How Much of Your AWS Runs While Nobody Is Working?
Most teams use their dev and staging environments for 8 hours a day and pay for them to run 24. The math on always-on infrastructure, and why it's so hard to fix manually.
The Hidden AWS Cost You're Probably Paying
AWS quietly bills you for a lot of things while you sleep — dev servers, staging environments, forgotten test databases. None of them feel expensive alone, but together they inflate the monthly bill.
The Hardest Part of Building Alone
Why deciding what not to build is harder than writing code — and the simple filter that keeps me focused while working on ParkMyAWS.
Building a SaaS After Bedtime
What it's actually like building a SaaS product in 90-minute evening sessions — the progress, the unglamorous parts, and why the coding isn't the hardest thing.
Why I'm Building ParkMyAWS
The origin story behind ParkMyAWS — from using ParkMyCloud years ago, to watching it disappear after an IBM acquisition, to building a simpler version in late-night coding sessions.
Migrating a Legacy Laravel App with AI: From PHP 7.4 to Laravel 12
How I used Claude Code to modernise a neglected marketing site — fixing N+1 queries, stripping dead code, and jumping from Laravel 9 to 12 in a single day.
Why I Replaced Excel with a Web App for Payroll
How I turned a complex Cyprus payroll spreadsheet into a type-safe Vue 3 calculator — and what I learned about building financial software.
My Side Project Stack in 2026
The tools and frameworks I'm using across my projects in 2026 — what's working, what I'd change, and why I picked each one.
Secure AWS Integrations: The AssumeRole Pattern
How to build multi-account AWS access without ever storing credentials, using IAM AssumeRole with external IDs and temporary session tokens.
Action Pattern in Laravel: Why I Stopped Using Fat Controllers
How extracting business logic into single-purpose Action classes made my Laravel code easier to navigate, test, and maintain.
Allowing GitHub Actions to SSH into Your Server
A technical guide on configuring AWS to allow GitHub Actions to SSH into your server.
Impostor Syndrome – Maybe I’m Not Good Enough?
Sometimes feel like I'm falling behind. Here's my take on impostor syndrome as a senior developer, parent, and human.
Running Multiple PHP Versions on a Single EC2 Instance
How we manage different PHP versions from 5.6 to 8.4 on a single server using Docker and volume mapping
Learning Astro by converting Next.js template.
I decided to convert the React-based template into an Astro site in order to get my hands on it.
Finally launching my site
I hold this domain for some years now and it was about time to launch my site.
Experience
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- Company
- Digital Marmalade
- Role
- Senior Software Engineer
- Date
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- Company
- Digital Marmalade
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Date