Tracking Original URL Through Authentication
If you read my other post about refreshing AWS tokens, then you probably have a use case for keeping track of the original requested resource while the user goes through authentication so you can route...
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SwiftGen with Image & Color Asset Catalogs
You might remember back in 2015 when iOS 9 was introduced, and we were finally given a way to manage all of our assets in one place with Asset Catalogs. A few years later, support for colors was...
View ArticleUsing Conftest to Validate Configuration Files
Conftest is a utility within the Open Policy Agent ecosystem that helps simplify writing validation tests against configuration files. In a previous blog post, I wrote about using the Open Policy...
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Up to Spec: JavaScript Numeric Separators
Numbers can be difficult to read in JavaScript, especially larger numbers. With Numeric Separators now making its way to stage four it’s more than likely going to be included in the next update to the...
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Setup Spring DataSource from values stored in AWS Secret Manager
I was tasked migrating an application to AWS recently. The company wanted the application to store the database credentials in AWS’s Secret Manager. The issue that I had is that if I setup a...
View ArticleReflections on Digital Transformation
For software professionals, it is critical to get a broad and diverse perspective on what is happening within our industry. One of the best ways to do this is to listen to technical podcasts that seek...
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Wrapping a GraphQL Service With a REST API
Use Case Background Providing a GraphQL service on top of REST APIs is a typical GraphQL use case (e.g., https://graphql.org/blog/rest-api-graphql-wrapper/). Doing so can dramatically improve...
View ArticleClean JSX structuring in React
A video guide on how to structure your JSX to make it easier to know when it’s appropriate to split out new components. This will help keep your React code smaller, cleaner, and more DRY.
View ArticleDevelop Quality Code
As software continues to dominate every facet of our lives, developers are faced with an ever-increasing pressure to produce bug free code. The responsibility of clean quality software falls upon...
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ML for Translating Dysarthria Speech (Pre-Part 1)
What is Dysarthria? Per the Mayo Clinic, Dysarthria occurs when the muscles you use for speech are weak or you have difficulty controlling them. Dysarthria often causes slurred or slow speech that can...
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Design Systems, Part 1 • Introduction
Series Introduction This is a series about Design Systems and Design System Initiatives. While User Interface (“UI”) Designers and User Experience (“UX”) Researchers may find this series beneficial,...
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TICK Stack Monitoring for the Non-Technical
TICK – Telegraf, Influx, Chronograf, and Kapacitor – is a method of monitoring your systems and applications. In this article, I discuss in non-technical terms what the difference is between TICK and...
View ArticlePerformance Test Liquibase Update
When doing a liquibase update to a database if you’re having performance issues, it can be hard to find out which updates are causing problems. If you need to measure the time to apply each sql...
View ArticleUnderstanding Mutual TLS Options in the Public Cloud
When delivering an API over the public internet via a cloud provider, some organizations and frameworks require mutual TLS verification as a part of the interaction for that API. Mutual TLS can be...
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Waypoint and JVM
What are we doing here? We’re going to to run Waypoint to build a Clojure web application, deploy it, and release it on a URL. Along the way, we’re going to see how it interacts with a DigitalOcean...
View ArticleVideo capture using WebRTC
Capturing the feed of a users camera can be a daunting undertaking involving one or multiple third party packages. Often we opt for prompting the user to upload the video or image we need, causing...
View ArticleARM Wrestling Its Way Into Mainstream Software Development
Nearly all smart phones have been running ARM-based processors for years. They provide superior power for the amount of power consumed, and thus extend battery life. With Apple’s recent release of the...
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Building a Better Mousetrap
Recently, my daughter (age 6) was into building “mousetraps” out of shoe boxes. These were more or less comfortable cardboard mouse houses complete with beds, rooms, everything a mouse could want or...
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Interpreting Spatial Data in the Age of COVID-19
As 2020 has come to an end, many are eager to leave the mess of COVID-19 behind with the new year and gain a fresh start. Unfortunately, new cases are still soaring across the United States and, even...
View ArticleRewriting files in Google Cloud Storage
Rewriting Files in GCP Note: even though this code is in Python, this should be the same idea in JavaScript, Go, etc. I wrote the following to copy a file from one Google Cloud Storage bucket to...
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