Passwordless sign-in with Google One Tap for Web
I sign in with my Google account everywhere I can to avoid having yet-another-password on another random website. I've been seeing an upgraded experience on some sites (maybe I'm just…
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Talking to people – the hard part of being a tech lead
Today, I stared at a to-do on my Trello board saying "schedule 1-1s with your team." Its been on my list for 2 weeks now, and even though I see…
How to handle API errors in your web app using axios
Whenever you're making a backend API call with axios, you have to consider what to do with the .catch() block of your promise. Now, you might think that your API…
Creating a simple npm library to use in and out of the browser
Sharing some reusable javascript is hard - even moreso if you're trying to share between node and the browser. I'm just trying to share some 10 lines of code. Why…
Avoiding burnout as a new tech lead
Does this sound familiar? The best dev on the team is promoted to being a tech lead, despite not having any management experience. That dev then all of a sudden…
Using Angular innerHtml to display user-generated content without sacrificing security
Why do some of your styles no longer work when using [innerHtml] to show some HTML content? Angular comes with a built-in html sanitizer DomSanitizer, as a security feature, thats…
Setting up automatic failover for your static websites hosted on S3
Up until late last year, you couldn't set up automatic failover in CloudFront to look at a different bucket. You could only have one Primary origin at a time, which…
Create your own short link redirects using CloudFront + S3
Get branded short links under your own domain for dirt-cheap by self-hosting it on AWS using CloudFront + S3. It's a no-code server-less solution to get redirects on the cheap…