Figure 1. The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander Many programmers know the name of the architect Christopher Alexander for his work on design patterns that has been adapted into the world of programming. A lot of people know of the, somet[...]

Roughly 2 months ago, a new long-awaited version of IKVM was announced. The killer feature of the 8.2 release is the support of .NET Core. So, now, IKVM can translate JAR files to .NET Core compatible DLLs. Woohoo! Last week I migrated to the new IKVM two[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Fantomas 5 Release Party Announcing built-in container support for the .NET SDK – .NET Blog (microsoft.com) A Heavy Lift: Bringing Kestrel + YARP to Azure App Services – .NET Blog (mi[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News .NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04 – .NET Blog (microsoft.com) Microsoft and Canonical announce native .NET availability in Ubuntu 22.04 hosts and containers | Ubuntu .NET Conf Focus on MA[...]

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[...]