The occasional ramblings of a software engineer, dad of 3, cycling-mad drinker of tea!
Hi, I’m Edd Grant — a software engineer based in London. This is my little corner of the web, where I write the occasional blog post on things that interest me, usually where I think there may be some benefit to sharing.
I recently migrated my UniFi-based networking setup over to a Cloud Gateway Max (UCG-Max). The whole thing took about an hour, which included a couple of minutes of internet downtime. Despite being a bit anxious about what might go wrong, I found it surprisingly simple.
For the last few years I have been capturing indoor temperature data from the Honeywell Evohome system that controls our heating. I’ve used it to create various dashboards which have taught me a great deal about how quickly different areas of the house heat up and cool down. Here’s an example of a dashboard widget which shows the indoor temperature for each of our heating zones:
I’m a long time user of YouTube Music. I love that it’s able to reach in to the incredible library of electronic music that has been uploaded to YouTube over the past few decades. I also love that it allows users to upload their own music and have been starting to curate an uploaded library songs that aren’t available on streaming platforms. This feature has allowed me to slowly but surely upload old CDs which are precious to me (band demos, white labels etc). The beauty of it all is that I then have my entire library available to me wherever I am, even in the car via Android Auto. I love this!
I recently posted about Connecting to a private ECR repository using VPC Endpoints, which is a really useful approach when you want to keep your traffic to ECR within your VPC and not have it go out over the public internet.
Here’s the scenario: You’ve created a private ECR repository, you’ve uploaded an image to it and now you want to run that image as an ECS task. But… you don’t want ECS going out over the public internet to the ECR API. Instead you want to keep the traffic inside your VPC.
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