Category: Web work

These days, most of my work is very related to the online world. Building web sites, reviewing web applications, integrating with web services, coordinating people who are far away from each other, etc. Whenever I find a new tool or service or an innovative, interesting idea about working online, I share it in this category.

Using aws-cli –query Option To Simplify Output

Eric Hammond shares a super-handy tip for those of us who work with Amazon AWS via the command line:

I just learned about a recent addition to aws-cli: The --query option lets you specify what parts of the response data structure you want output.

Instead of wading through pages of JSON output, you can select a few specific values and output them as JSON, table, or simple text. The new --query option is far easier to use than jq, grep+cut, or Perl, my other fallback tools for parsing the output.

Read the rest of his blog post for a few examples of how to use it.

WordPress Configuration Cheat Sheet

“WordPress Configuration Cheat Sheet” is a collection of about 10 tips for a more secure WordPress configuration file.  Obviously, not all of them can always be applied, but it’s a good idea to review your own settings once in a while and to disable unnecessary bits.

brick/math – Arbitrary-precision arithmetic library for PHP

PHP is well-known for its rather basic interpretation of precision numbers and operations on those.  BC Match extension helps, but sometimes one needs more.  brick/math is a composer-installable library that helps with arbitrary-precision arithmetic.

HTTP/3 via QUIC

As we are still trying to get the grip with HTTP/2, the world is moving on.  Here’s the blog post with some initial details on HTTP/3 and QUIC.  Turns out, we moving away from TCP to UDP with encryption.

Here are more details from the CloudFlare blog post.

Let the fear, uncertainty, and doubt begin!

AWSome Day Athens 2018

Last week I’ve attended the AWSome Day Athens 2018 (huge thanks to Qobo for the opportunity).  There aren’t that many technology events in Cyprus, so I’m constantly on the lookout for events in Europe.

AWSome Day Athens is part of the Amazon’s AWSome Day Global Series, which are one day events organized all throughout the world.  The events are usually for a single day, featuring the speakers from both Amazon AWS team and some of their prominent clients from the area.  AWSome Day Athens 2018 was done in partnership with Beat.

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