What a great read! I got in touch with this book at my local Little Free Library book exchange. By the way, the Little Free Library initiative truly serves its purpose which is to expand access to books for all. Having something to read while our kids enjoy the outdoor is a brilliant idea! Initially, […]
Author: Wojciech Szczurek
Using AI to Find the Best Value Car: A Practical Guide
Are you in the market for a new car? I am, and I rely on online car listing aggregators to find my next perfect family hauler. With hundreds of listings, how do you find the best value? As a web programmer, I can’t resist performing some basic web scraping and running “AI-based” data analysis. AI […]
Power Bank with Solar Panel – How Good?
Recently, I purchased a rather popular but unbranded power bank (part number YD-819) from Amazon, and boy, did it turn out to be a pleasant surprise! Despite its modest price tag of just \$30, this powerhouse boasts an impressive capacity of 42800mAh. Not only can it charge two devices simultaneously, but it also supports USB […]
How to check your website’s performance?
Just recently, a friend of mine asked me about “website analysis tool”. I got interested and immediately started asking questions. What would you like to analyze? Performance? SEO? Accessibility? “We would like to check our website for performance.”, he says. Luckily, a couple well established tools exists that are designed to do just that. I […]
ReFresh: Angular
Intro Angular is an opinionated JavaScript (JS) framework designed for building single page applications (SPAs). Angular has been my JavaScript framework of choice. I follow its development and I use it in both personal and professional projects since its humble beginning from v2 in 2016. To stay up to date with the technology, from time […]
How to monitor your website’s position in Google?
The free Google Search Console service is used to monitor the position of your website in Google search results. It provides valuable insights, such as the position your pages occupy for selected keywords, the number of people who clicked on your website, the keywords they used, which of your pages are the most popular for […]
AWS Certified Developer – Associate (DVA-C02)
My reference page for notes produced when studying AWS material. Well-Architected Framework Let’s start with AWS well-architected framework because in AWS everything touches that concept. The six pillars of well-architected framework includes: Cloud Design Patterns Security IAM – concept of users and policies. Policies are assigned to users. Can use existing policies or create new […]
“other side closed” – AWS Lambda with Parameters and Secrets Extension
Secrets lambda extensions is optional and AWS maintained layer that provide fast access to secrets manager or parameter store. In fact, it is just locally available http server that you can query with your favorite http client to get your app’s secrets. By default it is available on port 2773. Recently I have come across […]
“The Art of Thinking Clearly” by Rolf Dobell
List of fallacies, biases, effects, tendencies and more with AI generated summary and example. The list comes from “The Art of Thinking Clearly” by Rolf Dobell. This book lists almost 100 practical examples of cognitive errors we typically as humans make. Written in engaging style and split in series of short stories, it is great […]
SSL Offloading – AWS Application Load Balancer
Did you know that AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) supports SSL offloading out of the box! To start create Amazon issued certificate from AWS Certificate Manager. Then, assign this certificate into ALB HTTPS:443 listener and route the traffic to a target group which is set to listen on port HTTP:80. One great benefit of such […]