It's been a few months since my cofounder and I decided to call time on our fundraise and as a result our journey building Nanumo. We fought as hard as we could to build what we (still) believe is a v...
As part of our payables product at Nanumo we have a need for pagination, sorting and filtering data throughout the product. There are already many articles that cover keyset pagination with Postgres b...
Since publishing the [first version of this article](https://henrycourse.com/blog/2021/10/19/aws-terraform-one-hour/) I've built a startup using the same techniques to manage the AWS infrastructure. T...
A few weekends ago I visited Bletchley Park (BP) in Bucks UK. BP was the headquarters of the British codebreaking operation in World War 2, made famous after the war for their work cracking the German...
_tl;dr This guide is for people who want to get started with AWS and Terraform, who want to do it properly, securely and want to get building FAST._ In 2020 I left my permanent job and started [Merge...
Over the past few weeks I've been working on non-blocking database connectivity for my Kotlin web stack. I'm using Ktor as a web framework and Postgres for my database. I'm using jasync-sql as a light...
In need of a static IP? Maybe you want to run a VPN at home, maybe you want to be able to access your NAS when you're away or maybe it's one of those things that you don't really need but kinda want f...
Over the past few months I've been spending some time working with the [Ktor](https://ktor.io/) web framework for some personal projects and I'm at the point now where it's replaced Spring as my goto ...
It's been a little while but I decided to write this one up in the hope that it'll be useful to someone who might otherwise decide to get rid of a perfectly good piece of kit. N.B. I am no electronics...
A sticky heat has descended on London and as I sit here attempting to write job applications, what better way to spend my time than writing something else about cycling. I've been home just over a wee...
N.B. My Strava for this ride can be found [here](https://www.strava.com/activities/1635121922)! Over a tour of a few thousand kilometers, it's easy to lose track of a hundred or so as part of the acc...
The woods at Cape Lookout State Park come right up to the edge of the sea. In the right spot you can sip a cup of tea and feel the little flecks of spray on your face as the waves thunder up the rocks...
Outside the cover of the headland, frantic whitecaps zip across Trinidad Bay. On the beach meanwhile, the wind is reduced to a cooling breeze as pelicans dry their wings on the rocks and tourists kaya...
Sitting on the grass at the Ecola State Park viewpoint, the last few days blur in to one. The steep, winding road up to the park entrance has done my legs no favours but as I look out over the sands a...
A day late but close enough: As per my usual approach to travel, I'm sat in Heathrow Terminal 3 flicking through the pages of Spring and Kirkendall's "Bicycling the Pacific Coast, 4th Edition", force...
The first day of warm spring weather in London is always one of mixed emotions for me. I'm something of a fair weather sportsman and cruising over Waterloo Bridge in shorts and a t-shirt is a welcome ...
I'm a week late with this post as work has been a bit crazy but here's a quick writeup of the 2018 Cobble Monster. CW: You'll have to use your imagination as I was too busy trying to get to the pub to...
Since finishing my masters programme 8 months ago, it's been a rollercoaster ride. In September 2017 I stood a newly belettered man (BA MSc.), footloose, free and filled with dreams of new careers, ea...
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