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Matt Carrick

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Isolation and cinema trips

February 03, 2020

I’m not good at dealing with loneliness. I really struggle with being alone, no matter how much time I seem to get to practice being alone…

Deliveroo Review

August 15, 2018

Here’s what I’ve gotten delivered to my face from the awful, awful company Deliveroo, and what I thought of the food. All in Dublin, unless…

Guide to AWS acronyms

January 30, 2018

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a lot of awful Three Letter Acronyms (TLAs), with many very similar abbreviations for very different services…

Will Trade Unions die out?

November 24, 2017

My da has been the union rep in his office for as long as I can remember. It’s a position I’ve always been incredibly proud he’s held, even…

I'm learning AWS deployment services

November 10, 2017

Well, you’d hope I actually know them, seeing as I’m working for AWS as a Cloud Support Associate in the Deployment team, right? Being in…

Let's Talk about Rounders (and poker)

July 05, 2017

Over the last few months I’ve spent a lot of time rediscovering old hobbies and finding new ones in order to try move on with my life. This…

Matt's Film Site

May 24, 2017

Link to site. People would often ask me for movie recommendations, so, instead of being helpful I automated the process! I built this…

General Matt Update

May 13, 2017

This was meant to be long, heartfelt and honest, but the excitement I just experienced has flattened all that. University I finished college…

My New New Tab Page

May 09, 2017

Yesterday I pushed an update to my small Chrome extension. The extension changes chrome://newtab to a different HTML page, with a (hopefully…

I have an exam tomorrow...

May 09, 2017

But instead I spent most of a night setting this little thing up. I don’t expect to write here much, but thought it might be something to…