Rabidgremlin

That's similar to how I used to do it it but I got tired of paying for servers.... plus this approach let me play some "buzzword bingo"

BTW my first Internet facing thing was a CGI-BIN Perl script delivering call records for telcos, way back in 1995. I've been cutting code for 35+ years. Never feel old!

If you want to roll your own, I have a Docker image that pulls Markdown out of git, runs Hugo over it and pushes the site to an S3 bucket. Also works with Bitbucket pipelines so you can get a site rebuild with a simple git push: https://github.com/rabidgremlin/hugo-s3

Sure... somewhere I have book that covered writing a full blown multi-threading "OS" in Turbo Pascal.

In the late 80's I wrote a framework that allowed multi-user games (via dial-up) to be created. Included 256 color graphics, mouse input etc... had fun fighting IRQ conflicts etc. Good times :)

Along similar lines I have been playing with Bitbucket Pipelines and Hugo to build static websites on commit and deploy them to S3 buckets. Really like the way they use docker containers as build agents, it's very tidy: https://github.com/rabidgremlin/hugo-s3

If you rolled it out to Oz surely you can enable New Zealand to ???

Yeah, tripped over this beauty a few years ago... Took days to figure out what was going on :( Was using nginx as internal load balancer across a RESTful services layer.

Awesome.... I have a bunch of these sitting on my bookshelf :)

IoT functions as services? Check out Java Jini developed way back in 1998: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jini

Right idea but it's implementation was very very clunky.

You mean like this? https://twitter.com/ColeBeLove/status/659415241592147968?lan... D'oh!

Keep - old Nexus 4

Have a read of these essays http://97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/97_Things_Every_S...

Basically you want to become a "Force Multiplier" for your team, thinking a few steps ahead, seeing the big picture, guiding everyone past upcoming road blocks, you need to be able to mentor/help out when it its the fan. And of course you still need to code ;)

A hard job but endlessly fun

Awesome!

I put together a tutorial on writing a simple game in PICO-8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuaLuMhwcc8 its really a fun platform to play with

Totally.. he even invented the company "Ackson" (for Ackerman & Son) and the company logo you can see in the corner of the main screen (him and I holding hands).

He is a pretty awesome kid :)

Glad you liked it. He'll be super-stoked to know that people are playing his game :)

I'll see what I can do re sharing the source code...

However it did encourage him to want to make games... this is the first one: http://ackson.nz/

I did the coding but it was his concept, he did all the graphics (scanned pictures he drew), the font (generated from his handwriting) and sound effects (that's him making all the sounds).

He also built the levels and used a music generator to create the background music (not in the version that is on the website yet). This was all done in Unity with a lot of prefabs to make it easy for him to build the levels.

I'm totally going to introduce him to PICO-8 (see link below) next to see how he gets on :)

I started putting together a "book" when I was teaching my 6 year old a bit about coding. It uses a BBC Micro emulator and BBC BASIC as the intro language. Never got around to finishing it... http://c4k.rabidgremlin.com/

It Rocks. Bought it yesterday, had a simple game up and running in 10 minutes....and 80's flashbacks the rest of the day :)

Something like PICO-8 would work great for young programmers I think http://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

Awesome... I had avoided roles to keep things easier to understand but will check out the PR.

Well Cloudformation is AWS specific, whereas Ansible could be applied to other platforms and environments. So might be easier to learn/master just one tool?

Yeah it was really hard finding good examples to piece this together. Also I'm not sure this is a best practice example as it probably should use roles....

Mmm I'm not sure. The Ansible AWS modules use the Boto library so perhaps there is more info in its docs somewhere?

Tell me more... I suppose one could do some form of page scrapping in the background and then generate a notifucation

I know, the app is embarrassing simple, maybe a 100 lines of code but apparently people find it useful.

Fantastic feedback, thanks!

Thanks for your comments, lots to think about

mmm, very informative. Need to go look at those policies again.

lol....

Yes it is.

I actually came across Tinfoil after I released my app. It does the same thing buts its "marketing message" was different so I did not find it when I first went looking for this type of app :(