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This is a fairly minimal blog with assorted tech posts. The main plan is to come back to these posts when I forget how to do something, but if you find it useful too, that's great. :)

Recent Posts

• Using RDS IAM with connection pools (psycopg)

  Posted on:17 September 2026  at 

  A recent update to psycopg makes rotating credentials easy to use

• AWS ECS Express Mode is a bit naff

  Posted on:2 July 2026  at 

  Why I had to ditch AWS's flagship way to 'easily' deploy containers

• Docker build caching in CI (for multi-stage builds)

  Posted on:1 July 2025  at 

  How and why to set up registry build caching in CI, with a GitLab example

• How Does Ollama's Structured Outputs Work?

  Posted on:9 December 2024  at 

  Digging into what Ollama is doing under the hood to produce structured outputs