https://passivemodding.github.io/A personal blog for Lachlan Jaques 2023-12-12T13:44:04+11:00 Lachlan Jaques https://passivemodding.github.io/ Jekyll © 2023 Lachlan Jaques /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2023-10-13T03:00:00+11:00 2023-10-13T03:00:00+11:00 https://passivemodding.github.io/posts/custom-email-domains/ Lachlan Jaques

How I send and receive emails from my custom domain reliably using AWS SES, Cloudflare and Gmail In this post, I will be going over how I set up my custom domain to send emails with AWS SES and receive emails with Cloudflare Email Routing. I will also be going over how I set up Gmail to send emails from my custom domain. All for a few cents per year. The Challenges of Self-Hosting Despite wh...

2023-09-12T04:46:31+10:00 2023-09-12T04:46:31+10:00 https://passivemodding.github.io/posts/Build-a-Serverless-Sentiment-Analysis-Application-on-GCP-using-Pulumi-and-Dotnet/ Lachlan Jaques

Originally published on Medium What is Pulumi? Pulumi is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that allows you to define your infrastructure using code. Pulumi supports multiple languages and cloud providers. In this demo we will be using C# and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Semantically it feels similar to Terraform, however it lets you use your favourite programming language to define your infr...

2023-09-01T02:59:39+10:00 2023-09-01T02:59:39+10:00 https://passivemodding.github.io/posts/Build-a-Serverless-Sentiment-Analysis-app-on-GCP/ Lachlan Jaques

Originally published on Medium Image by storyset on Freepik What is Sentiment Analysis? Sentiment analysis is the process of determining whether a piece of writing is positive, negative or neutral. In this deployment we will use the Google Cloud Natural Language API to perform sentiment analysis on a piece of text. Real-world use cases of Sentiment Analysis Brand monitoring: Sentiment analysi...