Developer Insomnia
The creaive brain that's such an asset in the day is a real problem at night.
Posted on Sunday, 20 February 2022
Watching the documentary, Daisy Maskell, "Insomnia and Me" I felt anxious. As she described the things that made her unable to sleep and she stared out at a swing in her garden, I got it. I had that same feeling she described as she looked out of her window. She poignantly decribed it as an "inability to switch off".
Terraform and Hybrid Connections for Azure App Services
Some of the gotchas I experienced creating hybrid connections in Azure using Terraform.
Posted on Saturday, 3 October 2020
I use Terraform to create all infrastructure in Azure at work. It's a fantastic tool, and one which has saved a lot of time. However, there is always a lot to learn, and with that comes gotchas that you want to avoid in future. So to save future-me some Googling in a few months, here are the most time consuming gotchas I encountered on a recent project while trying to create hybrid connections for app services in Azure using Terraform.
Installing SSL Certificates in IIS
I finally took the time to understand local SSL certificates in IIS... and created a script so you can too.
Posted on Saturday, 14 March 2020
For many years I've never really understood SSL certificates. Sure I get why we need them, but why do I need one when developing on my local machine. But things came to a head last week when I needed to replicate a bug in production that we weren't seeing locally.