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wes4m: Lessons from a $5 VPS, Bad Design, and a Traffic Spike
A year ago I duct-taped together, in a couple of days, an app for fun as an experiment. Without putting much thought into its design or scaleability. I then put it to run on a tiny ~$5 VPS. Not expecting more than a few users. It went on to gain users very slowly for a year. Until, fast forward to last month, STUDI’s traffic and users spiked nearly 20x in just a few days, and reached 2nd on AppStore’s education charts.
ally: Private Github Readme Stats server and uploading to S3 with Ansible Semaphore
Containerise a private Github Readme Stats server and upload stats card image to S3 using an Ansible playbook on a schedule with Semaphore
github-readme-stats, docker, ansible, semaphore
wes4m: Side Project #9837: Visual Nodes Scripting
There are many visual programming implementations out there that make approaching some specific tasks easier. One of which is Unreal Engine’s Blueprint’s system. It provides game developers with a way to program visually by connecting different nodes. Each node taking in some inputs, and/or options, doing something with it, then outputting the results. You can also implement your own re-useable nodes using C++. It’s apparently turing complete too. I wanted to make something similar for a project I’m working on, which brings us to: Data Flow Programming, Flow Based Programming, Node Graph Architecture, and a thousand other names.
dev, golang
ally: Use git feature to 'hide' local changes of a Dockerfile which installs xdebug
Use git update-index --assume-unchanged to remove local changes of a Dockerfile from the staging area in a repository, and use (an ignored) docker-compose.override.yml to configure xdebug.
docker, xdebug, git
ally: Basic Cognito user pool with login/logout integration in Laravel, with users/system clients
A relatively basic Laravel integration with an Amazon Cognito user pool with two clients. The first client for web users will be used to initiate (from Laravel) login/logout on Cognito’s hosted UI with email/password. The second client will be for system users, which will generate tokens with email/password through API instead of hosted UI. Finally, a simple console command to decode/verify web and system users’ JTWs from the user pool’s JWKS.
laravel, cognito, terraform
ally: Adding asynchronous search to a hugo blog
Learn how to add asynchronous search to a hugo blog with alpine.js and fuse.
hugo, alpine, fuse
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