Hi to all my readers!

I recently decided to take more time out of my work to play with technologies and have fun with programming 🙂

This blog will follow my adventures.

I don’t really have any precise idea, or field, of what I’ll play with. My background is mostly with backend services and networking, I will probably fiddle with things that are completely different. Some should revolve around Linux/Ruby, maybe I will get into bigger projects that are web-based, android apps, frameworks, etc. One thing is for sure, I want to contribute to other people’s open source projects.

That should be it for my current goals on this blog, I should try to write a few times a week, but it’ll depend on my load at work. One thing is for sure: I plan on writing a monthly overview of what I worked on in that month, to make me accountable and to force me to make progress.

Any feedback is welcome!

Currently on my E-Reader

I'm currently reading Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners. I got this book in a HumbleBundle deal a while back. As the name suggest, it looks really basic, but contains information about a lot of libraries.

Latest posts

• Deploying an AWS lambda for Alexa using Serverless (3/5/2021) Posted in: alexa to rpi - Deploying a Lambda linked to Alexa using SAM has a few weird quirks. Therefore, here is how I ended up deploying an AWS lambda for Alexa using Serverless. Continue Reading
• Deploying an AWS lambda for Alexa using SAM (2/19/2021) Posted in: alexa to rpi - Deploying an AWS lambda manually can be painful. Here is how I ended up deploying an AWS lambda for Alexa using SAM, the AWS Serverless Application Model. Continue Reading
• Playing with a native C extension for Node.js (2/5/2021) Posted in: node.js - I've been working with Node.js more recently and decided it's time to start playing with a native C extension for Node.js.Here is how it ended up. Continue Reading
• Making AWS Lambda deploy faster using layers (1/22/2021) Posted in: alexa to rpi - Deploying a NodeJS Lambda to AWS can be quite slow when using libraries. Here is how I ended up making AWS Lambda deploy faster using layers. Continue Reading
• Storing data in Alexa-triggered Lambda (1/8/2021) Posted in: alexa to rpi - While playing with Alexa, I wanted to have both session-based and permanent storage. Here is how I ended up storing data in Alexa-triggered Lambda. Continue Reading
• Test in-development Alexa Skill with an Echo device (12/11/2020) Posted in: alexa to rpi - I was having issues with an Echo device when playing with my Alexa Skill. Here is how I managed to test in-development Alexa Skill with an Echo device Continue Reading
• AWS Lambda triggered by catch-all Alexa Skill (11/27/2020) Posted in: alexa to rpi - In the context of trying to control my RaspberryPi with my Echo devices, this post outlines how I got an AWS Lambda triggered by catch-all Alexa Skill Continue Reading
• Using a reverse SSH tunnel to access a RaspberryPi (11/13/2020) Posted in: alexa to rpi - In order to securely connect from AWS to a RaspberryPi in my house, here is how I ended up using a reverse SSH tunnel to access a RaspberryPi Continue Reading
• A tale of C++ native Ruby and RAII (10/30/2020) Posted in: ruby - A tale of C++ native Ruby and RAII: using RAII to time function execution and using rake-compiler with C++ for native Ruby Continue Reading
• Using rake-compiler to build native Ruby extensions (10/16/2020) Posted in: ruby - This post presents details on how I ended up using rake-compiler to build native Ruby extensions in order to interact with hardware. Continue Reading