Inbox Zero in Outlook without deleting an email

Inbox Zero in Outlook without deleting an email

2 min read
Many email organisers recommend a ruthless approach to email management. However, for me, email is an important record of all conversations and a record of what happened, it forms a journal of important details, which I rely upon when needed. Therefore deleting email is not an option. Yet, still finding emails that need to be answered or emails that represents a task I
Low Latency Serverless Typeahead using CloudFlare Workers

Low Latency Serverless Typeahead using CloudFlare Workers

5 min read CloudFlare
Helping users find what they want fast is essential for a good user experience. Using a typeahead input box allows this. But to be effective it needs to be fast. Typeahead search at www.signasl.orgThe fastest solution would be to have all the search entries available locally on the browser. But for this website there is currently 41,046 entries, taking 508kb
Business Owner Technical Guide - Domains

Business Owner Technical Guide - Domains

2 min read CloudFlareBusiness Owner Technical Guide
Any new business owner needs a domain. Essential for your web presence, emails and other internet services. Most important is that you maintain ownership of the domain. Don't allow an outsource web development company to register the domain on your behalf. If you ever have issues with that company then they have you over the barrel. Of if you wish to engage other
CloudFlare - Add user to account

CloudFlare - Add user to account

1 min read CloudFlare
To allow me to configure your CloudFlare account in a secure way without sharing your login details, login to your CloudFlare account, then from the dashboard (1) Select Manage Account, then Members from the Side Panel on the left. (2) Invite a member by entering in my email address [email protected] and press Add. (3) Choose a Scope by either defining individual
SignASL 2021 Review

SignASL Year in Review 2021

1 min read SignASLYear in Review
End of a year, so time for a quick analysis of the year. SignASL has been running since 2013 and has experienced growth every year. This year 24,887,947 searches were completed, a massive increase of 39% from last year! It is always interesting to see what people search for. Below is the top 50 searches. Search Query No. Searches % change **** 19,
SignBSL 2021 Review

SignBSL Year in Review 2021

2 min read SignBSLYear in Review
End of a year, so time for a quick analysis of the year. SignBSL has been running since 2013 and has experienced growth every year. This year 23,433,479 searches were completed, an increase of just over 16% from last year. It is always fascinating to see what people search for. I have included the top 50 searches below. Search Query No.

Request does not contain domain name information but is derived from APIGatewayProxyFunction

1 min read AWS
Ingesting CloudWatch logs cost money ($0.57 per GB log data ingested), so removing log lines that are not useful will save you money. In my C# API project the logs are filled with this Warning: [Warning] Amazon.Lambda.AspNetCoreServer.AbstractAspNetCoreFunction: Request does not contain domain name information but is derived from APIGatewayProxyFunction. This warning comes from the code found in Amazon.Lambda.
Identify and monitor missing AWS S3 files using Athena

Identify and monitor missing AWS S3 files using Athena

5 min read AWS
Like many websites and mobile apps, www.signbsl.com hosts its static media files using S3, which provides a reliable service without managing servers. The bucket currently holds more than 126,000 images and videos. On a self hosted solution to find missing files I would usually use the Apache Access Logs. But with S3 you need to use Server access logging to
Calling dotnet core Lambda API direct from PHP

Calling dotnet core Lambda API direct from PHP

1 min read PHPAWS
Usually a API Gateway is placed in front of a Lambda to allow HTTP requests to be forwarded to a Lambda function. However even when using the HTTP API this still costs $1 per million invocations. To save costs I have setup the PHP website to call the Lambda function direct. Here is how to call the Lambda function and pass the request
SignBSL

SignBSL

2 min read Sign Language
A personal project of mine started in 2013 when my wife and I started learning sign language. An important part of learning any new language is building vocabulary. At the time there was just a handful of sites that provided a video dictionary, but the number of signs they contained was small meaning it often required searches across multiple sites, as each site