Year: 2021

  • Notes from Microsoft Ignite Azure Developer Challenge

    Notes from Microsoft Ignite Azure Developer Challenge

    Microsoft Azure cloud computing service has grown steadily to challenge Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform but until now I hadn’t had a change to try it and see how it compares to other platforms I’ve used. So when I came across the Microsoft Ignite: Cloud Skills Challenge November 2021 I was sold and took the opportunity to…

  • Short notes on tech 50/2021

    Week 50 of 2021 Developer Tools secrets that shouldn’t be secretsWrite-up of a talk at CityJS covering i.a. console.log and VS Code. (from Web Design Weekly) 2021 Design Tools SurveyOverview of the most used design tools during 2021 Meet The Man Who Shoots At Birds All Day To Keep Them Off A Toxic Pit“If migrating…

  • Short notes on tech 45/2021

    Week 45 of 2021 Software Development Software Architecture Patterns: 5 minute readSome of the most important parts of the Software Architecture Patterns by Mark Richards. (from Hackernewsletter) React Aria: A headless UI component libraryA library of React Hooks that provides accessible UI primitives for your design system.… Jatka lukemista →

  • Short notes on tech 42/2021

    Week 42 of 2021 Software development How to win at CORSInteractive learning of CORS with The CORS Playground. Cloud No, we don’t use KubernetesAbly runs a large scale production infrastructure with Docker but uses “just” AWS EC2 instances and writes about should they use Kubernetes as their primary deployment platform at some point.… Jatka lukemista →

  • Short notes on tech 37/2021

    Week 37 of 2021 Software development Give me /events, not webhooks“This post clearly explains the benefits of using an /events endpoint + long polling. Simpler and more reliable than webhooks. On the web we don’t have much of a choice, most platforms support webhooks and few support event streams. For internal applications don’t go with…

  • Create secure code with Secure Code Bootcamp

    Create secure code with Secure Code Bootcamp

    Software development contains many aspects which the developer has to take care and think about. One of them is information security and secure code which affects the product and its users. There are different ways to learn information security and how to create secure and quality code and this time I’ll shortly go through what…

  • Short notes on tech 28/2021

    Week 28 of 2021 CSS CSS system colors“Jim Nielsen reveals the system colors we can use in CSS and how useful this can be for light and dark mode themes.” (from WDRL) Cloud The Gamer Guide to Playing Amazon Web Services (AWS)“This is such a nice article, sharing a getting started guide for AWS, in…

  • Starting with React Native and Expo

    For some time I’ve wanted to experiment with React Native and mobile development outside native iOS but there has always been something on the way to get really started with it. Recently I had time to watch React Europe 2020 conference talks and “On Expo and React Native Web” by Evan Bacon got me inspired.……

  • Short notes on tech 26/2021

    Week 26 of 2021 Team An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding How to run a meeting, and no, being the person who talks the most in the meeting is not the same thing as running itHow to write a design doc, take feedback, and drive it to resolution, in a reasonable…

  • Linting GraphQL Schema and queries

    Analyzing code for compliance with guidelines is one part of the code quality assuarance and automating it with tools like ESLint and binding the checks with build process is common and routine operation. But what about validating GraphQL schema and queries? Here are some pointers to tools you can use to start linting your GraphQL…