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E-ink monitors offer a paper-like display that can significantly reduce eye strain during extended programming sessions. While they may not match the color vibrancy or refresh rates of traditional LCD or OLED screens, their reflective e-pap...

A step-by-step guide to installing the AI-powered Cursor code editor on Ubuntu 24.04 and 24.10, including troubleshooting tips and app launcher integration.

Automated testing is critical to delivering high quality, stable software. Evals are the new paradigm on testing which allow us to automatically validate the functionality of LLM based applications.

These notes are taken from this free course: Building and Evaluating Advanced RAG

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As an agile developer and DevOps engineer, staying up to date with the latest news and updates from AWS is essential. This week, AWS has announced several updates to their services, including AWS IoT SiteWise, AWS Glue, Amazon QuickSight, a...

_One artifact, one pipeline, one path to production._ Remember this phrase and you now know the secret to building good CI/CD pipelines. You are now mere minutes away from being a significantly better developer, DevOps engineer, SRE, or rea...

WIP: This is a work in progress. I intend to start keeping notes of the basic theory, as I experience and learn it, of how to create a good CI/CD for delivering software.

Step 1: Create a new Date object

Server response time (TTFB) is an important factor in SEO and should not be overlooked. Site owners need to understand what TTFB is, why it's important, and how to measure and improve it. In this article, we'll discuss how to reduce server ...

Here is an example of how to use an @hasmany relationship in AWS Amplify with React. I am attempting to create a user and then associate many ToDo items to this user. I have created a model for the user and a model for the ToDo item with a ...

In this Arcadian.cloud help article I'll show you in this article how to quickly fix the error in AWS Amplify A deployment is in progress. Here's the summary. There are two reasons this may occur. 1: something went wrong while running an am...

The world of work has changed significantly in the past few years, and the way we communicate, collaborate, and connect with one another has had to evolve as well. Enter Amazon Chime, a powerful and secure video and audio conferencing, mess...

If you're looking to break into the world of cloud computing, getting your first AWS certification is a great place to start. AWS, or Amazon Web Services, is the leading cloud platform and having a certification on your resume can open up a...

ACSM stands for "Adobe Content Server Manager" and refers to a file format used by Adobe Digital Editions, a piece of software used for managing and reading ebooks.

Sometimes you need a particular version of python, in this guide we will go over how to install python 3.8 on Ubuntu or any other specific version of Python on Ununtu.

How to resolve _ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.cmd'_

Linux battery life on laptops is known not to be great. Due to the need to test on so many types of hardware, it isn't feasible for distros to be optimized for it out of the box. Here are my notes on what I've done to optimize Ubuntu batter...

aws:asset:path is a type of metadata which can be configured in CloudFromation for a Lambda function. Below are my notes on how to use it, specifically for use with AWS SAM directly with standard CloudFormation.

How to fix the AWS SAM error samcli.commands.exceptions.UserException: NodejsNpmBuilder:MoveDependencies - \[WinError 145\] The directory is not empty

Why is my development process slow?

When trying to upgrade a Pop\_OS machine with _sudo pop-upgrade release upgrade_ I ran into the following error: _Release upgrade status: release upgrade aborted: failed to downgrade packages_

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Learn how to make indented bullet points on Medium.com in two steps with this guide.

How to resolve ec2 public ip not working?

How to Fix: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'awscli'?

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What is the AWS VPS hosting price? If you are coming to AWS from traditional VPS Server hosting you might be a bit confused since there is no service called VPS. Amazon Lightsail and EC2 are the VPS like services, both of these will give yo...

"An Error Has Occurred Access Denied." Appears in the Chrome Web Store

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When using Linux and buying ebooks, you will have to convert ACSM files on Linux to ePub. The Kobo store and other popular ebook stores don't just give you a usable ePub, they often come in ACSM format. To actually read the book you've purc...

Learn why and how focusing on developer experience and mirco feedback loops will speed up your development process and help you to create a better product.

This guide will teach you how to easily measure code coverage in React for a project generated with create-react-app.

If Sun Tzu was practicing modern development methodologies, Sun Tzu's The Art of DevOps...

Quickly diagnose and fix the _botocore.exceptions.noregionerror: you must specify a region_ error. The fix is you must specify a region.

If you've worked on even one Lambda function then you know that development without local testing can be slow. In this article we will go over using AWS SAM to startup an API on port 3000 with API Gateway and Lambda locally inside of a dock...

Cross post from Medium Tags: CDK, 3 Musketeers, AWS This is an example of AWS CDK in a docker container following the 3 Musketeers pattern....

I have some PDFs which I need to get typed up into text to edit. I decided to go with Tesseract OCR as it seems to be the best tool for the job. Here are the steps for how to use Tesseract OCR to convert PDFs to text.

Cross-post from: Medium This article explains how to locally test, with AWS SAM (Serverless Application Model), a Lambda function + API Gateway created with AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit). Python AWS CDK and SAM are a match made in heave...

My team ran into a 494 error earlier this week coming out of CloudFront. The first few files requested from CloudFront would be successful, then we would hit the 494 error and most requests after that, but not all, would fail.

Have you encountered an error such as the one below?

I struggled for a while today to figure out how to place a lambda function inside of a given SubnetType of a VPC generated in the same CDK stack.

CloudFormation written in Python? Yes!

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My dad got a new Windows PC for Christmas and requested help with installing QuickBooks 2008 pro so he wouldn't have to pay to upgrade, here are the steps. Here I'll describe how to transfer a previously purchased QuickBooks 2008 to a new W...

Yesterday I discovered my new Alpine Linux WordPress container had terrible latency when loading any pages.

Here is a quick script I have written in Bash to get URL status codes.

One of my recent projects has been containerizing a .NET Core 2.1 application which uses DinkToPDF for producing PDFs. I always default to Alpine for my containers. Here I'll describe using DinkToPDF on Alpine Linux.

I received the following error when trying to start monitoring a live chat in Amazon Connect.

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I got this error _sam deploy unable to locate credentials_ when trying to use AWS SAM with AWS CLIv2 SSO.

The official AWS installation docs for Linux tell you to install Homebew so that you can install the AWS SAM CLI. This is just plain dumb. You should not need to install a new package manager just to install one tool. Below are the steps to...

While working with AWS SAM I ran into an error caused by the local system time of WSL being wrong.

The Problem

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How to copy Firefox saved logins and password, autofill data, and bookmarks over to a new computer, a new profile or a new user. While its best to use a more secure password manager such as keeper or Lastpass, if you do have some of your pa...

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How to add the the dmenu Path? This article explains how to add to the $PATH variable seen by dmenu.