John Crawley | Former Cloud Support Engineer @ Amazon, Indie Developer

AWShorts Episode 2 Is Out! This is the shortest episode to date (I ideally wanted to hit over 5 minutes), due to 2 hours not properly being recorded. I want to switch from Quicktime record screen to OBS, so I will be tinkering with OBS in the meantime. Also, I’m new to doing voice over […]

I Can’t Afford to Renew My Domain Just a quick blog update, currently I can’t afford to renew my domain (johncrawley.ie) at this time (about €50 for a year they renewal will cost me – which is really expensive for even a domain name which cost me about €4 at the time). However, once I […]

Next Episodes for AWShorts (EP2 & EP3) As mentioned in my previous blog post, I do want to continue this YouTube series onwards, but couldn’t in the previous 9 months due to events and personal reasons in 2025, which I feel is a shame because it was fun just making small fun projects, demostrating them […]

Happy late new year! – it’s been a long minute since I made a blog post on my own website, primarily just a lot going on in my personal life that disrupted me throughout the last half of 2025. Now?, still kinda the same but want to get myself completely back on track and on […]

After watching this video released by Apple from WWDC25, the updated version of Xcode looks like a good upgrade both in design and with productivity with new features in the new MacOS (Tahoe 26): I feel very inspired to develop a small iOS application either for a production application or just a demonstration of experimenting […]

Yesterday, I released the first episode of AWShorts (AWS Shorts). I have made a LinkedIn post about it along with mentioning that each episode will be uploaded to the GitHub repository for the series where anyone can check the code or workflow etc. I want to try make an episode (hopefully) every week or two but not […]

I want to start making a YouTube series of relatively short videos (10 minutes or less… ideally 5 minutes or a little under that) just using AWS to build/deploy projects using container services (i.e: ECS / EKS), maybe other AWS services down the road too but the focus now is on container based services since […]

Background [Codename: “Lost Caves”] is currently an unannounced project that I want to work on this year. I’m currently exploring the idea of the project, the scope of the project and creating the documentation to build a prototype to test it with participants that’ll provide feedback and if the feedback is successful regarding the project […]

Release Day! Today (5th of May 2025) I’m releasing my personal website to the internet that includes information about me like hobbies/interests, my career history, projects I’ve worked on and a blog for myself to make posts either about projects in current development, thoughts and more. I will be working on the backend and frontend […]