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  • Apr 30, 2024

    Stop caring about being productive

    In software development, the search for increased productivity often feels like the quest for the Holy Grail. And I imagine other professions are no different. It feels like every day I read about another methodology, system, way of working or a tool promising to boost your productivity and finally make you the 10x programmer you always wanted to be. Whether it’s “Getting Things Done” to organize all your projects, breaking your time into Pomodoros for maximum efficiency, or using tools like Todoist, Things, or Bullet Journaling (if you prefer pen and paper), the pressure to optimise productivity is relentless. Listening to the tech podcast while you are running or doing reps in the gym. I am feeling my anxiety rising just listing these and I haven’t even scratched the surface.

  • Jan 31, 2024

    How use React (Browser) Router with GitHub Pages

    GitHub Pages are a great way to deploy a simple frontend website. And React is a great tool to build the said website. I am by no means a frontend master, but DevOps, deploying and building applications on all kinds of platforms is very much my forte. Recently I tried deploying a small React website with a few routes to GitHub Pages. And quickly ran into a problem.

  • Dec 21, 2023

    A decade of programming

    It is now over a decade since I took up programming; and it feels like it was only yesterday that I learnt some HTML and built my first website just for the hell of it. The stretch between that first website and getting paid actual money to build someone else’s website, well … that bit did feel a bit draggy, to be honest. But now here I am, ten years a professional programmer.

  • May 3, 2023

    Www to non-www redirect using CloudFront Functions

    There are several reasons why you might want to redirect users’ requests. One of the more obvious ones being for SEO, to only serve requests from e.g. apex (naked) domain and redirect request going to www to apex domain. Or the other way around. In this example we will focus on redirecting requests to subdomain www to apex domain. So any request to www.example.com should get redirected to example.com.

  • Feb 6, 2023

    Starting a blog in 2023?

    Seems like I am a couple of decades late to the game. Is blogging even still a thing in 2023? To be honest I do not know, but I will give it a good old college try.

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