AWS announced a new feature this week that lets you enable WAF protection for Cognito user pools. And one of the things you can do with this is to implement geo-fencing and IP allow/deny lists. Geo-fencing and IP allow/deny lists are usually implemented i[...]

You might have encountered this issue when using Amplify to host your single-page applications. An image in the public folder would show up perfectly fine when running locally but it was not found on the live site after Amplify deployed your change. Curio[...]

Update 04/08/2022: turns out there are some valid reasons (analytics and potentially SEO) for redirecting from the apex domain to www. Please see comments from Michael Hart, Mike Lamb and Tyler Love to my tweet here for more details.   I have used Amplify[...]

I recently rebuilt the landing page for both AppSync Masterclass and Production-Ready Serverless. The sites were hosted on Shifter (think serverless WordPress) and Wix respectively. In both cases, the performance of the sites (especially on mobile) left a[...]

As I rebuild the landing page for the AppSync Masterclass I wanted to give this boring “about me” section a facelift. After taking inspiration from other landing pages, I decided to go with something like this. Notice the gradient effect towards the botto[...]

Last time I talked a bit about the context of my experience with Machine Learning products and the high level issues we had getting customers to switch to what was clearly a better product. This time I get into some technical examples from these checklist[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News F# eXchange 2022: In-Person | 25th – 26th Oct 2022 | London (skillsmatter.com) Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Release Candidate – Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com) .NET MAUI Release Cand[...]

First some context. My direct experience over the last decade+ has been mostly B2B selling enterprise grade software to large corporates and so my perspective is skewed this way. I have had many conversations with folks working in the small business and c[...]

Figure 1. Virtually eliminates your coding load. FLOW-MATIC promotional brochure (1957) No-code is a hot new topic for programming startups. The idea is to develop a system that allows end-users to do the programming they need without the difficult tas[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Free book: F# DESKTOP APP DEVELOPMENT STARTING WITH .NET 6 Bolero 0.20 released (A new HTML syntax on .NET 6) C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more! – .NET Blog [...]