Nov 26, 2020

Publish simple Node.js AWS Lambda layer

Let’s provide axios as a Lambda layer Prerequisites AWS account npm zip 1. Create folder mkdir nodejs cd nodejs 2. Install dependency npm install axios 3. Zip contents cd .. zip -r axios.zip nodejs 4. Publish to Lambda layers

AWS

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Publish simple Node.js AWS Lambda layer

Let’s provide axios as a Lambda layer

Prerequisites

AWS account
npm
zip

1. Create folder

mkdir nodejs
cd nodejs

2. Install dependency

npm install axios

3. Zip contents

cd ..
zip -r axios.zip nodejs

4. Publish to Lambda layers

Sep 28, 2020

Deploy Node.js application with MySQL to AWS EC2 using Docker Compose

Let’s combine everything together Node.js, MySQL, AWS EC2, Express, env, Docker Compose, GitHub Why? Few days ago I’ve helped out my friend to deploy Node.js application to AWS EC2. Now I’ll show you, how I did it. Create new Node.js app Let’s init new Node.js application and install express as a dependency. # Install GitHub…

Nodejs

5 min read

Apr 13, 2020

Quickly setup development environment on your Mac

Prepare your Mac for coding using this script I’ve written this script… You can run it using: curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ljmocic/a72983b0d39632c9f88e62cc6bdc0c9f/raw/f8404920d71b8424c2d238bd33f93ffa068e38ee/mac-setup.sh|sh But let’s see what I’ve added there… What’s inside The essential thing is the package manager Homebrew. It enables us to install so many useful tools without having to install every thing…

Mac

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Quickly setup development environment on Mac

Apr 11, 2020

Make Telegram bot for notifying about new RSS feed items

Replace your RSS reader with simple Telegram bot Motivation Recently I’ve got order on Fiverr to create Telegram bot which would notify public channel with new job postings in Singapore. The data from the website was available through RSS feed. The bot should check every 20 minutes for a new content. …

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Make Telegram bot for notifying about new RSS feed items

Mar 30, 2020

Send an email using Python and Gmail

Send an email as simple as possible Motivation I’ve written a simple script for sending emails with just Python and Gmail account about year ago, but in a meantime, it stopped working. I discovered that different credentials are needed now in order to send mail via script. So I wrote this…

Python

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Mar 28, 2020

Deploy React application to AWS S3 using GitHub Actions

React is lightweight, S3 is cheap, GitHub Actions make deployment easier. Why don’t we try to use them together? Why? React became dominant in frontend development and it became first choice library for front-end development. S3 is actually very cheap. GitHub Actions abstract away a lot of complexity inside CI/CD workflows…

React

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Control USB lamp with voice using Siri Shortcuts and Raspberry Pi

Don’t integrate a full IoT solution if you just want to control one lamp. Why? My previous lamp stopped working. So I replaced it with the small strip of LEDs which connect over USB and works non-stop when connected. I wanted to control turning it on/off with the button. I’ve looked…

Siri

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Mar 18, 2020

7 Most Interesting Y Combinator Startups - W20 edition

While there are many factors to be included for deciding on which company has the greatest potential, in this article I will pick the ones which description seems most interesting to me. What’s Y Combinator? Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that helped to launch more than 2,000 companies including Stripe, Airbnb, Cruise…

Ycombinator

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Mar 9, 2019

Running a script from S3 on EC2 in 7 lines of code

Use the power of EC2 instance to execute a resource-hungry script Problem The other day I was approached by a client who had a 2011 MacBook Air. He was trying to execute some computationally intensive script which only required Python to be installed. His script took longer than 30 minutes to…

AWS

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