Hammy Goonan

Signing a user up to your Cognito Pool using the AWS NodeJS SDK

Next-Auth is wonderful, and I've been using it a lot lately. But it only handles the OAuth flow (ie the login / logout functionality) of Cognito. However you need to roll your own Sign Up functionality as that sits outside the OAuth flow. Digging through the documentation around implimenting SignUp using

Sentencing laws

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk decision to increase penalties for violent crime is just going to leave more kids in gaol for longer making more career criminals. The vast majority of those kids will be Aboriginal or Torres Straight Islander and will never have a hope. It's disgusting. These crimes are

On AI

Update: don't read this, read much more informed people than me. This ChatGPT thing is pretty crazy, hey. I've got to say that as a software engineer with a healthy dose of imposter syndrome it makes me a little nervous. Are they going to take our jobs? Throughout history, people

Optus data breach not a 'hack'

Please stop calling it a 'hack'. Optus left an API endpoint with the data of millions of current and former customers exposed to the public internet with no authentication required. Then to make matters worse, they used sequential IDs so that anyone that found that API endpoint could just incrementally

What are your salary expectations?

No. What's your salary range? I don't want to waste anyone's time applying for a job that doesn't meet my salary expectations, so why not help us both out. If I was a little less generous of spirit, I'd have to assume you're not advertising it is so you can

Valé James Lovelock

I'm saddened by the news of the passing of James Lovelock. I remember first reading about the Gaia Hypotheses when I was doing my Masters degree. It spoke it me and really solidified a lot of my thinking about the environment and our place in it. There's something very viseral

Connecting to host database from a Docker container

Generally speaking, in a production environment, you don't want things like Nginx and your database running in Docker containers. You want those services running on the host and your application(s) in a container. The tricky part here is that localhost in a container is the container's network, not the

When the Currawongs come down from the mountains

I love birds, always have. Not a hardcore twicher or anything, just facinated by them and pay attention. Enough to feel quite moved when I see a Wedge-tailed Eagle. Enough for them to give me a sense of place. I lived overseas between 2010 and 2016. I went to Princes

Towards Continuous Integration

I've been using Ansible for deployment automation for a little while now and it's working really well for me. It doesn't take long for a Django website behind a load balancer to take a while to complicate which is where it's really helpful. To deploy you'll often need to pull

Hosting a static website in an S3 bucket with SSL gotchas

I recently deployed a static website to AWS using S3, CloudFront, Route 53 and the AWS Certificate manager. There we a few 'gotchas' in there so I thought I'd outline by process here for others: Certificate Manager Firstly, I created a free AWS SSL Certificate. It's pretty straight forward, just