Learn how to build a REST API to handle contact form submissions using AWS SES, Lambda, and API Gateway via the AWS CDK. And, how to test it using Postman. When it comes to building contact forms for a website, you could use a paid service to handle the sending…

Learn how pre-warming Lambda functions using EventBridge rules can drastically reduce latency and improve performance and if they’re right for you. For any application, it’s important to have low latency times to ensure a fast and responsive experience for users. But, this is especially true for serverless applications; they need…

Learn how to build a REST API with API key authentication using AWS API Gateway, DynamoDB, Lambda, and the AWS CDK as well as how to test it with Postman. APIs are a common occurrence in the developer world and for a good reason, they allow us to easily connect…

It’s pretty common nowadays to have a contact form on your website to make it a super simple process for people to contact you. …

Whether it’s adding code tags to titles or something else, wrapping strings in HTML tags can be a helpful tool. Here’s how to do it in ReactJS. — The other day while working on my personal blog I noticed that I had several blog posts that reference inline code blocks in the title but they would be rendered straight to the page as strings but surrounded by ``. …

Have you ever added a theme toggle to a website? Have you also tried to remember the user’s preference so they see the same theme when they visit again? Yes? Then my final question is, have you ever been greeted by a flash of the wrong theme on page load…

Creating NPM packages is an easy and convenient way to share reusable snippets of code for both yourself and others to consume in future projects. They could be as simple as an ESLint configuration or as detailed as a data fetching package or something else entirely. …

MDX is a great way to blog if you’re a developer. I’ve been using it on my personal website for a few years now and have had very little reason to switch from it. One of it’s biggest pros is how flexible it is. If you want to add some…

Being productive is more than getting work done. Being productive is using our time to its greatest potential. By increasing our productivity we increase the return we get relative to the amount of effort we put in. To ensure we stay on target and are always being as productive as…