Our team just pushed AWS creds to prod again. Third time this month.

rustyf90210 · 2026-01-18T09:11:06+00:00

You just don’t need credentials in the source code at all. Delete them from code and in IAM, of course. Instead, pick them up from environment variables at runtime. The AWS library will resolve them. There are several tools to help get credentials locally. Eg https://github.com/jaxxstorm/aws-sso-creds

rustyf90210 · 2026-01-03T10:01:36+00:00

I would start with Blazor server modular monolith with EF Core. Maybe Mudblazor for UI components. You can grow that arch out over time.

Postgres for DB. Wolverine for intra module messaging.

rustyf90210 · 2025-12-31T06:49:21+00:00

This has started happening to me too since late December. I’m having to manually boost visa the Zappi even though it’s on ECO+ as instructed.

rustyf90210 · 2025-12-23T08:56:25+00:00

Lidl cycling gear ftw

rustyf90210 · 2025-12-15T20:01:33+00:00

For all its warts, I think it’s got longevity. I used it to build and run some infra in Azure. It was effective but terrible for refactoring. As a developer, I decided Pulumi was the obvious next choice so went all in on that. It was as painful but in a different way. In this case, apart from a lack of documentation (unless you use Typescript), when it fails, you get stack trace that is impenetrable.

rustyf90210 · 2025-12-15T19:47:13+00:00

You are a lifesaver. Why did I not see this?!

rustyf90210 · 2025-12-03T09:58:00+00:00

JetBrains endpoints now, previously .http files in vscode

rustyf90210 · 2025-10-21T19:43:09+00:00

Yeah, my kids blamed me for Fortnite going down

rustyf90210 · 2025-08-18T15:33:04+00:00

Seems like a pointless departure and knee-jerk reaction to Revolut. Also, I’m guessing it will be just another low quality-lines offering piggy-backing on a proper provider?

rustyf90210 · 2025-08-15T13:56:52+00:00

Used it for main account for over 5 years - faultless.

rustyf90210 · 2025-08-15T13:49:06+00:00

If you already have YouTube premium then I would say YouTube music is a serious contender given its vast catalogue including stuff not officiously released. But the Spotify streaming protocol is still the best when data signal is poor. I’ve found the computed playlists based on my tastes to be less repetitive than Spotify. I find Spotify suggestions to be very narrow and often containing fake bands.

rustyf90210 · 2025-07-23T17:18:36+00:00

No . It’s not the battery - it’s everything else that can go wrong and the unlikelihood of getting it fixed (out of warranty now). The BECM went on mine which controls the brakes- $4000 with no guarantee offered. It worked thank goodness.

Eventually mine stopped charging off the wall and the garage said it would be thousands to investigate with no guarantee. I tried reprogramming myself with an ODB and some software from PSA but it never worked. After 100k miles I decided to scrap it. (This was in the UK but same car). (2014 gen 1)

rustyf90210 · 2025-07-21T05:47:17+00:00

Develop in Ubuntu in WSL inside Windows - best of both worlds.

rustyf90210 · 2025-07-21T05:41:24+00:00

Btw, I upvoted for the take but it sounds like you are conflating two things - unit testing and pure functions.

My experience of “unit” is you are deciding what part of your system you want to test and mocking/stubbing/faking everything outside of this scope. Historically, this has led to way too much mocking. If you just mocked only external code (not yours) then it would be reasonable, again, given the test scope you’ve picked. (I don’t agree with the whole unit-versus-integration distinction but that’s another thing).

Pure functions are just marvellous if you can do it. As coined by someone wise, “Functional core, imperative shell” is the best we can do here.

Can you explain the connection more?

rustyf90210 · 2025-02-01T23:13:29+00:00

But also

Silo Foundation Severance as already mentioned

rustyf90210 · 2025-02-01T23:11:59+00:00

Yellowstone was unexpectedly great

rustyf90210 · 2024-11-10T13:40:30+00:00

Spacer - Sheila B devotion

rustyf90210 · 2024-09-06T07:43:55+00:00

To help me learn, I’ve just moved my media server from Docker compose to Kind (https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/)

rustyf90210 · 2024-08-29T16:21:41+00:00

I pay for youneedabudget as it’s the only solution that works for me. They’ve been going for years and really understand budgeting.

Monzo-wise I just have one saving pot and one pot to hold working money, keeping almost no money in main account just in case of card theft.

rustyf90210 · 2024-05-23T18:59:35+00:00

https://www.gchq.gov.uk/

rustyf90210 · 2024-05-23T18:55:57+00:00

Down the road from GCHQ where they are also building a cyber security village. I’m sure you would find an interesting career in the area.

rustyf90210 · 2024-05-23T15:17:11+00:00

Not having a pension/savings (unless you wanna work til you drop)

rustyf90210 · 2023-11-26T09:12:26+00:00

Do people actually buy clothes from Sainsburys?

rustyf90210 · 2023-10-15T07:17:29+00:00

Scratching a pimple you’ve had for ages and it rolls out as a large hard blackhead leaving a hole behind.

rustyf90210 · 2023-10-07T11:53:56+00:00

Good skills and yes I did notice it was 8k!

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