After reading more about async Rust and talking with some programmer friends, the consensus was to "go with Go". I've been learning the language using only resources on go.dev and have already written a web server for juran.io without even considering a 3rd party framework or library. Likes To paraphrase Rob Pike, Go is about different...

Apropos of my recent musings on how to build a new project so that it can be easily run and maintained in the future, I see this HN thread "The tragedy of running an old Node project", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42175316. With Rust's crate ecosystem, I was worried there would be a lot of mentions of horror stories but so far ...

I'd like to provide a compiled binary for the server in order to provide a better guarantee that the app can be used in the future. I'd also like a language that avoids python 2 -> 3 upgrade breakage, so ideally, someone can also modify the code in the future. My first instinct is to write the server in Javascript because I already kno...

It's time for another project. This time I'll be focusing on scratching a work itch. Juran is test management tool named after Dr Joseph Juran who was "The Architect of Quality" Read more about him at https://www.juran.com/about-us/dr-jurans-history/. My experience with Test Management tools I needed to find a test management tool for ...

These are more terse than I prefer but I'm tired and want to capture some interesting points learned tonight: - When triggering a lambda function on Put, consider enabling "Multipart upload completed" if your objects are large. If you don't see the event generated, check the size of the upload and then check this setting :) - There are...

Yet again staring at VS Code and wondering why "yaml" is blue and "toml" is green. Maybe toml is better? VS Code is clearly communicating some information with the coloring but it wasn't totally apparent. Some googling led to the semantic token classification and a way to inspect said tokens: Open the command palette, run "Developer: I...

I've successfully built an API Gateway integrated with Lambda which in turn writes out to S3. The gateway is also integrated with a Cognito user pool and I've even been able to pass the claim subject all the way back to S3 for use in partitioning the bucket. Really sweet! The next item on my list has been to get the configuration out o...

I've been struggling to figure out a mis-configuration in my SAM/OpenAPI extension related to an API Gateway Authorizer definition. The template is valid according to "sam validate" but "sam deploy" returns an error. I think it's probably a yaml/ref problem because I'm referencing from the OpenAPI definition to the SAM template. It wou...

Just a quick note about my own ignorance of this week - Ubuntu and derivatives all depend heavily on Python I had forgotten this fact and while trying to fix an install problem with cfn-lint had reinstalled Python 3. This broke my entire system including network connectivity and I had to reinstall from the Live CD. 😫

I wanted to restrict my MongoDb Atlas cluster to an IP whitelist and with the Heroku free-tier that requires using a socks proxy but womp womp Mongoose/MongoDB does not currently support that type of connection and no real progress has been made on the feature request.

forEach expects a synchronous function! forEach does not wait for promises ! Additional reading • Array.prototype.forEach() • for statement • for...of statement

I have some rough code ready to deploy but have been struggling to get authentication working with the aws-sam configuration so I decided to give Amplify another shot again. I've been trying to follow https://github.com/aws-amplify/amplify-js-samples/tree/main/samples/vue/auth/authenticator but hit these problems 1. npm start reference...

Hooking up AWS Amplify auth (using Cognito under the covers) allowed me to get signup/verify/login elements built pretty quickly, although I made the mistake of assuming the sign up promise would resolve to something meaningful (like a Cognito user) but instead it gives 'SUCCESS'. Here's my commit realizing that: https://github.com/jrn...

Each project has a pretty consistent setup and I’m digging the tooling in the Node world (eslint, prettier, etc). The number of dot files and other config chaff is building though… • editorconfig • eslintignore • eslintrc.js • prettierignore • prettierrc It becomes a bit tedious to setup a new project each time to the point we’re I’ve ...

MDN never disappoints and I find this part of their async/await guide the most interesting: Async/await makes your code look synchronous, and in a way it makes it behave more synchronously… This means that your code could be slowed down by a significant number of awaited promises happening straight after one another. Here’s a slightly ...

TLDR: Pay attention to the region set for the AWS web console. I’ve been deploying all of my sample projects using various AWS services like S3 static hosting and Amplify. Today I wanted to review the Amplify setup. I logged into the AWS console but when I navigated to the service page the ‘getting started’ splash screen appeared like ...

I’ve decided to take a detour in the loc8r project and use Vue instead of Angular on the frontend. I’m spending time today running through the Vue 3 tutorial and bumped into Yet Another Cool Javascript Feature: function shorthand. ES5 convention: const app = Vue.createApp({ data: function() { return { product: 'Socks' }; } }); ES6 conv...

I’m nearing the end of chapter 6 in the Getting MEAN book and writing a REST function to delete locations from Mongo using Mongoose. The book recommends using findOneAndRemove(), while the Mongoose Guide recommends delete operations. Some further reading of findOneAndDelete() gives this weak recommendation: “This function differs sligh...

I took another break from VSCode to continuing playing around with NeoVim and coc.vim. The initial testing had pretty cool results, like showing basic lint warnings. Next was to get some of the doc popups like this: When learning new tools I typically start at the beginning of the README and just learn as much as I can front to back. I...

I’m using Model.findById a lot when updating locations and their reviews in MongoDB. The +Getting MEAN+ book covers the 3 scenarios you’ll encounter in your callback: db.Location.findById(id).select('_id name').exec( (error, location) => { if (error) { console.log(`got error: ${error}`); //return 404 } else { if (location) { console.lo...

Here’s the original snippet from the updateAverageRating function which uses Array.reduce to count all the review ratings. const total = location.reviews.reduce( (accumulator, rating) => { return accumulator + rating; }); My code had two problems which left me puzzled in the debugger for a bit. • Why was rating a MongoDb document inste...

This morning I was using locate to find some configuration files, and I wanted to edit them directly in Vim. locate config.xml | xargs vim -R Vim starts but gives this warning: Warning: Input is not from a terminal When you exit Vim, you’ll find your terminal is probably borked. You can use reset. Looking for the cause of the problem, ...

This is a my first blog post on https://hey.com/world/. "Blog via email" is a pretty great idea and something I'll try to use more often. I was struggling with my previous blog platform in part because writing was not instantaneous. For now I'll import my old posts and then see if I can more easily create new ones when the muse appears...