Serverless helps you with functions as a service across multiple providers. Using serverless with AWS allows you to tie these functions into your AWS infrastructure, or tie it into existing resources. Previously you couldn’t use existing S3 buckets for serverless lambda events. Today I learned that you can now use existing buckets.

When working with raw bytes in Golang it can be a little difficult to debug. If you are new to the language or just want to quickly check some data as a human readable text blob it is useful to have a technique for doing this.

Sometimes you just need to say it from a bash script and some times your CI provider won’t be OK with that. Today I learned of one such provider, CircleCI who didn’t want to play nicely with using say

If you’ve ever had to work with a lot of date logic in javascript you’ve likely used or at least seen Momentjs. It can be convenient for moving dates to other timezones or date math. I ran into another today I learned moment trying to write some tests in Jest while using moment to handle dates in test setup and fixtures.

For a today I learned moment I ran into the new endless range feature in ruby 2.6 by coming across some code that triggered this error message:

RangeError (cannot get the last element of endless range)

The code that was updated to the latest ruby 2.6 release had a dynamic range that was pulling fields from a database and doing something like this:

I recently needed to get the current file absolute path from a go file. You first need to get the runtime package which is a part of Go