Part of my vacation time I like to spend learning and playing with tech. As I spend every waking moment of my professional day in the “frontend” space, I wanted to step back into the “backend” space and my roots of PHP and explore what’s new with PHP8 in particular. Read more…
This has been a challenging year for all parents, but we are fortunate to be in a situation where we can be technologically creative. Our daughter’s birthday occurred right before the Covid-19 lockdown, but our son was not so lucky, and we wanted to be creative and make the most Read more…
I’m nearly complete with my transition back full-time from MAC to Windows, but I’m still not ready to switch to Android from iOS. The issue is that Apple now stores images as .HEIC which is far from standard, and there’s no mechanism to easily convert, especially on Windows. I managed Read more…
My situation Lambda+API Gateway function to fetch S3 image and resize if query params are present. For example /path/to/jake.jpg responds with the image directly from S3, whereas /path/to/jake.jpg?width=200 responds with a resized version of the image. This is then all fronted with Cloudfront to optimize performance for an abundance of Read more…
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples Mother Teresa It’s literally the least we can do as developers, but it’s worth doing. Here’s how to simply rename your master branch to main (or anything but master) and update Read more…
One of the things I ask all the engineers on my teams to do as part of their onboarding (and a part of ongoing team collaboration) is to “eat your own dogfood.” What that means for my AWS Amplify is they’re asked to create their own application and use the Read more…
A very simple buildspec.yml using a shell script to fetch an environment file from S3. You’ll want to make sure permissions are setup on the S3 bucket to properly manage this from CodeBuild.
I find this data to be immensely valuable at helping to drive decisions and thought processes around how and why various things are more or less important. Particularly with respect to the factors that are most important to developers and what will lead to happier and more satisfied colleagues, I find this report to be of tremendous value.
First, we need to setup our workstation to have a docker image that we can use to mimic codebuild in the wild. For this I’ve setup nodejs, but you can browse the binaries and freely use whichever you want. Below is a simple list of commands to get setup. Note Read more…
In lieu of a more comprehensive post I’d love to share some of my recent thoughts from LinkedIn.