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martin hicks software developer and aws consultant home about journal projects software developer aws consultant hello i m martin a software developer and entrepreneur based in manchester england i m a co founder of si novi where we build cloud native applications and consult on aws architecture i also build tools for dynamodb including dynoxide and nubo latest posts 5th may 2026 dynoxide patch notes 0 9 10 to 0 9 12 notes from the latest stretch of dynoxide patch releases what shipped what got fixed and the takeaways read article 2nd may 2026 a year with my intel n100 home server what changed a year on from the 250 n100 server build the boring infrastructure won unbound got removed tailscale earned its place and the disk debate i lost sleep over turned out not to matter read article 13th april 2026 building a dynamodb conformance suite aws doesn t ship a conformance suite for dynamodb emulators so i built one 526 tests ground truthed against real dynamodb dynoxide passes all of them dynamodb local fails 42 read article 6th april 2026 dynoxide 0 9 8 fixing the orphan problem if you backgrounded dynoxide in an npm script killing the dev server left it running 0 9 8 fixes three root causes so the process actually dies when it should read article view all articles get in touch hello martinhicks dev looking for someone to work with on your next project head over to sinovi uk contact and we ll arrange a call to discuss your plans follow me github hicksy bluesky martinhicks dev mastodon martinhicks indieweb social linkedin martin hicks work history company si novi date 2018 present role founder principal consultant company tariff st human date 2011 2018 role director software development company iconic mobile date 2010 2012 role director mobile app development company freelance date 2008 2011 role web mobile developer company via studios date 2005 2008 role web developer recently played planet dust bad company uk book of the bad judged by colour heard by sound seen by blind goldie ring of saturn on hold the xx i see you deluxe soul pride neptune xen cuts 15 step radiohead in rainbows view on last fm home about journal projects 2026 martin hicks all rights reserved privacy notice cookie preferences this site uses cookies for anonymous analytics accept decline