Hi there, I'm Nicholas!
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.
An opportunity to write about the cool components of a hobby project
2020-04-20 //
10 min read
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#django
#docker
#gitlab
#react
#reflections
Just shy of two years ago (judging by the initial commit on a private repo), I started a little project called Mellophone.
It was a pet project to consolidate what I’d learned from working as a developer.
The domain registration for mellophone.pink expires tomorrow, and I won’t be renewing it.
As a little farewell, I figured this would be a good opportunity to delve into some of the workings behind it.
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The unexpectedly lengthy story about improving one line in a script
2020-04-14 //
6 min read
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#rsync
Recently I’ve grown to love using rsync, a tool for transferring files between local and remote destinations.
I hit a bit of a snag though recently when improving an rsync command in the script to deploy my website, so what better opportunity to write about it?
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With a little help from Buildkite, Mailgun and Cloudflare!
2020-03-22 //
6 min read
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#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.
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Cloudflare has a serverless offering, let's explore!
2020-03-02 //
11 min read
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#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!
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Buliding a service to validate Buildkite pipeline files
2019-12-27 //
11 min read
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#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.
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