Caffeine was quick to get through but a fascinating history lesson on a chemical that has become so intertwined in our lives that as I learned in the book we can hardly differentiate consciousness without it. Michael Pollan does a wonderful job of covering the rise of “western civilization” correlated Read more…
I recently upgraded the home setup to leverage my old Canon T6i as my new office “webcam” and replaced the Razer Kiyo because despite it being fantastic quality video, the auto-focus frankly sucks. I tried the EOS Webcam Utility which was incredibly simple and straight forward, but unfortunately a little Read more…
I recently forked a project from another developer (see CREDIT below) and rebuilt a mini serverless app to support dynamically resizing images with S3 and API Gateway. The project is available here: https://github.com/litwicki/lambda-resize-image lambda-resize-image An AWS Lambda Function to resize images automatically with API Gateway and S3 for imagemagick tasks. Read more…
One of my 2020 goals is to diversify outside of the standard 401k. This serves two purposes. Predominantly as a curious person I am interested in learning more about the markets and have the luxury of the means to do so. Secondly, financially speaking it’s just a good idea. I Read more…
I have long fancied myself a “backend engineer” and part of my checklist of personal growth after joining the AWS Amplify team was to force myself to get familiar with “frontend” development. ReactJS seemed an obvious and safe first step, so I started with react-boilerplate which accurately warns is not Read more…
The beer wish list: Boneyard Brewing Incredible Pulp Pale Ale – American Bone-A-Fide Pale Ale – American Rapid Transit IPA – International Hop-a-Wheelie IPA – American Notorious IPA³ IPA – Triple Mr. Centaur IPA – Triple Long-Boy Stout – Imperial / Double Suge Knite Stout – Russian Imperial Crux Fermentation Project Play Wave Pale Ale – American Krystal Read more…
I’ve been doing lots of onboarding lately for my teams, and so the ever changing onboarding script has yet another update.
Ironically for the western part of Washington State, snow is very uncommon. In fact so uncommon there are years we have gotten none at all. This year, however, has been a different story. February has been a record breaking month of snow and ice of what reminds me of my Read more…
This past weekend I was going through an old CD binder, just like this one pictured. What started out as a simple quick organization of my office turned into a dramatic trip down memory lane. In it I managed to find some old portfolio DVDs with some work I did Read more…
