20220202_obsidian
I Love Obsidian It’s the notetaking system I have been searching for for years. More later, but for now here is my config. Daily Template: --- creation-date: "<% tp.file.creation_date() %>" modification-date: "<% tp.file.last_modified_date("dddd Do MMMM YYYY HH:mm:ss") %>" the-date: "<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD", 0, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD") %>" the-week: "<% tp.date.now("YYYY", 0, tp.file.title, "YYYY")+"W"+tp.date.now("ww", 0, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD") %>" the-month: "<% tp.date.now("YYYY", 0, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD")+"M"+tp.date.now("MM", 0, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD") %>" the-quarter: "<% tp.date.now("YYYY", 1, tp.
Developer Projects, Pt 1
A friend of mine recently asked for a list of projects he could do to expand his skillset/try out other areas of development. This seemed like a thing worth sharing, so here is the list! Projects to Expand Developer Horizons Static Site: Blog It’s useful to know how static sites work, and how to build and deploy them quickly, because they are simple yet powerful. Need a marketing site for your new thing to gauge interest?
New Laptop Review
Dell XPS13 Dev Edition I got a new laptop! It’s a linux-default machine through Dell, the XPS13. Her name is Friday, and she looks like this: TLDR Mostly, I am very pleased with this laptop. Dell has gone the extra mile to make things “just work” out of the box, and added extra safety with a recovery partition. When plugged into a proper keyboard it’s a high-powered computer with modern amenities running Ubuntu flawlessly.
Book Review: The DynamoDB Book
This book is excellent. It is so worth the money. Get the $80 version and then decide if you want to upgrade.
Interactive, inspectable AWS resource graphs
Rendering a Cloudformation resource graph in-browser
CDK Workshop, with Graph Visualizations
AWS CDK is lovely
Serverless Cdk
Up and running with CDK and Serverless!
Vscode
My VSCode setup
Minikitty
Deploying an ECS service that uses RDS via Copilot
Fargate
Notes from starting with Fargate