My name is John McCracken and I am a Cloud Engineer based on the west coast of Scotland.
With almost 20 years experience, I have a range of knowledge covering most aspects of tech. I’m mainly focused on AWS, but also have experience in Azure. I’ve reached this point in my career via various roles including training, database admin, web development, infrastructure management and security.
Worked with some great people over the years, some of them seriously clever. Obviously none of that rubbed off on me.
This post is a quick description of the simple Continuous Integration\Deployment used for this website.
I’m under no false impressions that this is a great website, It suits my needs and is easy to maintain and best of all: its all free!
It’s unusual that I ever think of a use case where my technical skills can help my everyday life. But it’s now seed planting time, I have a lack of sunny windowsills and it’s still too cold to risk putting my seedlings in the greenhouse at night.
So I decided to write a quick solution that would alert me if the minimum nightly temperature dropped below a certain level.
As always, this is done in AWS, mainly because I’m more comfortable there, and Azure is also honking!
i had to quickly fire up a website to find homes for our puppies. Using Hugo, Cloudflare and Netlify I had a site up and running within an hour, not bad indeed.
Dogs found homes pretty quickly among friends and family, so no actual need for the site.
It can live on as a tribute to my fur kids! Puppies for sale
I have some blog posts on dev.to, but haven’t written anything in years.
One day I’ll write another post, but not today!
