Hey man! I hope you’re making good progress with the burnout. That is no fun. And I hope the move went well or is going great!
I missed my window for October, so I thought I’d do two meetings in November if that’s all right. Sorry!
I’ve got a fun thing for us to do next meeting—I’ll have my Gatsby/Sanity template done by then and I’d like for you to do a code review before I put up a blog post about it 🤠 I’m focusing on getting that and the cloud challenge done, and I think they’re both in range: I finished my CORS issues on the cloud challenge Saturday 💪 That feels like a blog post too: there’s a hard-to-find way to enable multiple CORS origins in AWS API Gateway without the performance penalty of a lambda proxy. By default, API Gateway only allows either one origin or ”*”, so if you want to allow, say, xyz.com and also www.xyz.com, you have to do a workaround that is a pain in the ass and/or a performance penalty. I found a second-reply on SO (I’m learning to always check all the replies because a lot of times the best ones are buried) that is an easy fix, doesn’t involve a performance penalty, and is terraformable. I was really surprised that there’s not a blog post about this so for the first time I feel like I have a responsibility to write one for everyone who comes after me 🤠
Once the vanilla version is done, hopefully in the next couple days, I want to do a big one with bells and whistles. I read the Phoenix Project and loved it, and I’ve been continuing my dive down the ops rabbit hole. I’ve found a couple O’Reilly books I like, and I want to dig into them and really build something cool next. I’m finding that at least for now it seems like this may be my thing. At the very least, it seems like right now it’s way easier to deal with procrastination on this stuff than on frontend stuff: if I can make it through a gnarly CORS issue without getting derailed that’s a good sign 🤠
The cloud challenge has got me thinking about other challenges people could do, and it occurred to me that if a recruiter did a networking challenge, that would probably be the single most effective way for people to get jobs. There’s a recruiter who’s really putting in work on Twitter named Taylor Desseyn, he’s a good dude and I’m gonna run this idea by him.
Other than that, it’s going to be an interesting few months for me coming up. My sister-in-law’s parents are going to move to Baltimore, so I’m going to stay here until they come. My brother has also said they really do enjoy having me here, so I’m welcome to stay as long as I like. So I’ll probably have 2-3 months before they come and then as long as I want after, so the plan may be to stay here until I find a job, then head out. I’ll probably winter in Austin, and maybe stay there till next summer. We’ll see!
Sorry for always writing such long emails 🤷🏻♂️ I hope you’re making good progress on the burnout and that in the meantime things are relatively comfortable, and I hope you quickly make it into the exciting-new-things part of the journey.
Talk to you soon! Have a great week.
Notes
Chris wants to build an app that he describes as a “bat signal” for social media. You would post a request for someone to post something for/to you, and they would come through to fulfill the request. For example, I need a puppy picture or I need some encouragement.
I need to check on the way he’s planning to use the pub/sub (SNS) to make sure it will do what he wants. He’s planning to use it to notify of new requests.
Todo
- Review architecture, particular SNS portion to see how that fits into the bigger picture