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Cloud, mainly AWS. Dev/SecOps features highly in my work life. Away from a keyboard, it’s sports, dog walking, growing things and couch warming that top my list. mccracken.cloud

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JetBrains GoLand IDE showing sqlite3 bindings written in Go.

JetBrains GoLand IDE showing sqlite3 bindings written in Go.

I'm still writing code the hard way. I'm slow. I like to think critically about every line of code and fiddle with variable names until everything looks right. I treat code as a liability and try to ship only what's necessary.

It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.

01.02.2026 02:52 👍 847 🔁 93 💬 28 📌 15

Brilliant article, thanks for the time and effort spent on it.

18.11.2025 06:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

I don't buy the AI narrative around prosperity for all. There is plenty of money to go around yet it tends to flow to the top. I can't imagine a world where those in control of AI, assuming it actually works, will resist charging an ever increasing subscription fee cementing the haves and have nots.

27.10.2025 18:32 👍 304 🔁 52 💬 7 📌 3
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AWS IAM Roles Anywhere Demo Introduction IAM user access keys are the normal way to access AWS from an external...

Finally got my finger out and created a new blog post covering setting up IAM Roles Anywhere as a more secure and manageable solution to AWS IAM access keys.

dev.to/johnmccuk/aw...

24.08.2025 19:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Guardrails for Your Cloud: A Simple Guide to OPA and Terraform Introduction: Why We Need Policy Gates

Nice article on introducing guardrails to Terraform.

medium.com/@er.samibane...

07.05.2025 16:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

04.04.2025 21:00 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2

That’s a blast from the past!

18.03.2025 19:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The most shameful day for the United States of America in any of our lifetimes.

28.02.2025 18:28 👍 2221 🔁 464 💬 128 📌 51
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The Apple Polishing Cloth has received an over-the-air (OTA) update and is now fully compatible with the iPhone 16E.

19.02.2025 18:45 👍 224 🔁 13 💬 11 📌 3

So Canada promises to do a bunch of stuff it was mostly already doing.

And despite raging and screaming for months about the U.S. trade deficit with Canada, Trump gets NO concessions on trade. Nothing.

Just theater. Very stupid and expensive theater that damaged US relations with a key ally.

03.02.2025 21:49 👍 175 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 1
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Can’t argue with facts 🤣

26.01.2025 15:06 👍 512 🔁 91 💬 8 📌 14
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Pippa doing her bit for the clean up #StormEyown

25.01.2025 12:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I fear it probably means upgrade your subscription

22.01.2025 18:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The AWS Management Console now supports simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts - AWS Discover more about what's new at AWS with The AWS Management Console now supports simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts

Finally, this is long overdue. Although no doubt it will just enable me to make more mistakes...

aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

16.01.2025 19:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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re:Invent re:Cap - VIRTUAL, Thu, Jan 16, 2025, 1:00 PM | Meetup Missed re:Invent or overwhelmed by the sheer number of announcements? We've got your back. Join us for this VIRTUAL EVENT where we walk through the most exciting re:Invent

This Thursday, don't miss @darko.rup12.net giving an awesome vitual re:Cap virtually. Register on MeetUp: www.meetup.com/amazon-web-s... #aws

14.01.2025 21:56 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Get started with Copilot Free in VS Code
Get started with Copilot Free in VS Code YouTube video by Visual Studio Code

PSA: @github.com copilot is now free in @vscode.dev!!

youtu.be/X_Aet9ndh_Y?...

19.12.2024 20:27 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Glasgow Science Centre on the banks of the Clyde was looking very festive this eveninng.

#glasgow #pacificquay #glasgowsciencecentre #xmas2024 #architecture #glasgowbuildings #glasgowatnight #nightphotography

13.12.2024 18:23 👍 44 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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It's hard to believe this game is 31 years old today. Happy Birthday DOOM. Absolutely legendary.

10.12.2024 17:23 👍 168 🔁 21 💬 11 📌 4
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An orchard of Apple stickers. I shudder to think how much all this cost 😅

08.12.2024 11:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Architects, Anti-Patterns, and Organizational Fuckery I recently wrote a twitter thread on the proper role of architects, or as I put it, tongue-in-cheek-ily, whether or not architect is a “bullshit role”. It got a LOT of reactions (2.5 we…

One of my favorite things in the world is when software architects come up to me and tell me how much they enjoyed my piece about how "software architect" is such a bullshit role at most companies.

I love you guys.

charity.wtf/2023/03/09/a...

07.12.2024 22:12 👍 155 🔁 21 💬 15 📌 3

Your regularly scheduled reminder that any result you get from AI will always be a guess.

If you *can* calculate or compute the answer, you probably should; it will be faster, cheaper, and far more accurate.

But some problems you *can't* really calculate or compute -- in which case, guess away.

02.12.2024 05:44 👍 31 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 0
A set of railroad tracks with parts of them set on fire as a commuter train prepares to cross.

A set of railroad tracks with parts of them set on fire as a commuter train prepares to cross.

It has snowed in Chicago and YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! Time to remind everyone that we light our train tracks on fire to prevent the switches from freezing.

21.11.2024 10:54 👍 21082 🔁 3524 💬 565 📌 697

New Crocs in the Black Friday sales. Truly I am a man of style and substance

22.11.2024 13:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
20.11.2024 06:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Now this place is cooking, maybe worth doing a big old energy thread.

Let’s talk about how electricity prices are set, why they’re so high in Britain, and how we could reduce them…
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18.11.2024 20:07 👍 252 🔁 98 💬 25 📌 19
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What's CommodoreBlog all about? Obviously Commodore, but also #RetroGaming #VideoGames #Nostalgia #70s #80s #90s and so much more! If you like these things, why not follow me!

15.11.2024 00:02 👍 156 🔁 32 💬 14 📌 1