Blog Posts (54)

My Infrastructure as Code Rosetta Stone - Deploying the same web application on AWS ECS Fargate with CDK, Terraform and Pulumi

Three reusable infrastructure as code libraries for abstracting containerized web app architecture on AWS ECS

Setting up ad hoc development environments for Django applications with AWS ECS, Terraform and GitHub Actions

This article will show how software development teams can build on-demand environments for dog-food testing, quality review, internal and external demos and other use cases that require short-lived but feature-complete instances of a web application.

How and why I added AdSense and an AdBlock detector to my personal website

This article describes how I added AdSense to my personal website and how I request that site visitors pause AdBlock while reading my blog

How I write and share technical software development articles in 2021

This article describes how to write and share technical articles in 2021

Authenticating requests with JWT tokens stored in HTTPOnly cookies in Django

This article describes how you can use JWT tokens in Django applications with decoupled frontend JavaScript applications running the browser in secure way using HttpOnly cookies.

GitHub Action for my Nuxt.js blog hosted on GitHub Pages

This article shows how to use GitHub Actions to update my Nuxt.js blog hosted on GitHub Pages.

On-demand, serverless Valheim server setup with AWS CDK, Discord Interactions and GitLab CI

This is a detailed guide showing how to setup a dedicated Valheim server using serverless technologies on AWS

Scraping, analyzing and generating companies, founders and job postings from YC's Work at a Startup

Scraping, analyzing and generating companies, founders and job postings from YC's Work at a Startup

Adding internationalization to a statically generated Nuxt site

This article will summarize my experience implementing internationalization (i18n) for a statically-generated Nuxt.js site

Using Stripe for recurring monthly SaaS subscriptions in a Django + Vue application

This article shares my experience learning and implementing the Stripe API for recurring monthly SaaS subscription payments in an application using Django and Vue.js