Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Created Azure Resource Manager with Workflow Identity Federation

I have managed to successfully create an Azure Resource Manager service connection using Workflow Identity Federation.

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

I'm happy to announce a new achievement,
I passed the AWS Certified Solutions Architect exam

improved secret management

I removed secrets from the environment variables and stored and retrieved them from AWS Secret Manager. 

Sunday, March 22, 2026

Installed neovim + kickstart.nvim

 doing it on windows - for the haters

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Flashed the BIOS

 It's been a while since I've had to flash the BIOS of a device.
The first time didn't seem to work, but probably it just needed another reboot.

Saturday, March 14, 2026

SES managed pool

Today was the first time that I've setup a managed IP pool on AWS/SES.
The process seems easy enough, I'll need to monitor it over the next few days.
I would have preferred to have applied it via Cloudformation,
but the environment still has a lot of legacy config that hasn't been imported into CF yet.

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

First time fixing a corrupt github action

There was a failure on github actions today which seemed to corrupt the action responsible for publishing my github page crowne.githhub.io .
I couldn't cancel it from the command line using
> gh run cancel 132546789

I couldn't cancel it using curl.
Eventually switching the page source to none and then back to main worked.