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Just finished sailing the world aboard sailinghannahpenn.co.uk.

Now working at lightbug.io

Previously a staff software engineer working for Wikimedia Deutschland on various projects including Wikibase, Wikidata and MediaWiki.

My side projects are numerous, and you can read about them on a dedicated page.

I use the username “addshore” in most places, such as GitHub, Mastodon, Twitter, Keybase & Wikimedia. Hence the name of this site.

Take a look at my latest posts or various projects.

You can also get in touch with me using my contact page.

Latest Posts

  • Splitting a Terraform / Spacelift stack in 2
    A year or so ago, I imported a bunch of existing AWS resources into a Spacelift stack using Terraform. Parts of this stack included provisioning Github actions secrets from AWS into Github itself. Due to the way the Github provider and Github API work, I was starting to…
  • Vuetify app with Wikimedia OAuth login
    Do you often find yourself wanting to make a basic (or complex) web app that is client side only and will log users into Wikimedia sites with ease? Me to! I have been trying this every year or so, and it’s gradually been getting easier. This year it…
  • Visualizing Wikibase ecosystem, using wikibase.world
    In October last year, I wrote a post starting to visualize the connections between Wikibases in the ecosystem that had been found and collected on wikibase.world thanks to my bot that I occasionally run. That post made use of the query service visualizations, and in this post I’ll…
  • mwcli (a MediaWiki focused command line tool targeting developers) over the years
    mcwli includes the third of so generation of “developer environments” that I have made for MediaWiki over the years. You can see the backstory in this earlier post. Since the early days of 2022, there has been optional metric collection included within the mwcli tool. This metric collection…
  • Smart Home: 1.5 years of Aqara Temperature and Humidity Sensors
    As one of the initial steps in my smart home journey back in November 2023, I purchased a set of 12 Aqara Temperature and Humidity Sensors for £101 (approximately £8 each) from Aliexpress. Today, this same set is available for around £89, or £7.40 each. This was the…