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.

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

Taming A Wild Django Project, Part 2

Maneuvering in social space to improve the project