Writing about anything I might need again in the future.

I hope nobody is reading, but if you do, please keep these to yourself.

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Creating 33,000 coupon codes in Stripe using AWS Serverless and AWS CDK

A fun little project spun up using AWS Serverless tech to help a team member out creating a shed ton of coupon codes in Stripe. All put together using AWS CDK a nice little use-case of a few AWS services connecting together.

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Top 5 tips on joining a new company remote as a software engineer

A little bit of background before we begin. 3 months ago I left comparethemarket.com to join a life insurance startup in Leicester called DeadHappy. It was a pretty scary jump to go from a company of 400+ engineers to an engineering team of 6.