Working in enterprise situations, you hear a lot about build vs buy: is it cheaper to create an IT solution yourself, or buy-in a solution from a third-party? It’s not always down to cost, obviously – other factors apply like requirements, security, privacy, integration into other systems, the supplier’s financial solidity, etc. But ultimately, those…
So last night I did the cardinal sin: I committed my AWS access details to a public repo on Github. Fortunately, Github picked it up within a few minutes, and I immediately logged in and deleted those keys in AWS. I’ll fix the repo later. Two lessons learned: Don’t do it. As soon as you…
I thought I’d share a little bit about how I’m using integromat, as it contains a gotcha that I need to remember for the future, and a solution to that problem. I’m setting up a little newsletter called Ten Things I Found, in which I’ll share (wait for it…) 10 things I found on my journey…
How to handle errors is one of the things that as creators of IT solutions, I think we should spend some time thinking about. There are two parts to this though: How do you know when an error happens? What to do about it? This has been playing on my mind a bit recently, but…
I had an idea for something I could build quickly in Glide today, so I set about building it. The full story is on twitter here. What’s interesting about this is how quickly that was done. 45 minutes from creating the Google Sheet to having a working mobile app (well, a PWA). That’s pretty damn impressive….
I had an idea a while back, after seeing another report of a wide-spread WordPress hack being used. That idea was to stop using WordPress. So I looked at quite a few static site generators, as I still wanted an updating site (ie, a blog), and also fixed pages (like landing pages, subscription confirmation page,…
I’d originally set up this site a few months back, intending to use it to share my own thoughts and experiences on building in public, and also to promote a newsletter to share info about other creators starting their own build in public projects. However, just as I did so, the BIP space seemed to…
