Polyfills gone rogue

September 26, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

GitHub Actions Could Be So Much Better — GitHub Actions provides a fantastic and useful service, but the developer experience leaves a lot to be desired, particularly when debugging them. If you’ve been frustrated with figuring out Action and setting up your own workflows, you’ll…

Deploying container application using Amazon CodeCatalyst and AWS App Runner

September 25, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Introduction Amazon CodeCatalyst provides a collaboration space where developers easily build applications and streamline the deployment process. It integrates with container application services such as AWS App Runner, making containerized application deployments efficient and straightforward. Using CodeCatalyst’s native CI/CD workflow actions, development teams swiftly roll…

How to import existing resources into AWS CDK Stacks

September 22, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Introduction Many customers have provisioned resources through the AWS Management Console or different Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, and then started using AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) in a later stage. After introducing AWS CDK into the architecture, you might want to import some…

Implementing GitFlow with Amazon CodeCatalyst

September 21, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Amazon CodeCatalyst is a unified software development service for building and delivering applications on AWS. With CodeCatalyst, you can implement your team’s preferred branching strategy. Whether you follow popular models like GitFlow or have your own approach, CodeCatalyst Workflows allow you to design your development…

Microsoft spills the tea on TypeScript

September 21, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

▶  TypeScript Origins: The Documentary — You know you’ve made it when you get your own documentary! This has just dropped but is well produced, packed with stories from TypeScript’s co-creators, users, and other folks at Microsoft, and kept me entertained. It goes particularly deep into…

Best Practices for Writing Step Functions Terraform Projects

September 20, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Terraform by HashiCorp is one of the most popular infrastructure-as-code (IaC) platforms. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service that helps developers use AWS services to build distributed applications, automate processes, orchestrate microservices, and create data and machine learning (ML) pipelines. In this blog,…

Getting AI to build your React components

September 20, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

v0: ‘An AI Tool That’s Effectively Midjourney for React’ — An interesting experiment from Vercel where you can submit prompts like “a pricing page for a SaaS” or “a contact form” and it returns copy-and-paste friendly shadcn/ui + Tailwind CSS code for React apps. It’s…

Does Node need a mascot of its own?

September 19, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Does Node.js Need a Mascot? — Go has its cute gopher, Deno has a dinosaur, Bun has, well.. a bun, but what does Node have? Nothing official, as such, and Matteo Collina ponders whether we should change that. Most of the suggestions seem tongue in…