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Posts about (mostly ham-fisted) Development.

Building a static site with S3, Cloudfront and Jekyll

I experimented with a static site, hosted on AWS S3. After some years, I have decided to preserve the blog basics here in one megapost, and shut down the original "Wordcasa" S3 site.

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Building my app foundation: Ionic + React, Amplify, Appsync, Lambda resolver

In this mega post, I will create an Ionic app that will initiate a query from a mobile front end, issue requests over the internet to an AWS GraphQL API, and via AppSync, invoke a Lambda, to process and return dummy data.

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What are AWS Amplify and AppSync, and should I use them?

I am old in IT but new in development, and I've been spending time researching what tools and platforms to use for a social-good app I am making. I have some idea now around which Javascript framework to use, and am diving in to deployment, integration, and hosting environments. So