The (not so) Weekly Fitz

Preventing distractions on macOS

If you're like me, notifications, alerts and boucing things when working is at least annoying, and down right distracting when you're having a hard time focusing. Like I am right now, which is why I'm writing this post instead of actually working on my side project.

Serverless

Add an Apple App Site Association (AASA) to your Wix, Squarespace or whatever website, using Cloudflare Workers

I currently work at Spotr, a company building a mobile app. We rely on Wix for the landing page, for the simple reason that it's simple enough to use for the rest of

iOS Development

How to debug your JSON in Xcode when JSONDecoder fails

Sometimes, JSONDecoder fails. And when that happens, it can be difficult to figure out what went wrong. Not if you can print Data instances!

iOS Development

How to elegantly make sure you only setup your ViewController's UI on viewDidLoad

When handling navigation, we often end up having to pass some sort of state to our view controllers, wether directly or indirectly. Setting endless optional publicly exposed properties feels dirty and is a pain, while setting @IBOutlets before viewDidLoad is crash prone. Let's solve that together.

Serverless

Dynamize (aka variablize) your AWS deployment account using the Serverless framework

Last time we dynamized your serverless resources based on your deployment stage. Now we'll dynamize your AWS deployment account! Yes, that's right, automation all the way!

Serverless

Setup CORS in Serverless AWS

Struggling with CORS? Wondering how to get rid of those 'the preflight request has failed' or that 'origin https://whatever.com is not allowed' errors? Let's sort this together.

Serverless

Dynamize (aka "variabilize") your serverless resources' parameters with the Serverless Framework!

Do some proper namespacing for your DynamoDB tables and kinesis streams, avoid collisions between your features in ci and automatically clean up after you!

Tools

Block ads and trackers on your Mac with Little Snitch

Can't figure out which ad-blocker you can trust? Tired of seeing these mattress ads just after you bought one online? Look no further and adopt LittleSnitch!

Serverless

Use Cognito Federated Identities to authorize API Gateway access... and test it without an SDK!

You're building a Serverless microservice on AWS, authenticated via Cognito Federated Identity, and would like to test it? Read along!

Serverless

Don't think twice: Caching AWS Lambda behind a custom domain with CloudFront

Cache your AWS Lambda functions results and make your life easier with a custom domain using Cloudfront!

Serverless

␛the serverless vendor lock-in

You've learned about serverless but want to avoid getting locked-in? Already got burned and promised to yourself it wouldn't happen again? Come aboard!

Testing

Using rewire with Jest in Typescript

Want to test some private methods or mock unexposed functions? Having trouble using rewire in Typescript Land? You are in the right place.

iOS Development

Thrice blessed, Oh Core Data !

I was told to stay as far away as I could from Core Data. Some hate the poor thing, and others... don't really dislike him? Let's add my own story to this.