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Aran Wilkinson /about /posts /now /experiments /resume About Posted on 2019-03-23 Hey, I'm Aran. I'm a software engineer based in Huddersfield, UK.I mostly work in Go, building backend services, data pipelines, and event-driven systems.

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Press release The Globe and Mail 2 months ago
Can Aran Defense Buyout Bolster Ondas' Sovereign Defense Strategy?
Detailed price information for Ondas Inc (ONDS-Q) from The Globe and Mail including charting and trades.
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News The Jerusalem Post JPost.com 2 months ago
Ondas expands Israel operations with $33.9m Aran Defense deal The Jerusalem Post
The transaction comes as Aran Defense's revenues have grown. The division generated an estimated $17m. in revenue in 2025, up from approximately $12m. in 2024.
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Blog 2 months ago
Using age to keep Headcode's deployment secrets in Git
In my practical guide to age , I covered the commands for encrypting and decrypting files. This post is about what happens when those commands become part of a real deployment. Headcode has a small collection of secrets that the application needs to run.
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News the Guardian 2 months ago
Metroid at 40: happy birthday to Samus Aran, gaming's greatest badass and my personal heroine
Being a woman who loves video games has often felt lonely, like being on a hostile planet - but Metroid's female space hunter has been with me all the way
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Blog 3 months ago
Owning the Harness
Over the past year I've started noticing something in the conversations I have with others when talking about AI usage at work. Ask someone how their company is handling AI tooling and you'll almost always get one of two answers. Either they've gone all i
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Blog 4 months ago
Consuming a real-time feed reliably
When you're ingesting a continuous external stream - live transit data, market ticks, IoT telemetry, whatever - the consumer's job and the job of interpreting what was consumed are tempting to bundle together. They shouldn't be. This is the pattern behind
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Blog 4 months ago
Headcode started as a project to learn UK rail data
It now has eight live endpoints , a tiered pricing page and an alpha banner warning people the schemas might still move under them. None of that was the plan. The plan was to understand how UK rail data actually fits together, and to work out how to use a
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News abcnews 5 months ago
After five days in a dark cave, a scientist emerged with life-changing insights
Spending big money to do nothing in the dark is on the rise. Scientist Kiana Aran chronicled what happened to her when she tried it.
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Blog 5 months ago
Introducing Headcode: A Unified API for UK Rail Data
UK rail data is brilliantly open and freely available. It is also completely fragmented across dozens of discrete, historically siloed sources. If you want to build an application that tracks trains, you have to piece together obscure feeds from the Rail
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