TILs (Today I Learned) are short form, tech posts, on the things I learn about throughout the course of my day. Mostly nerd stuff. Never stop learning!
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Today I figured out how to embed the tracking code for Fathom Analytics into an Obsidian Publish website. It's easy. 1. Create a file in the root of your Obsidian Vault called publish.js - You'll need to use an editor like VS Code for this
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I'm building a thing. I'll write more about that thing in the near future. But, in the meantime, I thought I'd write a little about one small other thing I learned along the way. The thing I am building has two main components. 1.
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I had an interesting conversation at work today around package size limits for AWS Lambda and it got me thinking about a number of strategies for dealing with these limits. The limits First, here are the limits. As per the documentation, your Lambda function, including all its source code, layers,
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Wow, that title is a mouthful. Here's what it means: * You can use AWS SAM to easily construct at Serverless Application on AWS where the AWS Lambda code is written in Go * You can deploy your app to AWS from the CLI with sam deploy which is nice
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A while back I created a repo on GitHub that was simply the output of doing sam init and choosing the AWS Quick Start Template for a Hello World Example. From there, I simplified the SAM template.yml file a little, restructured the folder where all my Go code lives,
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While working on my chat-cli program, I realized that waiting for a response from Amazon Bedrock could take some time, depending on the nature of your prompt. To offer a better user experience, I looked into the InvokeModelWithResponseStream API method, which allows you to receive the response from Bedrock in
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In yesterday's post I talked about building an Amazon Bedrock powered CLI that allowed for an interactive chat. Below is more or less the code I started with to create the command line chat. As you can see, there is an infinite loop nested within another infinite loop.
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AWS App Runner was launched in 2021, and offers developers an incredibly easy way to deploy web applications.
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I think Go has taken a really smart approach to package and dependency management by simplifying things, removing the need for a complex package manager, and creating a global namespace.
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I've been getting going with Go for about a week now and I've already learned so much! I realized last weekend that I had two primary interests I want to focus on throughout my journey. The first is that I really want to learn the language
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Even though I've got some experience with Go, I'm gonna set out on this journey as if I'd just learned of Go today.
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So, now that the dust has settled, and I have some time to set up a more efficient method for backing up my Mastodon server, I figured I'd try simply dumping my PostgresSQL database and saving it to S3.