Steve Sanders

Startup CTO - helping nonprofits connect with donors

Side projects:
serverless event-driven architectures on AWS

[Steve Sanders @StevenDSanders]

@rehanvdm Are you able to share any high level details on how this is handled on the AWS infra side? Automatically create ACM certificate and route traffic though CloudFront?

[Steve Sanders @StevenDSanders]

@adrian_horning_ Yeah that looks fine. Would need more details on what your code is doing to diagnose more. For example, if you're connecting to a database your single Express server would pool connections more efficiently vs Lambda making 100 separate connections.

[Steve Sanders @StevenDSanders]

I've been gaming on different desktop PCs that I built myself for 20+ years.

100% of my playtime this year was on @OnDeck and I didn't use my gaming rig at all 🤯

[Steve Sanders @StevenDSanders]

@Benoit_Boure This is amazing!

AWS really needs to add native marshalling/unmarshalling to any service that interacts directly with DynamoDB. DynamoDB stream -> EventBridge Pipe is another use case where it is sorely needed

[Steve Sanders @StevenDSanders]

Does the fancy new Aurora DSQL serverless Postgres database from @awscloud work with modern TypeScript tooling like @DrizzleORM? I tested it out:

https://t.co/jB7ANWBox2

[Marco Troisi @MarcoTroisi]

Thanks to @StevenDSanders for continuing to talk about this HUGE mess from Bedrock.

As he says, "it is unacceptable to kill access without warning".

Really hoping somebody will own up to this.

https://t.co/yNER22KA3X

[Steve Sanders @StevenDSanders]

Trying my hand at writing for the first time in awhile:

https://t.co/L1d3pEGUrC

[Steve Sanders @StevenDSanders]

Trying my hand at writing for the first time in awhile:

https://t.co/L1d3pEGUrC

[Steve Sanders @StevenDSanders]

Cognito doesn't support login via magic links or passkeys out of the box... BUT there is a great project from AWS that allows you to add both of those features.

It includes a CDK construct to create the AWS resources and pre-built React UI components.

https://t.co/O9vBVi3GgA

[Steve Sanders @StevenDSanders]

@theburningmonk Yes, this happened to us within the last 24 hours after the same thing in a different account about a week ago.

This was the last straw for me and we ended up migrating away from Bedrock to direct vendor API calls (in our case Anthropic). Also MUCH faster now

[Steve Sanders @StevenDSanders]

I've been seeing ads on here for weeks trying to get me to vote for a particular candidate for president (take a guess who it is)

...in a state I don't live in.

Speaks volumes about the enshittification of this platform.

[Steve Sanders @StevenDSanders]

Next time you're feeling discouraged because web dev has gotten too complicated, go ahead and see how quickly you can publish a desktop or mobile app and then push an update to real users.

It's easy to take for granted how frictionless the open web platform can be!

[Eric Clemmons 🍊☁️ @ericclemmons]

Man, making a menu bar app has a lot of gotchas!

Signing
Notarizing
Hiding the Dock
Reactive Menu
Storing state
Running binaries
Logging
Gatekeeper
Distribution
Migrations
Auto-updates
🤯

Sounds like a starter kit I should sell lol

[Steve Sanders @StevenDSanders]

@ericclemmons I would pay for it! I have a somewhat complete menubar app (and ideas for several more) that has been sitting for years unpublished for some of these reasons.

[Steve Sanders @StevenDSanders]

@csallen In addition to what you mentioned, I also learned a lot of teamwork and leadership skills from playing competitive FPS games.

[Steve Sanders @StevenDSanders]

Link:

https://t.co/XMX5RR8wdw

[Steve Sanders @StevenDSanders]

You can now deploy Next.js apps with ISR (Incremental Static Regeneration) to @Cloudflare via the OpenNext Cloudflare adapter!

Might be canceling my Vercel sub soon...

[Steve Sanders @StevenDSanders]

@focusotter @resend I believe at this point you would need to wait. DNS servers will cache for the TTL before checking again

[Steve Sanders @StevenDSanders]

@mijustin You mention this briefly, but if you are trying to solve this pipeline problem you need to explain WHY these frameworks are a good choice for newcomers to spend time learning.

Why was Laravel specifically a good choice for this project? Faster/cheaper/more secure/etc?