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-native applications and consult on AWS architecture. I also build tools for DynamoDB - including Dynoxide and Nubo.
Latest posts
How close is your DynamoDB emulator to AWS?
My DynamoDB conformance suite has a site now. Eight emulators, 684 tests, all scored against live AWS DynamoDB, with fresh results every run - standings, per-target history and the full matrix included.
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Filing my first security advisory
Logged into GitHub yesterday, hit a Dependabot alert on dynoxide, ended up filing my first GHSA. Here's what I'd tell past-me about the form, the order of operations, and the bug itself.
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Dynoxide patch notes: 0.9.10 to 0.9.12
Notes from the latest stretch of dynoxide patch releases - what shipped, what got fixed, and the takeaways.
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A year with my Intel N100 home server: what changed
A year on from the £250 N100 server build. The boring infrastructure won. Unbound got removed, Tailscale earned its place, and the disk debate I lost sleep over turned out not to matter.
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