Revisiting a Challenge! — Disclaimer: I don’t work for Wool& and my views here are my own. Back in November 2021, I started a challenge to wear the same dress for 100 days straight. …

A few years ago, a couple of friends and I started reading the Nebula novel award nominees ahead of the awards and tried to predict the winner. Full disclaimer: I’m not very good at predicting the winner — I’ve managed it twice in the past 6 years (including predicting last…

Schedule your workflows using Infrastructure as Code — Amazon’s EventBridge Scheduler is a fairly new addition to the EventBridge service, released in November 2022. You can create a one-time or recurring schedule that invokes other AWS services in turn, making it easy to trigger workflows. AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is a framework that allows engineers to define…

Advice and Tips for taking the MLS-C01 exam — The AWS Machine Learning Specialty certification covers knowledge on developing, architecting, and running Machine Learning in the AWS Cloud. It is one of the six specialty certifications currently offered by AWS. While there are a ton of resources available for people studying for the Associate level exams, I didn’t find…

A guide to serving your Carrd site at multiple domains — AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) allows you to create and manage SSL/TLS certificates. These certificates help authenticate websites and allow encrypted connections. All websites have them — or should — as modern browsers tend to stop you from accessing sites where the certificates are invalid. AWS CloudFront is a global content…

Earnings and Reflections after One Year of Writing on Medium — I joined the Medium Partner Program on February 22nd, 2022, and I’ve been journaling about my monthly earnings — with the plan to keep it up until I’ve covered a year. If you’re interested in the previous months’ progress, you can find those stories here: February March April May June …

Build custom vocabularies to improve your transcriptions — Amazon Transcribe is one of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) machine learning offerings. You input audio or video; Transcribe converts it to text, allowing you to identify the languages used and the number of speakers in the process. …

My Eleventh Month in the Medium Partner Program — I joined the Medium Partner Program on February 22nd, 2022, and I’ve been journaling about my monthly earnings. I plan to keep this up until I’ve covered a year. If you’re interested in the previous months’ progress, you can find those stories here: February March April May June July August …

How to deploy a simple Lambda & S3 app using CDK — The more I’ve been using AWS CDK the more I like it. I’ve always found raw CloudFormation to be both tedious and verbose, and CDK feels like a quicker and easier way to define and manage your infrastructure. In this story, I’ll explain how to get started with CDK and…