Host your API Gateway documentation in API Gateway
It’s possible to host your OpenAPI (Swagger) JSON as well the UI from within API Gateway itself, without needing an S3 bucket or any additional infrastructure.
Raspberry Pi: Simple Waveshare e-paper dashboard with weather and calendar
I have created a simple, DIY e-paper dashboard setup that displays the weather and calendar information. It’s minimal, and doesn’t require a lot of power, so it can run on…
Why the F**k won’t you build?
To the tune of Go the Fuck to Sleep
Getting a Github Action to run randomly
If you have a Github Action set on a cron schedule, but don’t necessarily want it to always run on that schedule - for example a daily cron that doesn’t…
Mentally calculate the day of the week, given a date in the current year
The Doomsday algorithm is a memory trick that lets you figure out the day of the week that a given date falls on. I’ll go over the simplest variation of…
Standard paper sizes are an elegant example of simple maths
The well known A, B, C series paper sizes may seem arbitrary at first glance, but they are actually based on some simple basic principles which make it easy to…
A hello world example using a Docker image in AWS Lambda
AWS recently announced the ability to use Docker images in your Lambda functions. Here I’ll go over a basic set of steps to get a simple example working.