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A description of a way to implement code changes with ephemeral environments and canary deployments using the argo projects

A description of my k3s based kubernetes homelab setup

An example full stack serverless typescript node and single page application and pipeline. It uses AWS Cloudfront, API Gateway, Lambda, S3, DynamoDb, Route 53 and is implemented with AWS CDK. The pipeline has multiple stages and continuously deploys as a green/blue pattern.

This post details a couple of methods of implementing Green Blue deployments on AWS Cloudfront. Links to examples in typescript and AWS CDK are listed.

This post details how to make an interactive code runner with F# Fable using the SAFE stack and Fsharp compiler services FSCS

This post details how to make a todo list application using the AWS Amplify toolset. Tech involves F#, Fable, AWS Cognito, graphql, API Gateway and AWS Lambda.

This post details implementing a serverless app using F#, Fable, Feliz, serverless, AWS Lambda, API Gateway.

This post details how to make a multiplayer games room with F# Akka.Net, SAFE Stack, SignalR and some techniques and problems solved.

This post details a problem solved when running dotnet test in docker. Namely the problem of retrieving files from the docker image when a non zero exit code occurs from the dotnet test command.

This post details a project to analyse project dependencies with F# and display and analyse them with neo4j .

Series of posts detailing a method of automate nuget package versioning and publication using github actions.

Series of posts detailing a method of automate nuget package versioning and publication using github actions.

Series of posts detailing a method of automate nuget package versioning and publication using github actions.

A post that details a method of creating a cli with a dotnet global tool, F# and Argu

Running VsTest with Cake blog post published on Scott Logic blog

Magical domain modelling with F# blog post published on Scott Logic blog

Using powershell to update the 'Date taken' property of images

Talk 'Hunting typosquatters with F#' at F# Bristol

Hunting typosquatters on npm blog post published on Scott Logic blog

npm typosquatting results found an interesting javascript package I

I’ve been adding unit test coverage to a project which uses a streaming approach to write potentially big files. With such projects it’s…

I’ve been making a few AWS Lambda functions at work lately, they are very useful at small automation tasks and also gluing different…

I’ve been writing a few nuget packages lately, to try and promote best practices in build and deployment code. Nuget caches packages in…

I’m a big fan of powershell. Every now and then I write a function to help me in my day to day work. I plan to write one of these every…

I often want to check what values are included in the PATH env variable and Powershell provides easy access to this information with . The…

At work we use TeamCity for a CI server. We’ve had a lot of success with it but there are a few issues with the build logic that are…

It seems like a trivial issue, but lately i’ve been thinking about the need to have a sensible naming convention for text log files. The…

I’ve been working a bit too hard lately having extra-curricular powershell fun. The nature of powershell, the fact that basically everything…

I’ve been writing a lot of powershell lately, learning a lot and generally loving it. I’ve also been configuring servers and applications to…

In my day to day it’s not always possible to be able to properly write code in a TDD manner. The lack of existing code coverage, tight…

A sort of new years resolution of mine is to use more powershell and command line in general. I’ve spent a bit of time customising a…

A sort of new years resolution of mine is to use more powershell and command line in general. For this purpose I’ve been trying to supe up…

Counting to 10 in different programming languages. Scratch C# F# python

I have recently finished my first windows phone app. My first experience using an VVM framework and the XAML stack. I learned a few whilst…

I was reading some code recently and was getting pretty sick of this pattern: This checks whether the setting exists in the configuration…

I’m lucky to say that my workhorse language is C#. I’m less lucky to say that the way that this blog currently colours the C# syntax isn’t…

I’m a coder, that’s what I am. That’s what I do and I do it fairly well. As a coder, it’s my responsibility to have a blog about my…

Hello all, today a blog is born! This is all possible from forking the fabulous Jekyll Now repository on GitHub, though i’ll try and…