TL; DR; Using JS to dynamically change the details of a transaction processed by Simplify’s hosted payment service, after page already loaded — you need to change how you load the Simplify JS script. See a working LIVE solution at https://www.kipanga.com.au/make-payment.html …

TL; DR; simple extension for Magento 2 that allows you to change Magento 2 SMTP settings. Link at the bottom. Every time I set up a new Magento 2 website on an AWS EC2 instance, there comes the moment that I need to configure the SMTP settings. It’s never an…

Update I’ve released an updated version with additional features: Auto IP Update — when activated, the React app will detect IP address changes and will update current SG Rules accordingly. Current SG Rules List — each user can now see their current rules and to delete rules they don’t need any…

Interested in configuring your QNAP NAS to automatically sync critical data with a S3 bucket? Concerned about the security aspects in QNAP instructions? This post is for you! — tl-dr Use the below instructions to create an IAM user and policy to restrict your QNAP to access only what it needs instead of all your S3 buckets. Use the newly created user’s access/secret keys when setting up QNAP’s S3 Plus app.

s3fs isn’t new. There’s been quite a lot of talk about it already. What I did find missing though was how to configure it to mount on boot. There’s some references to it in the FAQ, but that didn’t work for me. …

There are many examples out there, but I couldn’t find a single spot that centralises it all and is aligned with the AWS documentation. The below tips highlight what I feel is kinda odd, isn’t fully covered in the docos or simply requires some attention. I hope this will be…

Last week one of my clients asked me to build for them a landing page for a conference they were organising. All they needed was a page with some info about the conference and a “contact us” form. …

This is a follow up on my previous post about mapping error messages from AWS Lambda to an API-GW HTTP client. The Symptom So you’ve mapped your Lambda errors to proper HTTP status codes. You also cleaned the error message and added it to the response body. All seems in place. …

UPDATE — don’t miss the follow up which deals with not being able to read errors HTTP response body. There are quite a few articles out there about how to map lambda errors in API-GW so that we can pass detailed errors to the client. …