software development and IT systems, and how contributions can be made. We also had a little security spin, examining how projects that are open source make tradeoffs in security.
You can find out the full rundown on the event at the workshop site.
