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Setting Up Syntax Highlighting in HubSpot CMS
September 21, 2024 – I've been building out our NearSt Engineering Blog over the last couple of days, and one of the things I ran into is the need to show...
Showing a Manage Subscriptions Button in React Native
December 29, 2023 – If you implement in-app purchases in your app, you might want to show users a way to manage that subscription by showing links to the App…
Building a Serverless Search Engine Using Fuse.js
December 3, 2023 – Using AWS S3 and Lambda to build a cheap and simple search engine.
Running ESBuild in the Browser
September 16, 2023 – So, I found out the other day that it’s possible to run ESBuild – that tool you usually use for bundling Javascript and Typescript code…
Setting Default Font Family in React Native
July 30, 2023 – Here's the right, albeit hacky, way to set a default font in React Native 0.72.
Allowing ACLs for S3 Objects in CloudFormation
July 25, 2023 – AWS has added a few new defaults for new S3 buckets to make it harder to create leaky buckets that put all of your company’s data out there…
Setting Up Code Coverage Tracking in a Monorepo
July 23, 2023 – There’s a lot of tools like Codecov to track code coverage. I don’t personally like these tools too much for simpler projects, where I just…
Processing MDX into an OpenAPI specification
July 15, 2023 – Last night, I realised I wanted to set up a Postman collection for an API we have built. The easiest way to do this seemed to be to import…
Producing PDF files in AWS Lambda
July 9, 2023 – Something I’ve had to do a few times now is to generate PDF files in AWS Lambda. This could be anything from reports to invoices. My…
Conventional Commits and Comments Cheat Sheet
July 6, 2023 – A quick overview of the Conventional Commits and Conventional Comments standards.
FTP: Active vs Passive Mode
June 10, 2023 – I know the basics of how FTP works, but only this week I made sure I actually fully understand how the different modes of FTP work. Let’s…
Setting up GitHub Actions to have access to your AWS account
May 28, 2023 – OIDC AWS access in GitHub Actions allows you to do credential-less AWS auth.
Interceptors in Axios
April 5, 2021 – Interceptors in Axios are a great tool to simplify your management of network requests.
Serverless magic links with AWS Cognito
July 27, 2020 – I've written before about what I consider to be best practices for magic links from a UX perspective. Recently, I got a chance to apply…
Practical regular expressions
July 26, 2020 – Regular expressions (regex) are one of those topics that a lot of developers find difficult to get started with. I think that's not because…