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API Gateway Backed By SQS Featuring CORS

API Gateway Backed By SQS Featuring CORS

I show how you can return dynamic headers based on the request origin to satisfy CORS when API gateway is setup with an AWS service instead of a proxy lambda

Declarative VS Imperative programming

Declarative VS Imperative programming

If you don't know what this means, Then you should read this article. We explore the differences between two different paradigms and the effects they have on our code. Do you have a preference?

Graphql Directives

Graphql Directives

For the past few weeks I have been diving more and more into graphql. One of the things I learned about was Graphql directives. The very first thing I thought of once I understood the concept of them was Auth. Given that Apollo Federation is on the horizon I got

Wake on LAN with Ubiquiti

Wake on LAN with Ubiquiti

I've recently needed to move my computer into a different room other than my office for a while. And while I have it in this room, I'd like it to not be on all the time. My desktop can suck a bit of power just idling and I've done this

Pop!_OS on Hyper V

Pop!_OS on Hyper V

I've briefly scoured the internet for a solution for this and haven't found any. With any regard to any credit to my name, I figured I would give this a go and provide yet another soon to be outdated guide on how to use hyper-v and PoP_OS. Given that

Mission: dot files

Mission: dot files

Since I began working, I've had people I worked with talk about their development environment and how they have aimed to make their process of picking up a user story and getting it finished, more streamlined. Some of the main traits that I've seen with these people are their desire

Angular 1 infinite ng-click

Angular 1 infinite ng-click

Never thought I would be back here talking about angular. But here we are nonetheless. For the last year I have been in charge of a project that has been the literal definition of a disaster. Besides the long story about why, I just wanted to take a moment to

Hapi 17+ & Joi Verbose Error Messages

Hapi 17+ & Joi Verbose Error Messages

With Hapi Version 17 they disabled sending verbose Joi messages back to the client. They said in certain cases with Joi returning the user input, it can potentially create XSS attacks. So they disabled it by default. But there is an easy way to re-enable the functionality for testing purposes.

Babel@7 and regeneratorRuntime issues for Node 4 and how to fix them

Babel@7 and regeneratorRuntime issues for Node 4 and how to fix them

I had a logging tool I built for us to start measuring metrics with logs. One of the things that I needed to do was support down to Node 4. Sadly that means most of the great features of Node 8 like async/await string.includes and Object.entries are

Upgrading Perforce p4merge on Mac OS X Mojave

Upgrading Perforce p4merge on Mac OS X Mojave

I recently upgraded to Mac OS X Mojave and have been enjoying it quite a bit. Well until I had an issue with `git mergetool`. p4merge stopped working with git. When I would run the command I got the window for manually merging files. The worst thing was that it

Eslint-Watch Origins

Eslint-Watch Origins

It's been awhile since I have posted anything on my blog. I felt like with the recent news of Eslint-Watch jumping up to 40,000 downloads a month it might be time to talk a little bit about the motivation behind why it was created. Eslint-Watch was created because of

Javascript dates, scoping and change events

Javascript dates, scoping and change events

I have previously written about Javascript issues that may arise while you are developing a javascript app. For example if you have a server and it is serving Javascript and html. Chances are you are needing to send down information to the view. So I have discussed the various ways

NodeJs Runescape API

NodeJs Runescape API

It's been 4 years that this project has been around, and it still finds ways to make my mind spin. The project was originally written just in excel using data queries. I moved it to Google spreadsheets using similar commands. After I found that Google cached the results I decided

Angular $watch VS. Event Based Processes

Angular $watch VS. Event Based Processes

Is there a pandemic with Angular $watch functions? In a current project that I am working with, there would seem to be one. So with this post, I would like to look more into Angular $watch and possible alternatives for it. What kind of drawbacks you can get with $watch

Passing variables from the server to Browser

Passing variables from the server to Browser

Recently I have been struggling with trying to figure out a good practice for sending information to the view from the server. The main issue I had with this was that I couldn't seem to figure out a good practice for sending some information down without it being exposed on

Who decided single password field registrations were a good idea?

Who decided single password field registrations were a good idea?

I can't say how many accounts I have on the Internet. Based off of how many accounts I have created it would seem that I at least create 2 accounts per day. That is a lot of accounts per month and per year. Reason for doing this is because I

Javascript Performance and Snippets part 2

Javascript Performance and Snippets part 2

I have a bit more time playing around with JavaScript and I decided that it is time to post another JavaScript tips and tricks/gotchas. In today's blog I will be going over some of efficiencies and draw backs of using libraries that I have become aware of. Also I

Poo.pi Project Code

Poo.pi Project Code

Coding for the Raspberry Pi has been surprisingly simple. (I say that now, as I worked for several hours not making much progress until the very end) I wasn't expecting to be able to get the code out in a day. Today I will show how you can interact with

Poo.pi Project Software

Poo.pi Project Software

Today's article is about setting up the software on the Raspberry Pi (RPi). I will also be going over some pitfalls I ran into when trying to install some of this software. So without delaying further let us begin! The list of software you will need is: * OS (Raspbian) * Python

Poo.pi Project Setup

Poo.pi Project Setup

Today I am going to go through the beginning steps that I took to create my Raspberry Pi Poo.py project. If you haven't heard about what this is I have written about it previously: [Clicky] Pitfalls Here are some potential pitfalls that I wasn't quite expecting when starting this

Raspberry Poo.Pi Project

Raspberry Poo.Pi Project

I am not sure if I have stated this enough but I currently work for Towers Watson. I am a software engineer and I really enjoy what I do. There are sometimes where I can get fairly frustrated with what I am working on in or out of work but

Node.js

One of the many reasons why I really like working for Towers Watson is being able to expand my knowledge and grow. It has been quite challenging because who am I to be teaching something to some of these very seasoned developers? Regardless I try my best. So I have

BTSync and SFW Wallpapers

BTSync and SFW Wallpapers

There are a lot of technologies that I have ended up following since their start. Bitcoin I started following back when they were only a few dollars. I would constantly be talking about them and how they work. BTSync is another technology that I follow pretty closely. There have been

Minecraft Updater Batch Scripting

Minecraft Updater Batch Scripting

I am sure with the amount of people out there learning to code, there is at least a good number of people who have run across shell scripting. A batch (bat for short) script is Microsoft's attempt at bash scripting (unix and linux). It can be pretty useful but the

Runescape Data Mining

Runescape Data Mining

As I try to learn various languages I will think of projects to work on. One of those languages that I thought of was Google code project. Most of them are limited javascript projects integrated in with Google's Docs. I first starting thinking about doing something in docs when I