On November 18, 2022, AWS announced support for Node.js v18 in AWS Lambda. If you want to run Prisma v4 on AWS Lambda using the Node.js v18 managed runtime and ARM64 architecture, and you already have a working setup in Node.js 14 or 16, there’s a crucial change to make. …

An easy read providing enough value to be worth your time. — Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, a combined effort by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, and Ola Rosling is a relatively quick and easy read worth your time. In the book, Rosling condenses the culmination of insights about the…

Restrictions make things complicated: visas, many forms, lots of documents, and tracking apps. A summary of my experience written on the last day of quarantine. Today is my last day of a 14-day quarantine required of all international travelers arriving in Japan. In this article I’ll try to capture some…

How one company is thinking ‘outside the blocks’ and storing energy in concrete towers — A couple of hours south of Zürich, Switzerland, in the Canton of Ticino, you’ll find a battery made out of concrete blocks. Energy Vault, the Swiss clean energy firm that built it, is about to go public via a SPAC merger with Novus Capital Corporation II. The sun doesn’t always…

Deploying and connecting to an AWS OpenSearch cluster from AWS Lambda using the Serverless Framework — all without using any plugins! — In this article, I’ll demonstrate one approach for provisioning an AWS OpenSearch Service domain with the Serverless Framework tooling, without using any plugins. Using CloudFormation syntax, we’ll create the OpenSearch cluster and then show how to make authorized requests to it using AWS Signature 4 signed requests. The article assumes…

Exposing some of the goodies hidden in the Playwright documentation — Playwright is an open source tool by Microsoft for browser automation and end-to-end testing. Playwright can drive Chromium (Chrome), WebKit (Safari) and Firefox in both headed and headless modes (with and without windows on the screen.) And, it comes with some pretty cool and powerful development and debugging tools that…

Three approaches to working with state data in your Playwright end-to-end tests — Playwright is an open source tool by Microsoft for browser automation and end-to-end testing. Playwright can drive Chromium (Chrome), WebKit (Safari) and Firefox in both headed and headless modes (with and without windows on the screen.) And, it comes with some pretty cool and powerful development and debugging tools that…

Learn about Playwright’s browser automation development and debugging tools to help make your end-to-end testing experience more enjoyable — Playwright is an open source tool by Microsoft for browser automation and end-to-end testing. Playwright can drive Chromium (Chrome), WebKit (Safari) and Firefox in both headed and headless modes (with and without windows on the screen.) And, it comes with some pretty cool and powerful development and debugging tools that…

Getting started with everything you need to write end-to-end (E2E) tests using Microsoft’s Playwright browser automation & test library. — Playwright is an open source tool by Microsoft for browser automation and end-to-end testing. It’s like Google’s Puppeteer, or the archived Chromeless. Playwright can drive Chromium (Chrome), WebKit (Safari) and Firefox in both headed and headless modes (with and without windows on the screen.) It supports Typescript out of the…