Chris Cook

TIL you can use `@entity.Attributes.Lambda.Function` to group messages from multiple different log groups. Useful when you need to analyze cold starts from many Lambdas with a single cloudwatch query.

✍️ New blog post by Chris Cook Flatten Array of Arrays using JSONata for AWS Step Functions #aws #programming #tutorial #javascript

It would be nice if there was a way to pause Lambdas while waiting for a HTTP response. Like fire of a few requests, the Lambda goes into hibernate and automatically resumes when all requests have concluded.

Using a reasoning model for coding feels like driving a sports car in stop-and-go traffic

Long lived AWS IAM credentials for the management console would be nice

Glad it's open source github.com/gskinner/reg...

Looks like my favorite Regex testing site is down 😭 regexr.com

In 2011, there was an proposal to change the type of null `typeof null === null` Too bad it didn't get accepted web.archive.org/web/20160331...

Maybe soon we can use response streaming from AWS Lambda with @trpc.io 👀 github.com/trpc/trpc/pu...

Found this TODO in my codebase 😄 If I make a PR, will @vitest.dev accept it? 👀

I started a discussion for a new asymmetric matcher for @vitest.dev that checks if a property does not exist. Basically, the opposite of `expect.anything()`, could be named `expect.nothing()` Would love to get some feedback 🙏 github.com/vitest-dev/v...

TIL `$*` captures all positional arguments into a space separated string You can abuse this for a Git alias to avoid typing the commit message in double quotes: `gc my commit message`

I can't emphasize enough how great this post about quantization is!

It's funny, @sindresorhus.bsky.social has a package for literally everything I search for. I should probably prefix my Google searches with "site:github.com/sindresorhus/"

I wrote a follow up on this topic on @dev.to dev.to/zirkelc/type...

Building and deploying a React app to a static hosting service like Amazon S3 and CloudFront is a good example for a CLI in TypeScript. Adding Listr2 and Execa to create an easily extensible CLI with `build` and `deploy` command. asciinema.org/a/DFlVSxmoWD...

I always wondered how people create these beautiful terminal recordings. github.com/asciinema/as...

TIL Press the . key on any repository to switch github.dev github.com/github/dev

It's so funny how confident LLMs are when they make mistakes. The model generates invalid code. You specifically ask them about lines of code. The model confidently explains how it works. You give them the error. The model is like "Ah, you're absolutely right - I apologize for my mistake!"

What if `expect(obj).toMatchPrompt("...")` was a thing It's probably a stupid idea, but I couldn't resist and quickly implemented @vitest.dev custom matcher

I wish VSCode would accept S3 URLs Cmd+P, paste S3 URL, enter and it opens the file

I love how you can use TypeScripts' unique symbols as a parking spot for types 👀 Here's a simple query helper function to attach the result type to an object and infer it back later I've shared a complete example on @dev.to: dev.to/zirkelc/uniq...

Just found out about Microsofts' GenAIScript and not sure how to feel about it Anyone tried it yet? github.com/microsoft/ge...

Vitest v3 has just been released 👀 github.com/vitest-dev/v...

Here's @tkdodo.eu original post where I saw this pattern for the first time. It's also the first time that using TypeScripts' `unqiue symbol` has made any sense to me. tkdodo.eu/blog/the-que...

Inspired by React Query's `queryOptions()`, I made a little helper to add the type of the parameter and the return type to the query definition (yes, I know about ORM). The next step would be to use template literal types to parse the parameters and return type from the query string.

I just stumbled upon `unbuild` from @unjs.io Bundling for ESM and CJS is already super easy thanks to `tsup`, but `unbuild` looks even nicer! github.com/unjs/unbuild

Some packages like Chalk by @sindresorhus.bsky.social are so popular that you can literally run for years without issues before you notice that you missed to declare it as dependency.

I think I've finally found an efficient way to use LLMs for writing articles: 0. Draft article 1. Ask LLM to check the logic: does it make sense? No text changes 2. Ask LLM to fix spelling and grammar. No rewrites, only proofreading 3. Ask LLM to rewrite the text. Keep ideas, express them better

I released `aws-sigv4-sign` today. It contains the core logic for signing requests with AWS SigV4, but does not use the fetch API The question now is: if you use fetch, then use `aws-sigv4-fetch`. In all other cases (axios, got, ky, node:https...) use `aws-sigv4-sign` www.npmjs.com/package/aws-...

@arethetypeswrong doesn't support @pnpm.io `publishConfig` to override package.json export fields when using live types As workaround, we can run pnpm pack, extract the tarball name and pass it to @arethetypeswrong to check the types: `pnpm pack | tail -n1 | xargs attw` github.com/arethetypesw...

I use jest-dynalite to run DynamoDB locally to avoid mocking database calls. It's so fast that I can create the necessary items before each test and reset the whole database between test. It's really good! Btw, despite the name, it works with well @vitest.dev github.com/freshollie/j...

It's crazy to think how different the experience must be for someone starting out in programming today vs. 15 years ago due to remote work and AI. When I started working in 2009, I learned so much by just sitting next to a person and watching them program.

In case you didn't know: In GitHub-flavored Markdown you can use <kbd> to specify keyboard input. Makes your shortcuts look ✨pretty✨

Ordinal dates with year-dayOfYear (YYYY-DDD) even have an ISO standard. And the math is so simple, because days are absolute (24*60*60 s) whereas months are relative (28/30/31 d). Basically you only need to know if the year has 365 or 366 days. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal...

Date and time is a fascinating topic. You basically only simple arithmetic (plus, minus, multiply, divide) to manipulate a millisecond value. It's weird how we've made it more complicated with calendars and timezones. Using ordinal numbers (day of the year) would simplify so much.

TIL: Vitest has a built-in option to suppress logs during tests. I usually spy on the logger/console object and mock the implementation to disable logging during tests. It turns out Vitest has `onConsoleLog` option to filter or even suppress logs. vitest.dev/config/#onco...

Finally closing a long standing issue with AWS SigV4 fetch and Node.js `Request` object and it was quite simple: I didn't copy the `duplex` property to the signed request, which caused a `TypeError` in certain cases 🫣 Luckily, someone pointed my in the right direction github.com/zirkelc/aws-...

ElectroDB in my opinion is the best library to work with DynamoDB github.com/tywalch/elec...

Wild that you can implement merge sort as type in TypeScript github.com/saiashirwad/...