I recently got hammered by AWS for not keeping my single micro Postgres instance up to date. It was going to cost me a fortune a month to keep it running and I spotted this way too late. In addition to this, I was also massively overpaying for a load balancer sat in front of ECS Fargate running the web application robparkers.photography. The overall bill was going to be over three-figures for the month due to carelessness and over-engineering.

Today I deleted an entire module from my infrastructure terraform repo, the one that related to my photography project. It was always massively over-engineered and at this point in my life I can’t justify the cloud costs. Everything is gone except the media in the buckets and a big pg dump.

The future of AI tools can already be seen in the present state of Google search

Now that my photography project looks pretty much how I wanted it to, I’ve turned my attention to polishing it and trying to get it to render quicker in the browser.

One of the reasons I’ve given this some extra attention is perfectly captured in the gif I made for the original post..

First attempt at writing a (very dry) article on Depop engineering blog.

After a slump in inspiration, I decided to pick up a new project which involved something creative.

During the winter 2020 I started working on an Airflow 2.0 implementation running on Kubernetes, with DAGs running on ECS. There were a few reasons for doing this, other than the obvious which was that I was running out of things to keep me occupied.

SYLO (Sort Your Life Out) is a pomodoro timer for your terminal.

buttreynolds.com is a Django Web application which facilitates the sharing of Serial Fiction, movies and audio.