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When the time comes to delete an old S3 bucket, it’s important to know that they can’t be deleted while they contain content. Here’s what you can do about it from the CLI…

An alternative calendar for the geek in your heart…

In this house we celebrate…

Here’s a fun alternative celebration calendar. It’s a collaboration between friends, and we’ll keep improving it. It’s for you, for the geek in your life, or the nerd in your heart. You can add it to Google Calendar for the full experience, or visit it on its own page.

How to use Open Social Distributor to post threads and messages across multiple social networks at once.

What if your UI was a slide show?

Reveal in React

TLDR: Here’s a template repository for a NextJS app with a Reveal slide show UI: instantiator/reveal-on-next

OAuth Token Explorer is a tool to explore authentication and authorisation on behalf of a user.

json-to-smart-csv is a tool to help build CSV records from arbitrary JSON…

A quick guide to running your own tile server, with a geo database populated from OpenStreetMap data.