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Debugging Firebase events with Swift iOS apps

Notes on debugging Firebase events in Swift iOS apps

The Missing Guide to AWS SDK for Swift

Notes on using the aws-sdk-swift project in your macOS or iOS project.

Using Cloudflare Tunnels to expose localhost to the internet

Cloudflare Tunnels is the newest alternative to tools like Ngrok and localtunnel. These tools help expose locally hosted apps and websites to the internet.

Attention to detail as your north star

This post is in response to a Hacker News thread about being slow to produce work.

Questions to ask potential employers

You will be working for the company. But will the company work for you? If you are interviewing with companies, these notes should help ask questions and know what is in it for you.

Notes on the tar command

Because I cannot find the best documentation everytime I need to remember tar command.

Dev notes: aws-cdk not updating Lambda function

This post contains notes about issues faced and solutions, when attempting to update a Lambda function deployed using aws-cdk.

Building a custom QMK firmware

Notes on enabling AutoShift and TapDance for the Drop Preonic keyboard

Hire when there is enough work for a year

Notes on when to hire new team members.

Bring clarity, not blockers

Notes on participating in conversations as a topic expert.

React hooks: useEffect and useCallback

These are my notes on using React hooks.

Postgres: ORDER BY custom text order

Found this scenario where I wanted to (out of pure laziness) sort records by specific order of a column’s possible values. I looked around and to my surprise I found a way to do it.

Notes on building mechanical keyboards

The keyboard in the picture is my Planck EZ. I explored about building keyboards (and will hopefully do this someday). ~ This is a rabbit hole ~

Reading list

These are a list of books I want to read the next 5yrs

Traction

– This post is a work in progress. These are my notes from reading the Traction book –

Notes on creating screencasts

These are some useful learnings when recording screencasts/videos.

Using Core Data Lab

Sometime ago I bought this app called Core Data Lab . The app helps inspect CoreData stores created by my mac apps. This is very handy when building Mac apps (probably iOS apps too).

Making HTTP POST request in Swift using URLSession

or “How to POST a form in Swift using URLSession” These examples will be using httpbin.org to test our request.

Encoding and Decoding JSON in Swift

aka “How to decode response from a JSON API”