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- 2026-09-04 Hard Problems in Serverless Computing - Rate Limiting
Even the Panama Canal has rate-limiting - 2026-09-03 AI and Grand Theft IP
Go to college. Then you can rip people off and get paid for it. It’s called Capitalism. - 2026-09-02 On LLMs and RPGs
If we can use a d6 to make random choices, why not a trillion dollar text generator? - 2026-08-12 A Man, A Can, A Planamanamanal
Revisiting my favourite clusterfuck - 2026-08-11 Stuck in Some Glue
Let's poke this AWS product and see what happens - 2026-07-22 Another Collection Audit
Now with shiny new fun auditing technology - 2026-07-10 Now Listen Claude, Just Cause You're Smarter Than Me Doesn't Mean You Know Everything!
My first foray into AI - 2026-07-03 The Wishy-Washy World of Wa-Tor
More like a fish tank than a cellular automaton - 2026-06-19 Welcome Back, Me
Also a feature to help with maths trades - 2026-05-06 Leveled Up
+1 Angular AND -1 kilogram! - 2026-04-30 Visions of the Future
Sure enough, the lift had shot right up through the roof of the factory and was now rising into the sky like a rocket, and the sunshine was pouring in through the glass roof. - 2026-04-17 The Catalist
It was a globe with a thousand facets; it shone like silver in the firelight, like water in the sun, like snow under the stars, like rain upon the Moon! - 2026-03-29 Tagging Along
Introducing the Tagalogue - 2026-03-19 How Important Are Designers?
Would you swap, say, Peter Hawes, for David and Phil Harding? - 2026-03-12 Making Movies
I'll mention you all in my acceptance speech at the Academy Awards - 2026-03-06 The X-Factor
The trials and tribulations of implementing a recommendation system - 2026-02-23 I can haz RSS!
One should write sensible post summaries for the RSS people - 2026-02-23 Odd Socks
Just another rant about websockets, but this time with a happy ending - 2026-02-19 Websockets
Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon! - Timon of Athens - 2026-02-03 Selectors Revisited
God say you can do what you want Abe, but... - 2026-01-30 What Fresh Hell is This?
Finances Friday pays off again - 2026-01-28 Wiser Now
No, seriously, what are the odds I got dumber? - 2026-01-27 Happy Birthday, Gray
Happy birthday to you, did you do a poo? - 2026-01-16 Finances Friday Again
Also, a review of improvements to the system - 2026-01-09 Observability Friday
Dark matter and dark energy are two things we measure in the universe that are making things happen, and we have no idea what the cause is. - Neil deGrasse Tyson - 2026-01-09 The Plays By Year Table
A new feature, thanks to Tom - 2025-12-27 Finances Friday
I'll be a grown-up one day, probably - 2025-12-27 Unnecessary Commentary
It was a holiday, alright, I was just having fun - 2025-12-10 The downloader turned a corner
Sometimes things do work like they're supposed to - 2025-12-05 Technical Stuff
I'll do some pretty complicated stuff to avoid paying money - 2025-11-28 Rate Limits Drive Me Nuts
Ponderings on fitting 173 square pegs into 48 round holes - 2025-11-25 And Another Thing! About API Gateway
More techie stuff about how to get API Gateway to do what you want - 2025-11-20 Advice on Passwords
Why you should not reuse passwords - 2025-11-19 Technology is all about Humans
Technology isn't immune to human weakness - 2025-11-07 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Unsolicited opinions on how the serverless TypeScript development experience has evolved - 2025-10-29 Bloggish!
Why I am writing my own blog implementation - 2025-10-28 On API Gateway and CloudFront
Technical details of integrating API Gateway and CloudFront - 2025-10-28 Welcome Back to Extended Stats!
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