Stephen Souness
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My Pegasus Town Involvement
The Pegasus Town golf course may not be financially viable, but the original developers got off to a promising start via the website Stephen established.
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Running AI Locally
Paying subscriptions isn’t a requirement for leveraging AI with an LLM. You can run some models on your own systems.
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Slopsquatting
Slopsquatting is when a dependency is set up in anticipation that an AI system may hallucinate what it expects to exist. This can lead to serious security issues, and is already being exploited in the wild.
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Failure Modes of S3 Bucket Listing
Evaluating different approaches to obtaining a list of S3 buckets from AWS. Blocking vs non-blocking, and the pros and cons of pagination.
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Making A Bucket List
Stephen considering how lazy loading changes the error handling com[lexity, using mockk for testing Kotlin code that calls the AWS SDK for Kotlin.
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Protection from Software Supply Chain Attacks
Considering how lockfiles may be useful for detecting compromised dependencies in your software supply chain.
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Blogs Index
A landing page for people interested in finding out what Stephen has been blogging about over the years.
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Front-End Development Experience
Stephen Souness describes aspects of his career that have involved developing user facing components. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, libraries and frameworks.
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Cloud Idle
As cloud resources become scarce, it is time to evaluate our existing setups. Not all cost savings will involve compromising on performance or quality of service.
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Vibe Coding Is Like A Scene From The Matrix
“I know Vibe Coding”. AI and The Matrix.