Software developer & AWS consultant.
Hello. I'm Martin, a software developer and entrepreneur based in Manchester, England.
I'm a co-founder of Si Novi, where we build cloud-based applications and consult on AWS architecture. I'm also currently building open source tooling for DynamoDB developers.
Latest posts
Automating my son's YouTube with Python and FFmpeg
My son wanted a YouTube channel. I wanted to make sure I wasn't the bottleneck. Here's how I automated the entire weekly workflow with Python, the FPL API, Whisper, FFmpeg, and the YouTube Data API.
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Recently Played: bringing back my Last.fm component
I had a Last.fm widget on my site in 2010. Fifteen years later, I brought it back as an Eleventy WebC component with SSR, live polling, and localStorage caching.
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WireGuard for safe browsing on kids' devices
Kids' devices leave the home network. WireGuard tunnels their DNS back through home filtering — everywhere, automatically.
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Running AdGuard Home and Unbound on a home server
AdGuard Home handles the filtering, Unbound handles the resolving. Together they give you private, ad-free DNS for your whole network.
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