Annotated case studies – architecture, decisions, and outcomes from real engagements.
Over twenty years of intermittent effort — from VBA macros and an Access database built for The Cygnet Golf Society in 2002, through two abandoned Laravel attempts, to a full Laravel 13 SaaS using Claude Code throughout. This is the series index.
How to extract packages, services, users, and filesystem configuration from a running Linux instance and use it as the basis for a repeatable Packer AMI template.
Modernising a production AWS estate with Claude Code – migrating Terraform state v3 to v4, the AWS provider to 6.0, and Amazon Linux, PHP and WordPress to current versions – with an honest account of where the AI tool helped and where it did not.