habits
I have long been interested in productivity and the old Benjamin Franklin quest of finding ways to better myself. One of the more recent themes in this field is habits, which I first came across in Duhigg's bookThe Power of Habit. The basic promise here is that if
aws
Next.js 11 includes an exciting new feature for dynamically optimising images using the tag. Unfortunately, this new feature does not play nicely with exporting a static version of the Next.js app using yarn next export by its very design. This is not great for serverless deployments, which often
coding
I was quite excited when I discovered that it is possible to embed gist links into Wordpress blog posts, and they will render as syntax highlighted code: Gist embedded in Lambda Go Starter Project Since I write most of my posts in Markdown I would previously provide the code with
book
Anything You Want is a short book that contains the lessons learnt by Derek Sivers while developing the business CD Baby. It is meant for those interested in starting their own business. In the following I have collected some of the advice found in the book: On Starting a Business
difficulty
I am not very good at playing video games; I never played any games with a controller as a child and thus never got very good at using them. Somehow I still enjoy difficult games the most. I (unsuccessfully) played the games Dark Souls ('Prepare to Die Edition'
charity
To me there is little doubt that the best way to live our lives is to attempt to do so in the service of others. A hedonistic, self-serving and selfish way of life is thankfully something that does not give us much lasting fulfilment; thankfully so since if we attempt
book
How much of human behaviour is controlled by our genes, and how much is driven by our upbringing and higher thinking has long been a topic of much discussion. Christakis takes a bit of a different view of this problem by asking the question how much our societies are shaped
book-review
The Art of Learning is written by Josh Waitzkin, who was a multiple times national chess champion in the U.S. as well as later became an accomplished martial artists, winning the Tai Chi world championships. This I think is interesting background to consider since the author has demonstrated an
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Serverless development allows deploying low-cost, low-maintenance applications. Go is an ever-more popular language for developing backend applications. With first rate support both in AWS Lambda and GCP Cloud Functions, Go is an excellent choice for serverless development. Unfortunately, setting up a flexible infrastructure and efficient deployment pipelines for Serverless applications
next-js-framework
Next.js is an awesome framework for building websites and web applications. I have covered Next.js in multiple posts on this blog, such as Next.js with Bootstrap Getting Started. One of the advantages of Next.js is that it can generate static or server-side rendered versions of pages
aws
AWS Lambda is a cost efficient and easy way to deploy server applications. Express.js is a very popular Node.js framework that makes it very easy to develop REST APIs. This post will go through the basics of deploying an Express.js application to AWS Lambda. You can also
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Next.js is becoming ever more popular these days and rightfully so. It is an extremely powerful and well-made framework that provides some very useful abstractions for developing React applications. An easy way to deploy Next.js application is through using Vercel. However, it can also be useful to deploy