I cannot be sure–I don’t know if there’s any formal diagnostic that a mental health professional can perform to diagnose impostor syndrome (assuming it’s even a recognized mental health concern). So I won’t say that I suffer from impostor syndrome but it’d be hard for me to imagine that I have never felt the effects […]

So I started my morning, as I often do, by looking at Twitter. It’s better than a demitasse of espresso in terms of raising my blood pressure. One thing I see over and over again on Twitter is the rather common false dilemma logical fallacy. And this fallacy seems to be in play a lot […]

I previously wrote about five reasons you should consider AppSync over API Gateway. One thing that API Gateway supports but you can’t do with AppSync out-of-the-box yet is custom domain names. Your shiny new AppSync API is available at XYZ.appsync-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/graphql, but you really want people to use your own domain instead because dev.example.com/graphql is much … How to set up custom domain names for AppSync Read More » Liked this article? Support me on Patreon and get direct help fro[...]

The rise of tooling for vulnerability detection combined with pressure driven by Vendor Due Diligence is causing a massive enterprise freezeout for non-mainstream technologies across the board. Of particular concern is the impact this will have on the adoption of functional programming in enterprise and small business B2B development. I see now that the last […]

We need to balance our Magpie Developer tendencies against the need to learn new things. Here's some ideas on how to do that!