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Books I will (might) read in 2021
My dad bought me Gateway by Frederik Pohl (plus all the sequels!) for Xmas 2020, and this sent me on a journey into the (massive) list of SF Masterworks books. I am under no illusion that I will finish all 180 books in one year, but I aim to get …
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Handy pytest snippets
I seem to spend 90% of my time these days writing Python tests. Which one could argue is how it should be, but whatever.
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'Simple Moto examples'
Moto is a (the?) python AWS mocking package all good python AWS mockers use. The docs are pretty helpful, but personally I like a nice simple example I can copy and paste to start out with, reading is too much effort. Here's a few I've collected from around the internet …
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DynamoDB Keys for Beginners
I have never used DynamoDB before, I am a proper relational database person, but I have recently had to get into a (very simple) No-SQL db setup and there are some things that are quite different to a proper database, namely keys and indexes.
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'Remote Working Review - Month One(ish)'
I started working (almost) full time remote at the start of January. It's been two full months now, thought I'm not sure the first month really counts, so I thought it would be a good time to reflect on how it's going.
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PHP Patterns Part 1 - Repository Pattern
As I do more work at new work, I expect I will come across a few of these patterns that I don't know about. For some reason Software Design Patterns are a trigger for my deeply ingrained Imposter - I find myself regularly having to apologise for my lack of 'proper' …