How I learned to re-map keys in MacOS with Karabiner — The Son Of A Tilde For many MacOS users, keyboard shortcuts make or break the experience. I’m personally not too crazy about them, but there are a few that I use regularly: Cmd+Tab to switch between applications Cmd+Tilde (~) to switch between windows of the same single application Cmd+Space to access apps (mostly just the…

I'm fascinated by how so many articles on the exact same topic can continue to be fresh and full of insights. The closing descriptions of the current state of the tech industry hits particularly hard - here's hoping we can (collectively) tunnel our way out of this mess!

For both Windows and MacOS, somewhat more convoluted than expected — AWS Cloud Development Kit makes it super easy to compress and deploy a Lambda layer: const layer = new LayerVersion(stack, 'sample-layer', { code: Code.fromAsset('./layers/build/sample-layer'), ... }); But how do we prepare the layer folder in the first place? Building Binary Python Dependencies For AMD64 And ARM64 Lambda Layers Specifically, a Psycopg Python Lambda Layer For SQLAlchemy And Postgresawstip.com

CircleCI’s caching is wonky, here’s a way around the weirdness — Problem 1: Dynamic Cache Keys Caching Dependencies - CircleCI This document is a guide to caching dependencies in CircleCI pipelines.circleci.com Let’s begin by reading the documentation on CircleCI caching keys and templates. This is where we learn about cache keys, eg. myapp-{{ checksum "package-lock.json" }}, which enable you to relate your cache to the specific contents of a file (amongst other things).

When you’re stuck on a version that’s older than the docs and you just can’t reference *anything* — I didn’t expect this to be so difficult to figure out, so I’m posting it here in the hopes it helps someone else not burn lots of time on something that — as usual — I would have expected to be built-in and straightforward. Summary I’ve created a Lambda function under…

An introductory JavaScript example for the Testcontainers-uninitiated using the kafkajs library — You may well be sensing a theme. In the case of Kafka, there is a module for the Node.js Testcontainers, but I ran into a few sharp edges getting tests set up on my Macbook M1* so I thought I’d share my results with the rest of the class. *…

An introductory JavaScript example for the Testcontainers-uninitiated using the amqplib library — Testcontainers are great, but there’s no RabbitMQ module for the Node.js Testcontainers and getting a container set up properly wasn’t as intuitive as I would have expected… so here’s a simple sample for getting RabbitMQ Testcontainers up and running using the GenericContainer along with a relevant wait strategy:

I 100% agree that we need licensing, not just to ensure some kind of professional standard but also to protect developers from being forced to go against those standards by employers who care only about short-term bottom-line decisions. Imagine what a different world this would be if a software developer's license was on the line every time he hacked a workaround instead of building to good design principles! Imagine being incentivized to refuse poor, rushed jobs?

Still kicking, 23 years later! — A WORD ON THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REFERRED TO IN THIS ARTICLE: It is my understanding that there is nothing illegal about following the instructions contained herein. Not only does American McGee’s Alice fall under the category of “abandonware”, but the full content was originally included in Alice: Madness Returns and it appears that its removal was not intentional.