Apex – Serverless Infrastructure

Apex lets you build, deploy, and manage AWS Lambda functions with ease. A variety of workflow related tooling is provided for testing functions, rolling back deploys, viewing metrics, tailing logs, hooking into the build system and more. Define a project.json as so … { “name”: “bar”, “description”: “Node.js example function”, “runtime”: “nodejs”, “memory”: 128, “timeout”: …

Multi-layered Parallax Illustration

See the Pen Multi-layered Parallax Illustration by Patryk Zabielski (@zabielski) on CodePen. Good use of data-* attributes to afford manipulation of the shifting of the backgrounds from within the HTML. Do note that the demo won’t run here on bram.us as the narrow screen layout – without parallax – will be used. Multi-layered Parallax Illustration …

Simple PHP Valuestore Class

If you’re looking for a simple Value Store (you know: key-value) Freek and Jolita over at spatie has whipped up a simple class that does this for you. $valuestore = Valuestore::make($pathToFile); $valuestore->put('key', 'value'); $valuestore->get('key'); // Returns 'value' $valuestore->has('key'); // Returns true // Specify a default value for when the specified key does not exist $valuestore->get('non …

Safari Technology Preview

Safari Technology Preview is a version of Safari for OS X, distributed by Apple, that includes a cutting-edge, in-development version of the WebKit browser engine. It’s a great way to test upcoming WebKit features and give feedback to the people building them when it’s most useful — early in development. Think Webkit Nightly, but then …

Update package.json dependencies with npm-check-updates

npm-check-updates is a command-line tool that allows you to upgrade your package.json or bower.json dependencies to the latest versions, regardless of existing version constraints. npm-check-updates maintains your existing semantic versioning policies Install it using npm install -g npm-check-updates Then run ncu to check for updates, and run ncu -u to actually update your package.json / …

Diff two certificate files with certdiff

If you’ve ever had to handle certificates, it can sometimes – especially when renewing them – become confusing to know which certificate is which. Enter certdiff, a handy diff tool for certificates, by Mattias Geniar: $ ./certdiff cronweekly.com/cert.pem sysca.st/cert.pem subject= /CN=cronweekly.com | subject= /CN=sysca.st issuer= /C=US/O=Let’s Encrypt/CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority issuer= /C=US/O=Let’s Encrypt/CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority notBefore=Feb …