Software developer & principal AWS consultant at Si Novi.
Creator of Dynoxide - an open source DynamoDB engine in Rust.
Building Nubo, a native DynamoDB client (it's pretty good!).
| Me | https://martinhicks.dev |
| Dynoxide | https://dynoxide.dev |
| GitHub | https://github.com/hicksy |
| Nubo | https://nubo.sinovi.uk |
I've open sourced a DynamoDB engine in Rust, backed by SQLite. ~3 MB, 15ms startup, 526 conformance tests against real DynamoDB. No JVM, no Docker. More at https://dynoxide.dev
It started as infrastructure for Nubo, a native DynamoDB client we're building at Si Novi - https://nubo.sinovi.uk
My son wanted a YouTube channel. I wanted to make sure I wasn't the bottleneck. Here's how I automated the entire weekly workflow with Python, the FPL API, Whisper, FFmpeg, and the YouTube Data API.
https://martinhicks.dev/articles/automating-bens-youtube-channel
Really proud that my son's stuck with his Premier League predictions YouTube channel all season (https://youtube.com/@BensPLPredictions).
The weekly workflow of creating slides, editing in iMovie and uploading was becoming a bit of a chore for me though.
Spent a few hours with Claude Code this afternoon building a Python pipeline to automate the tedious bits.
Fixtures from the FPL API, Whisper for transcribing his predictions, ffmpeg for encoding, YouTube API for uploading.
I had a Last.fm widget on my site in 2010. Fifteen years later, I brought it back as an Eleventy WebC component with SSR, live polling, and localStorage caching.
https://martinhicks.dev/articles/recently-played-lastfm-component
I had a Last.fm widget on my site in 2010. Fifteen years later, I brought it back as an Eleventy WebC component with SSR, live polling, and localStorage caching.
https://martinhicks.dev/articles/recently-played-lastfm-component
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