From MDN: A Web browser or browser is a program that retrieves and displays pages from the Web, and lets users access further pages through hyperlinks. A browser is the most familiar type of user agent. It uses a rendering engine to display web pages. Building a web browser is Read more
I think complex decisions should be made via discussions on shared documents (Google docs, Microsoft Word, text files with version control, etc…) when possible. A document provides the context for the decision being made, and the comments allow for discussion on the various inputs to the decision. Version control can Read more
Artificial intelligence, and specifically generative AI technologies have been in the news quite a bit recently. While AI gets the bulk of the media coverage, there are many other technologies that have made advances in recent years. Here are some non-AI related technologies that I am excited about: Passkeys. A passkey is Read more
As with many others I have been playing around with ChatGPT recently. If you are not familiar with it, here is the description of ChatGPT from its creators, OpenAI: We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to Read more
“Is very good and I’m glad it exists” – LS But it can also be overwhelming. Almost any topic that I might want to learn about I can find information on in less than a second. For example, a quick Google search for “how does grep work” gives “about 21,700,000 Read more
If you use CloudFront to serve static assets, you can setup CloudFront to send logs to an S3 bucket. Once the logs are in an S3 bucket, you can use Athena to query the logs. This gives you greater visibility into what requests are being made to your CloudFront distributions. Read more
It is nice going back to code that you have not visited in a while and still being able to pick up the structure of the code and start working on it again quickly. There are a lot of good courses available for free, but one of my favorites is Read more