Hey there, I'm

Richard Neil Ilagan

but most people just call me Carding.

Welcome to my personal nook on the internet!

I write about things I'm doing + learning here on this site.
I very much enjoy speaking about technology as well.

I'm an apps system architect and software engineer, specializing in containers, serverless, and front/backend web apps development.

I most often work on the cloud building prototypes, so I tend to go through a lot of new tech very regularly. (Currently: Rust, Ruby on Rails and tinkering around with KiCad and Autodesk Fusion 360).

Let's chat! You can find me on Github, Mastodon, and Twitter.

Latest ramblings

2024 01/18 Configuring Paperless-ngx to monitor emails from a Proton Mail account
2023 12/22 I'm trying out Nobara Linux for my gaming PC
2023 01/19 Copying files to a volume on Fly.io
2022 12/05 I used ChatGPT instead of Stack Overflow today
2022 10/06 I'm building my own hitbox-style fightstick controller
2022 09/17 Build log: Vortex Pok3r hotswap mod
2022 08/03 Validation checks in AWS CDK constructs
2022 06/01 Zip files from Amazon S3 without saving them locally
2020 07/11 Tracing through your distributed applications using AWS X-Ray
2020 06/19 Working with the Amazon Chime SDK
2020 06/16 Benchmarking the AWS Graviton2 processors
2020 04/26 How to: Create a Remote Gaming Server using Parsec on AWS
2020 04/13 Setting up Microphone Audio Filters in OBS using Reaper plugins