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Just posting this in case anyone else has problems with getting AWS Lambdas to send CORS headers when using SAM. I spent a few hours before eventually getting it to work.

Good topic for a second blog post/skill share. Are there any other interesting topics you can think of? I think I know so much but in it too deep to remember what is unusual. These…

Practical Electronics for Inventors by Paul Scherz is pretty good, but hard for me to tell if it is good for a complete beginner as I come from a non-electrical/electronics enginee…

No side effects for me. I've always had bad night vision even with glasses so no noticeable effect for me, and no dry eyes like someone else reported on this thread. I guess my que…

I am in my early 30s and got PRK in my late 20s and absolutely do not regret my decision at all! It's been such a quality of life improvement. I am also a BJJ/Judo player and it re…

I use hammerspoon ( https://www.hammerspoon.org/ ) to run a lot of shortcuts for myself, I find that the lua language whilst a little strange but still more easier to grok than aut…

This sounds like my setup! I literally have 1 button startup for starting all my normal programs (including split tmux windows, each running appropriate startup commands for what e…

Developer now but was originally a mechanical engineer and have dealt with some CAD software in my time. Solidworks > Fusion360 >> AutoCAD 2D has been my experience. Though I have …

I think a key point that people fail to remember or marketing just oversells, is that there is no silver bullet for all the problems, especially for an industry that has so much hi…

Must be a legacy name, as they still have it as a unit at a Uni I've been to: https://handbook.curtin.edu.au/units/unit-ug-unix-and-c-prog...

Same, the air was a great machine and probably would have been fine, but work was willing to upgrade my machine to the pro and hand down my air to the new non-dev hire.

I have it set as a "super" modifier, i.e. cmd + ctrl + option + shift, perfect as then you can use it as a modifier for shortcuts as no programs use that a default keyboard shortcu…

Not sure what your requirements are but `virtualenv` would be the standard for python environments outside of `venv` which is in the standard library. I would have considered it so…

Every year with windows, never since switching to macs.

I have a love hate relationship with my resume being in LaTeX. It's annoying cause I find myself having to relearn LaTeX (I've never used LaTeX professionally since uni) when I nee…