Last week I spoke at TacoJS on “Serverless, what is it even?” You can find the slides online. It’s pretty much the same as I did at BrooklynJS, and people liked it! If you’re interested in me bringing something along those lines to a conference you’re organizing, let me know. In other happenings, I also […]
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Simple HTTP requests in Node (no packages)
0This was surprisingly difficult to find, so I’m writing a wee blog post about it! I was working on a project recently (more on that soon!) and didn’t want to have any dependencies because $REASONS. And I needed to make some AJAX requests. Most of the time in Node, it seems that require(‘request’) or another […]
Checking out Create React App: Create React Apps without* Configuration!
1I’ve recently used the create-react-app package a couple of times and I’m into it! The create-react-app package is an officially supported way to create an app with “a modern build setup with no configuration.” No configuration? Not really … from the user’s perspective, sure, but the configuration is just behind the scenes. Why? Ever thought […]
Thoughts on Cory Doctorow’s Keynote at HOPE XI
0This past weekend, I (finally!) got to check out the HOPE conference. I missed two years ago to various work nonsense (mostly being guilt-tripped about requesting funding for a “weird community conference” … whatever haters!). Totally worth it! Had an excellent time, met up with some Recursers, and frequently visited the Cinnamon Snail. I took […]
4 tips for being better at email introductions
1I do a fair number of email introductions. I hope you do too; if you don’t, consider how you could be helping more people by helping them connect with each other. The company I now work for, IOpipe, is in the Techstars NYC Summer 2016 cohort, and one of the very valuable things I’ve been […]
Angular 2 and Django too
6I gave a talk at Djangocon earlier this week on Angular 2 and Django REST – not so much an intro to Angular 2 (you can go through a tutorial for that), but talking about why Angular 2 is something to pay attention to, plus looking at how you might use Angular 2 and a […]
If you run Node on Lambda, you’re using Scott’s Node
0Found a curious thing today, while messing with Lambda. I was looking at some data that (among other things) logs the config for the node process (process.config), and saw something interesting. Hi, Scott! If you want to see this yourself, create a simple lambda function that logs the process config: ‘use strict’; exports.handler = (event, context, […]
Beyond the resume is in beta!! (and, more on writing books)
0It only took 9 months between an alpha release (the first mention on Twitter was in October), lots of edits (shoutouts to Katya and Christopher especially for their fantastic help!), re-reads, and completely changing publishing platforms, but it’s out! It’s not so different from the alpha, except for the part where it’s finished! 😉 Buy […]
Using JavaScript for on-demand functions with AWS Lambda
1I’ve recently started working often with AWS Lambda, one of the many providers you can use to do “serverless” programming, that is, writing apps without running your own infrastructure (if you want a quick overview of the “serverless” paradigm, there’s a nice one over here). The AWS Lambda documentation leaves something to be desired (as mocked […]
Troubles with interviews (and their solutions)
0This past week, I’ve conducted six free interview coaching sessions with developers. I offered the 30-minute sessions to subscribers to my list (you can get on that, if you want to be in the loop next time), and used Calendly to schedule the times. Why offer the sessions? I’ve given lots of interview advice (and […]