Stephen Gream's Blog

My day to day grind at the moment has been configuring new environments as we have new work coming in. I’ve done it enough at this point…

As I alluded to in my bitboard rant a little while ago, I’ve been working on a chess game in my own time. I’ve had a few realisations while…

The current quiet tech battle being fought is against Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts, or FLoC, which Google is pushing as its…

Create an AWS EC2 AMI and deploy it with Cloudformation

So something interesting I spotted this week was a tool called Endgame. Originally announced by Salesforce, the tool was pulled by the time…

Making Gatsby properly build a page using the FullCalendar component

I’ve always had a fascination with chess, and indeed I played and won trophies for it in school. Long gone are my glory days, however, and I…

Came across something curious in my investigation into why I had a couple of Cloudwatch alarms going off. Like clockwork, every six hours I…

Naturally with any large organisation, they’re only going to be interested in your software if you make it easy for them to integrate it…

Once again, I talk about how I'm changing around my blog

How to use IAM to connect clients to RDS

A Cloudformation template to spin up an API gateway application authenticated by a Cognito user pool

Been a bit slack on updating this blog, so to make up for it I slapped together a quick and dirty application to tunnel through EC…

I just spent a good month wrangling ECS Fargate deployments with a ton of cloudformation to boot. I’m going to outline the stupid things I…

Forgive the rambly nature of this blog entry, just trying to set my own thoughts straight a little bit. This isn’t intended for anyone else…