For as long as I can recall, I have a fascination with communication systems and have a bias for how machines communicate with each other to convey intent and meaning.

Webhooks are lovely little blobs of joy and provide most probably the simplest form of integration for developers and system architects.

TL;DR; When deploying NextJS to Vercel, write code ahead of time knowing it’s going to run on AWS Lambdas and make sure you’re giving your server-side code time to execute.

Serverless is game changing. Nuff said. For the sake of argument, serverless is everything I don’t need a server for.

“Naming things & cache-invalidation are the two hardest things in IT” says Martin Fowler.

For some time, the humble browser has been a source of frustration and an area that I’ve treated largely as a black box.

That’s right, another week, another creation called resetgit.com. This one inspired by my constant reGoogling of resetting git repositories.

Neo4J is still the first name you think of when uttering the phrase “graph database” and ArangoDB in my opinion is rising rapidly to take the lead.

There doesn’t seem to be a nice clean way of handling DynamoDB (DDB) record updates in Go without writing a DDB query and book-ending it with some boilerplate.