Articles, notes and random thoughts on Software Development and Technology
When using multiple monitors on my Macs I would do this by mistake and thought it was some weird bug 🙂 Turns out, if you pull down your mouse at the bottom of the screen, this moves the Dock to that screen.
Useful when you use multiple monitors, annoying if you do it by accident and don’t know the feature exists 🙂
All software developers should take notes. That’s a given. There’s far too much information we come across daily that it’s impossible to remember everything without taking notes.
Ok, so what approach should you take for your note taking? As software developers, building your own note taking app would be an interesting side project for learning a new language or framework. Before you jump to that extreme though, consider some of the simpler alternatives first.
Going from simpler to more complex, here’s some options:
If you create and deploy your own software projects to the cloud, at some point you probably end up with a number of things deployed to various places and unless you spend time maintaining your bookmarks to all these projects, it becomes hard to keep track after a while.
One of the interesting things about Route 53 is that you can create A records that resolve to IP addresses either within AWS or hosted elsewhere. If you have you own domain setup in Route 53, you can easily create subdomains with A records pointing to where ever these projects are hosted. e.g.
example1.youdomain.com -> x.x.x.x
example2.yourdomain.com -> y.y.y.y
A while back I deployed my Sudoku Solver React app to an S3 bucket hosting the website, and I can never remember the S3 endpoint name. But using a Route 53 Alias to the S3 endpoint, you can create whatever subdomain you need to point to the target resource. Here’s what it looks like setting up an alias:
Notes:
As Apple has announced that it is transitioning from Intel CPUs to ARM in new upcoming MacBooks, it’s also worth noting that for the first time ever, the world’s fastest supercomputer is powered by ARM CPUs. Lot’s of them. Apparently over 7 million cores.