Convert ACSM Files on Linux to ePub

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 purchased you need to open that ACSM file up in Adobe Digital Editions and download an ePub. Then if you want to do anything with your book, like put it onto your own e-reader, you’re going to need to remove the DRM....

April 1, 2022 · 4 min · chart

Optimizing for a Cloud-Native Developer Experience

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. Cross Post from: www.drewkhoury.com Optimizing for a Cloud-Native Developer Experience - Presentation Chris and Drew share their combined knowledge around developer experience, why (micro) feedback loops matter a whole lot, and present a live demo of a Cloud Native application working locally - complete with unit tests, end-to-end tests and smoke tests....

March 25, 2022 · 3 min · chart

How to Find Hosted Zone ID in Route53 AWS in 3 Clicks

Here we will go over how to find hosted zone id route53. What is a Hosted Zone? Route53 is AWS’ service for managing DNS. Hosted Zones are the base layer of Route53. Typically, each hosted zone corresponds to a domain name, or possibly a sub domain. The hosted zone is the container for DNS records, this is where you will configure how the world interacts with your domain, such as pointing it to an IP address with an A record....

March 22, 2022 · 1 min · chart

Easily Measure Code Coverage in React

This guide will teach you how to easily measure code coverage in React for a project generated with create-react-app. This article is going to use https://github.com/chrishart0/gsd-aws-cdk-serverless-example as an example. Either follow along with your own code or fork that repo. The example repo is a mono repo with a Lambda function backend and a ReactJS front end, we are going to be focusing on the contents of the frontend directory....

March 18, 2022 · 3 min · chart

Sun Tzu's The Art of DevOps: I

If Sun Tzu was practicing modern development methodologies, Sun Tzu’s The Art of DevOps… “Cloud Infrastructure are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards… Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the infrastructure engineer works out his resource allocation in relation to the load which he is facing. Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in the cloud, there are no hard-coded compute allocations....

March 16, 2022 · 2 min · chart

Fix: Can't connect to Kobo e-reader on Linux

How to fix not being able to connect to Kobo e-reader on Linux. I’ve owned a Kobo Forma for a few years now and I love it. My biggest issues with the device always come from trying to connect to it to upload new books. Of course, I never connect it to wifi, I just upload PDFs I’ve downloaded and Epubs from https://www.gutenberg.org/. I can’t connect to my Kobo e-reader Linux This is a frequent issue for me....

March 14, 2022 · 2 min · chart