Phillip Whittlesea-Clark

Software Architect & Dungeon Master

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code

Use ssh instead of https for Terraform modules

1 minute read

When you use Terraform modules that are hosted on GitHub, you tend to set up the module reference with https as the protocol because you can use an auth toke...

Jekyll pre-commit Hooks

2 minute read

I use multiple pre-commit hooks to make sure my posts are really ready. This is my setup

Project Decomposition

7 minute read

As an architect, I frequently assist software engineers in breaking down project scope into manageable chunks. Here is one of the techniques I use.

One Rule to Build Them All

2 minute read

Every business is different, every codebase has debt that needs to be worked around. Any given project has different success criteria (budget vs. cost vs. sc...

A Simple Script Base

less than 1 minute read

Sometimes you just need a script that takes arguments. This is a simple script which will call different functions based on the first argument from the user.

Simple QR Code Command

less than 1 minute read

Sometimes you need to open a URL on your phone that you found on your company laptop but there’s no simple way to send it between the two devices. This simpl...

Bye-Bye GPG

1 minute read

So I have been using GPG to sign my Git commits for about 5 years now and every year, when my keys expire, it’s a nightmare to renew the keys for another yea...

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holidays

I visited New Zealand - Part 5

12 minute read

We spent 4 nights in Wellington, made 3 trips to Wētā, ate at 2 Restaurants, and visited 1 Museum

I visited New Zealand - Part 4

8 minute read

Our quest down the northern island of New Zealand continues, taking us from Rotorua to Wellington, via Middle Earth

I visited New Zealand - Part 3

7 minute read

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole...

I visited New Zealand - Part 1

9 minute read

I know you shouldn’t get swept away by the small snippet you see of a county when you go on holiday, but I did. New Zealand stole my heart and I wish I coul...

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update

New Beginnings

3 minute read

I’ve been rocking the same website since 2013. I created it on the 25th of April 2013 when I heard that GitHub had moved GitHub Pages to a dedicated domain, ...

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hardware

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