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Mimicking Swift initializers in javascript with a simple technique called Static Initializers

If you ever see this message from an AWS client call: Type: Sender, Code: InvalidClientTokenId, Message: The security token included in the request is invalid you want to check for any and all access issues (googling told me so). Confirm…

For our most recent hackfest, I did some research on a topic that had been on my list for a year. I wanted to learn more about open source serverless CMSes. This had intrigued me for years (I saw a…

Pushing elements to the bottom of a container. This used to be a bit of a hassle before flexbox came along. You had to position the element absolutely, use negative placement, extra padding, and even after all that it all…

Last year, a cool new feature was introduced called Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) which can be used to snapshot your EBS disks. This was previously possible using a Lambda function or cron job, but if you can use the…

We have a number of clients that have infrastructure we manage on AWS. Sometimes it is servers and databases. Sometimes it is a cloudfront distribution and s3 buckets. Sometimes it is something totally different. We've moved from having everything intermixed…

Sometimes you just want to get all the records for all the domains you have hosted at Route 53. You might want to look through them for some setting or anomaly. But clicking around the AWS console is tedious. The…

Implementing modern JavaScript coding practices without sacrificing compatibility

We are heavy users of Trello. We are heavy automators of Trello. Previously, we had custom software which did automation of Trello tasks. Things like sorting and archiving cards, copying cards between boards and auto assignment of cards. When we…

I ran into a JSON parsing issue when using RailsAdmin 1.4.2. I was trying to search for an entity to associate it with another entity, but nothing was being returned. I looked at the request/response, and it was returning 500.…