Many Day Ones

Sat Jul 13 2024
Reading Time: ~ 6 mins

This week marked my second week ex-AWS. Over the past year, I've been preparing, saving and hyping myself up for the road I've committed to. I'll be going on alone and starting... something. Although there's a degree of nervousness about my uncertain future, it's been overwhelmed by an eagerness for adventure, excitement & a quest for learning that will become...

Conditionally create an EBS volume using a snapshot

Fri Aug 19 2022
Reading Time: ~ 10 mins

I'm a big fan of the AWS CDK and I've been using it a lot over the last few month while building out projects. One challenge I recently encountered was creating a volume based on some deploy-time parameter in AWS CloudFormation. The idea was to create a volume given a snapshot ID. If the snapshot ID was `default` I'd create...

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Working with Startups

Fri Jul 01 2022
Reading Time: ~ 5 mins

I've been thinking. Not just today, or this week, but all of this year and a bit of last - and to my knowledge I've never done it as much as now. The real question on my mind is no different than any other just-turned-thirty year old: where to go next....

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