Matt Button

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For the last five or so years, I’ve been using Jetbrains Rider as my primary IDE for C# work, and Webstorm for any Javascript, Typescript, and NodeJS work.

Minimal APIs were first introduced in ASP.NET Core 6.0 and have been around for some time now.

I recently purchased a USB stick so that I could try out a few different Linux Live images.

Are you wondering whether it’s worth cutting costs on cloud providers, and setting up servers yourself for your freelancing?

We’ve all got busy lives, and it can sometimes be difficult to find time to sit down and read a chunky and dense programming book.

useEffect is a kind of “escape hatch” which lets you perform side effects in functional components.

I recently watched a presentation by Scott Hanselman about scaling yourself and it was enlightening; the key message was that you can’t keep up with everything, and in the presentation, Scott talked about ways of taming the torrent of information and lists

If you’re new to Docker, it’s hard figuring out even what to search for, and how the concepts tie together, let alone what to pay attention to for your use case.

Using Redux with React can be incredibly challenging for people to get their head around; while the core principles of Redux itself are fairly straightforward and don’t take too long to grasp, a lot of people struggle with using Redux in React apps.

In this blog post I’ll show you how to scrape stock upgrade and downgrade data from Yahoo Finance using Python, Beautiful Soup, json, and a bit of regular expression magic.

I first read Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim back in 2018 when it was a hot topic in the office; only an hour or two would go by between overhearing somebody talk about it, internal blog posts were being written, and we’d receive emails

As your career progresses, you’ll discover an increasing number of opportunities for mentoring others, and being an effective mentor will become increasingly important.

A collection of 5 things from the week that I found interesting, am enjoying, or am working on.

I’m not sure why it’s taken so long, but after 13 years of Webstock existing, this year was the first time that I attended.

Does the font in Chrome look really grainy in Windows when using RDP, even though fonts in all other apps look fine?

Currently there’s a bug in recent versions of create-react-app where debug breakpoints aren’t working in Chrome.

A collection of 5 things from the week that I found interesting, am enjoying, or am working on.

Using Git on Windows is way easier once you find a combination of tools that you’re comfortable with.

Impromptu speaking in front of an audience is challenging for most of us.

In this blog post, you’ll learn how to host a sample Python web app on Elastic Beanstalk, using HTTPS, without a load balancer.

A collection of 5 things from the week that I found interesting, am enjoying, or am working on.

In this blog post I’ll show you how to scrape Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow data for companies from Yahoo Finance using Python, LXML, and Pandas.

One of the books that I read over the summer break was “Are we there yet?

I’ve been using Hugo for my blog for the last few years, and recently published my first theme - Silhouette Hugo.

A collection of 5 things from the week that I found interesting, am enjoying, or am working on.

In this blog post, you will learn how to create a Python app using Flask and the Google API which will: Support Google Authentication with Python and Flask Restrict access via an OAuth scope, so that the app can only view and manage Google Drive files and…

A collection of 5 things from the week that I found interesting, am enjoying, or am working on.

I recently attended a presentation by BNZ’s Chief Economist, Tony Alexander.

If you attempt to read encrypted data from a DynamoDB table which has been restored from a backup to a DynamoDB table which doesn’t match the original table name, you may see the following errors: TL;DR the restored DynamoDB table must have the same name…

The recommended way to enable HTTPS in Elastic Beanstalk is to use one of AWS’s load balancers such as the Application Load Balancer (ALB) which supports autoscaling, fault tolerance, and other things.

When I first started using CKEditor 5 with create-react-app, I installed CKEditor as an npm module, and imported the ClassicEditor build as recommended by the quickstart.

Software development Visual Studio Code for HTML/CSS/JS/Python/Markdown/Text editing.

Life and Mindset The New Psycho Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey Principles by Ray Dalio How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams The 4 Hour…

I completed the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam in November 2017, after about eight weeks study, with a score of 85%.

I’ve been hosting this blog on Amazon S3 for a few months now, and thought it would be a good idea to write about how it’s set up, in case future me needs to refer to it, and to give pointers to anybody else who is interested in setting up their own websi…

After heaps of study, I passed AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam, with an overall score of 85%.

A collection of links, with a Wellington focus, which I frequently use to work out if it’s worth going for a dive or not.

These notes were written while working through the A Cloud Guru AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate online course.

These notes were written while working through the A Cloud Guru AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate online course.

These notes were written while working through the A Cloud Guru AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate online course.

These notes were written while working through the A Cloud Guru AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate online course.

These notes were written while working through the A Cloud Guru AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate online course.

These notes were written while working through the A Cloud Guru AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate online course.

These notes were written while working through the A Cloud Guru AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate online course.

These notes were written while working through the A Cloud Guru AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate online course.

Fiddler is an awesome tool for debugging web services.

Earlier this evening I installed .NET core preview 2 on Debian Sid, and tried to create a new project via the dotnet new command, only to get a segmention fault error message: matt@IDSiG:~/git/testproject$ dotnet new console Segmentation fault In this in…

Sometimes, when being interviewed for a job as a software developer, you’ll be asked a question such as “write a method that takes an integer as a parameter, and returns it’s factorial.”