Simon Mayes software engineer · founder, Untether · climber

Index

Articles

Everything I've published here, by year. Software quality, developer experience, behaviours, and notes from building Untether.

2026

  1. Vibe-Coding Shareable, Infinitely Scalable Personal Apps

    Build genuinely useful, AI-powered personal apps with no backend at all — a static site, OAuth PKCE to the providers you already use, and OpenRouter for the smarts.

    vibe-coding · pkce · oauth · static-sites · ai

2025

  1. Software Quality: Adopting Common Industry Language

    Engineers don't talk about software quality — they get stuck arguing about test types. A case for the discipline, in plain language.

    software-quality

2024

  1. Introducing the AWS GitLab Helper

    A tool for GitLab Pipelines to fetch temporary credentials, secrets, and parameters from AWS using ABAC.

    ci-cd · aws · gitlab