(I’ll be honest, I kind of watched this in the background) I had fairly high hopes for this film – it had good reviews and seemed fun. But it didn’t entirely work for me. The “gentleman villain” parts kind of worked and gave an okay backbone to the film. But whilst fun, it just lacked a bit of life. There’s an elite cast on display and they all do great (Kristin Dunst especially), but the film felt pointless at times 50%

Why did no one tell me you’re not required to use Route 53 for DNS if you’re hosting a website on S3/CloudFront‽

I have quite a few websites. They’re small, static and don’t get much traffic. So S3’s pay-as-you-go pricing works well for me. It costs me a fraction of a dollar a month.

Or it would, if it wasn’t for Route 53, which charges a flat $0.50/mo for every single domain, no matter how much traffic it gets. It accounts for ~95% of my AWS bill.

Well, I randomly discovered that you can use Cloudflare for DNS (I thought if you were using S3/CloudFront you had to remain in the AWS ecosystem for the DNS).

I can’t wait to start transferring my sites DNS to Cloudflare tomorrow.

In a recent post on lowering phone usage, I recommended playing chess. But I haven’t actually played chess for ages. So I thought I’d put my money where my mouth is and play. And it was lovely.

I get an energy crash between 15:00-18:00 and am often tempted to scroll on my phone. Chess was a pleasant replacement. Mentally challenging, but also relaxing. Sitting there, waiting for my opponent to go, was quiet and peaceful. I briefly put some music on in the background, but quickly turned it off – I was enjoying the quiet too much.

I can see myself get into chess more regularly. I was pretty terrible today. I was matched against fellow newbies and still mostly lost. Though winning in my final match was a great feeling.

If you wanna play with me, my username on lichess.org is clowes – add me.