Development thoughts

Custom Login With Nextjs and Amazon Cognito Some prerequisites In this tutorial I assume you have yarn or npm installed and you can translate commands from one to the other. I will be using yarn here. I also assume that...
Create and Verify a New User on a Cognito User Pool If you just created a new Cognito User Pool and you want to add a new user fear not. You can add that user using the cognito interface but you won't be able to do much with it...
An introduction to emacs via Spacemacs
An introduction to emacs via Spacemacs Why Emacs I'm not going to bore you with things like "It's made in the 70s" and "It's super powerful" or any of those facts. For me it was because of...
Vi basics. Or how to quit vi Lately I've been teaching myself a little bit of VI magic and migrating my writing to Spacemacs as an editor. I'll be writing more about Spacemacs in the future so bare with...
Seek first to understand, then to be understood
Seek first to understand, then to be understood Most people don't listen to understand, they listen with the intend to reply.
2020 keeping only the positives My friend Sam posted this tweet the other day and she did inspire me. I, too, did a lot of memorable things this year. Positive things that I want to focus on. We had enough...
TypeScript: Supercharging enums with modules. When using a language like Java you can use enums to do some very interesting things. For example a Java enum can look like so: public enum Directions{ EAST ("E"),...
Moving from a Macbook Pro laptop to a Linux PC. The beggining of a journey. I remember it was the early 2000s when I was reading on the web that this year is going to be the year of the linux on the desktop. Suffice to say that this year kept coming...
TypeScript: How to check for types. Using tagged unions. Working with TypeScript has been amazing. One of the most common things I've been finding my self checking was whether one variable is of a certain type. Let's look at an...
Serving optimized images with AWS S3, API Gateway and CloudFront. I like photography and I like having a dedicated space to share my photos along with a little story behind it. Currently that space is a self hosted Wordpress website, with...