Searching S3 Buckets (Part 1)
What I thought would be a straightforward feature turned into a deep dive into cost management, performance optimization, and AWS API quirks. Here's my approach to building cross-bucket S3 search functionality.
I'm a software engineer based in NYC. Below you'll find some notes and posts related to random projects I'm working on.
What I thought would be a straightforward feature turned into a deep dive into cost management, performance optimization, and AWS API quirks. Here's my approach to building cross-bucket S3 search functionality.
SandCrab is a new project I am working on. It is an Amazon S3 client app for MacOS that allows you to easily manage your S3 buckets and files.
Conductor is a new project I am working on. It is a wrapper around FFmpeg that allows you to easily convert videos, images, and GIFs using FFmpeg.
In this post, we will build a simple clone of the Amphetamine app using Electron. We will build a simple tray application that we can use to keep our laptop awake.
I'm currently reading the book Introduction to Compilers and Language Design by Douglas Thain. These are my notes from Chapter 5, which walks us through the basics of writing a parser using Bison.
I'm currently reading the book Introduction to Compilers and Language Design by Douglas Thain. These are my notes from Chapter 3, which walks us through the basics of writing a scanner using Flex.
In this part, I attempt to run Metaplex locally and create an NFT on the Devnet
In this part I attempt to run Solana's Dapp Scaffold project locally and add funds to my Phantom wallet
Creating and deploying a hello world lambda function with ruby and AWS
An experiment in converting Adobe LightRoom templates into reusable LUTs. These can be used to add cinematic or vintage colors and effects to your videos using FFmpeg.
A quick look at recreating a retro glow filter I recently built using FFmpeg.
Some experiments with film mattes and chromakey filtering using FFmpeg.
A simple tip for converting HEIC files using imagemagick's mogrify
More FFmpeg experiments! In this post we'll look at some initial expiriments and examples trying to create vintage video and camera filters using FFmpeg.
Experimenting with creating gifs/stop-motion videos from images with FFmpeg.
A quick dive into trying to convert videos into high quality gifs with FFmpeg.
In part 1 we built out our rails api. In part 2, we will build the react portion of our app.
A step-by-step approach to building a CRUD app with ruby on rails and react using webpacker.
Rails can make it easy to avoid learning how to interact with your postgreSQL database or use sequel. But learning these things can give you a competitive edge. In this post, we'll look at some tricks to interact with postgreSQL for your rails apps.
Get sidekiq and redis working on your rails app on heroku in just a few minutes. If you're looking for an easy way to start incorporating background jobs into your app, try this out.
An approach to resolving csrf issues when building rails apps with react and the webpacker gem
In this post, we create a fully functional cryptocurrency portfolio using react and ruby on rails. We will learn how to get the real-time prices on over 1300+ cryptocurrencies, and how to calculate the values based off the market price for different cryptoassets.
In this post, we are going to dive into building your first react app with ruby on rails. We will be using the webpacker gem, which will let us manage everything together in a single app, instead of creating a separated react app and rails api.