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/NodeJS, maybe I will get into bigger projects that are web-based, android apps, frameworks, etc. Not completely certain yet. TBD 🙂

Right now, my plan is to write once every two weeks. I’ve been doing this for a little while and seem to be able to keep it going!

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

• Easily deploy CloudFormation stacks (4/30/2021) Posted in: cfhelper - Introducing cfhelper, a small tool to simplify usage of CloudFormation. Wraps around configuration, changesets, and abstracts create vs update of a stack. Continue Reading
• Serverless Loose Ends (4/16/2021) Posted in: serverless - Here is how I ended up fixing two Serverless loose ends: make simple project deployment faster and using the same S3 bucket for all your projects. Continue Reading
• Serverless Plugin for S3 security and Git status (4/2/2021) Posted in: serverless - Serverless is highly extensible. Therefore, I wanted to play with its plugin system. Here is how I wrote a Serverless Plugin for S3 security and Git status. Continue Reading
• Service Discovery Through Lambda Extension (3/19/2021) Posted in: serverless - I read about Lambda extensions recently and decided to explore the technology. My first scenario is a poor-man Service Discovery Through Lambda Extension. Continue Reading
• 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