Content delivery network (CDN) is my recommended way of serving statics because of : 1. Separation of concerns Meat of the app is on the main example.com, assets are on a subdomain like cdn.example.com. 2. Cookie-less domain Asset domain remains cookie-less, e.g. cookie based authentication only bloats domain.com requests === Read more…
I know how to write macro, what it’s useful for, but can’t seem to define it well when people ask me. Rust book defines it as a way of writing code that writes other code, known as metaprogramming. In Java you would write an annotation and annotation processor, in Scala Read more…
Tips and tricks on my Lightsail instance, configuration and common commands. Removing the bitnami banner Documentation that shows how to remove bitnami banner is outdated for new instances. New instances on Lightsail don’t have a bitnami banner page, which I thought was unnecessary to begin with. You have all of Read more…
I created a custom Github action that deploys a static website to s3, and I want to point out a few details of my process of building a reusable action. For detailed reference refer to https://docs.github.com/en/actions/creating-actions/about-custom-actions. There are 3 types of custom actions – docker, javascript and composite. For deploying Read more…
Unfortunately S3 static doesn’t offer rewrite of urls, and doesn’t know that /page.html should resolve to /page and vice versa. This solution shows how to host a Nextjs static website on S3 without the html extension. Configure S3 Bucket for static website hosting Programmatic access to S3 bucket Your S3 Read more…
Probably ssh connection is not configured, to enable it go to elastic beanstalk instance: Step 1: Go to EC2 dashboard https://eu-central-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home.Identify which ec2 instance you want to connect to. Name of the instance should correspond to the name of the environment. E.g. myelasticbeanstalk-env. Step 2: Select the instance, click on Read more…
I recently did a switch to monorepo for my React components with Lerna. I was usually against having a monorepo because For example, does your frontend colleague need to know about your backend? Now, that being said, monorepo is convenient because everything is in one place, and other repos can Read more…
I wanted to try creating a desktop app with Rust, and found out there’s Tauri and Yew. Both look cool! Since there was no official documentation on how to configure a Tauri/Yew project, I wanted to post instructions for Linux users. I did run into some specific problems like: My Read more…
I’m a long time user of Ubuntu, and still can’t remember some simple tasks…like how to create a launcher icon on Ubuntu. Keeping a cheat sheet here, so I won’t forget next time Jetbrains pushes an update. Btw this works for any kind of launcher, not just IntelliJ… Step 1: Read more…
In development I like to use containerized databases. Recently I’ve been working on a micro service project that uses Postgres as a datasource. Each service has it’s own independent datasource. Running independent postgresql docker per service is resource consuming, so hack is to use a single postgres docker with multiple Read more…