AWS CDK - you can't polish a turd

First there was clickops, then came CloudFormation, and now we have CDK. But can anything really polish the turd that is CloudFormation? AWS CloudFormation CloudFormation is an AWS service that lets you declaratively

birb.watch

After struggling to find a regular, Sydney-based bird watching group with a younger demographic, I’ve started my own. We’re only one month old, but have had four outings already! Come join

“Do not develop my app”

The trend of companies pushing their apps for you to do simple functionality that could’ve been delivered through a webapp is extremely annoying. I’ve noticed companies (like The Economist, Reddit) using

Airplay across multiple broadcast domains

Airplay is great and “just works” if all of your devices are on the same network. But if your device and TV are on separate broadcast domains, e.g. different VLANs, they will

Modding payWave into my Casio F-91W

Having gotten use to contactless payments from my Apple Watch, I wanted to mod my Casio to do the same. My bank offers PayTag (from Gemalto), shrunken down versions of a normal credit

Adopting a 💩

Today I learnt that you can sponsor Unicode Characters, so of course I sponsored the “Pile of Poo” emoji, U+1F4A9. Unicode thanks Leo Xiong, our newest Bronze Sponsor! #UnicodeSponsor https://t.co/

Getting free internet with a dish antenna

We rented an apartment in Auckland CBD that overlooked the University of Auckland, Law School. I thought it’d b nice if we could save ourself $100 a month of broadband bills by