Joe Innes

I created an app which interacts with the Budapest Public Transport company’s API to fetch the number of available bicycles at each rental station, and displays them on a map. Check it out at https://bubi-bikes.joeinn.es!

An article posted on LinkedIn has been gaining popularity as a simplified explanation of the UK tax system. At first glance, it seems quite interesting and well thought through, so I did some fact checking. This is what it really looks like. Suppose that once a week, ten men go out for beer. The bill for all ten comes to £288. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: - The...

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The alarm clock rings, but I’m already awake. I know it’s 6:45 now, and I’ve been awake for probably about twenty minutes already. I hit snooze anyway, because the air is cold in the flat. Nine minutes later, I drag one leg after the other over the edge of the bed, and stumble into the bathroom. When I turn the light on, I realise that I can’t see myself in the mirror, but I can’t be bothered to go back...

Yesterday, one of Amazon’s data centres suffered some kind of catastrophic failure, and their S3 service went down. The US-EAST-1 DC is one of the data centres the tech giant have on the Eastern seaboard (it’s in North Virginia, to be precise). A large portion of the internet was affected, and a variety of websites were affected by the outage. What is AWS and S3? AWS stands for Amazon Web Services, and is a collection of technology platforms which can...