I’ve lost count the number of times I tried to start writing my own blog. They never really had a focus. I treated them as a diary of sorts, which contained way too personal information and therefore never got published anywhere but my own computer.

This time I’m determined!

I work at Cloudreach, a cloud consultancy, as a systems engineer. I get to use plenty of modern cloud technologies daily, but there are countless other systems, applications, methodologies, and cloud features that I don’t get chance to look at.

So this is my playground for tech I don’t get to use at work, cloud related or not. Some of the (incredibly broad) topics on my list include:

  • AWS’s Mobile Services, Game Development, and Developer Tools
  • Android
  • Application and network infosec

These are just topics ideas of course. I’ll have to see what takes my fancy as opportunities arise.

This website needs some improvements first. It runs on static site generator Hugo, because running a Wordpress site is definitely not on my list, and is hosted as an AWS S3 static site. My rough to-do list includes:

  • Add Site-wide and post graphics
  • Make a reasonably attractive homepage
  • Automatically publish to S3 AWS with git hooks & Lambda functions
  • HTTPS-only
  • All configured and deployed with CloudFormation

Let’s go!