Thoughts on AWS Amplify
A belated writeup on my experience working with Amplify.
Blog
2024
I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and was Charged $1,100
An interesting thing happens when you follow the official Amplify guide.
2020
How to Automagically Run Your Scripts
It’s a guide to cron.
An Introduction to Search Engine Optimization
Optimize your site for search engines, or something like that.
When to use UseEffect
useEffect is for side effects.
Understanding API Pagination
Any JSON API that holds a large list of data will give it to you through pagination. Returning ten million items at once will take a very long time. Instead ...
An Introduction to Redis for the Junior Developer
You may have heard of Redis.
Preparing for Nontechnical Questions in a Tech Interview
More advice from someone who claims to know what they are doing.
Improving your Website Preview Cards on LinkedIn
LinkedIn has a nice feature of “unfurling” links. When you add a URL in a post or your “featured” profile section, LinkedIn will show a small preview of the ...
Hooking Git
Hooks are an amazingly useful feature of git. Once your repository gets to a medium size, you may want to make a few quick checks whenever you commit. For ex...
Debugging Medium Images
A Dive Into Some Odd Aspects of Medium’s Platform
Navigating an Unfamiliar Codebase (with Github & VSCode)
As a follow-up for my previous post, I thought I would look at VSCode from a more intermediate level. Specifically, getting into a larger codebase. Once you ...
Exporting Multiple Docker Images Alongside Docker-Compose
You can’t export containers together in one larger container. You can, however, maintain the link between them with docker-compose.
Python Virtual Environments and Beyond
An overview of Python virtual environments.
Bridging Callbacks and Async/Await
How to use async/await with legacy functions.
Uploading Files to Amazon S3 With a Rails API Backend and Javascript Frontend
An in-depth guide of how to programmatically integrate S3, Rails, and Javascript. Some setup is focused on Heroku, but this can be used for any Rails API bac...
Thinking About Services
Thoughts about service-based architecture.
Linting for Fun and Profit
An overview of the usefulness of linters.
The Symbols In Your package.json File
An explanation of the random symbols you will find in your package.json file.
Dynamic Programming
An introduction to dynamic programming. This is one of the final concepts for basic algorithms.
Understanding Your Browser Fingerprint, Or, a Basic Introduction to Information Theory
An exploration of some math to determine the uniqueness of a browser fingerprint.
Blogging with Medium and Github Pages
I will discuss both Medium and GH pages as resources, and also give a guide in how to set up GH pages.
Tracking Your Browser Fingerprint
If you want to understand privacy on the web, fingerprinting is the next step after cookies.
An Opinionated Primer to Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code has a LOT of features, shortcuts, and tools. I am going to take a look at what I learned first, what I think is most useful, and my way to...
An Introduction to Multithreading
An introduction to the idea of multithreading. First we will talk about reasons for concurrency, then we will give examples.