Software Development

This post is still a draft. Come back later. I have a Windows 98 SE virtual machine that I like to tinker with. I have Apache and PHP 5.1.X running on it. I have ansi.sys enabled MS-DOS terminal1, so I can have colors and create cool CLI apps2. I have VIM 7.3 installed in it.3 Surprisingly enough vim-plug and vim-airline work.45 This means we can have a very modern development expierience on Vim. Vim 7.3 has omni-completion (a type of intellisense) and JS syntax highlighting. For editing text files or keeping notes I also have Notepad++. 6 I also have webone installed. So I can connect to https sites. webone is a proxy that runs in a docker container that terminates the TLS connection. 7 ...

I wanted to see if I could create and publish an app (website) in one day. This app had to have some practical value. An app to keep track of the current book I am reading (Tom Clancy’s Oath of Office). I do use a bookmark, but it is very thin and I wanted an app where I can enter the page I’m currently on. So I created https://wpaio.one

Local development has many benefits. When you can edit something on your local development machine and see the changes immediately (hot-reload), it makes the feedback loop smaller and makes development that much faster. Different toolkits have different ways of trying to solve local dev. Serverless Offline is a plugin for the Serverless Framework simulates AWS Lambda and other serverless providers to give a working offline version of that serverless app you are trying to create. So instead of calling e.g. https://12312321.execute-api.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com/dev you would call http://localhost:3000/. There is LocalStack which will emulate the whole AWS ecosystem. And most front-end frameworks have some sort of hot-reload enabled toolkit. ...