Author: Mark Otto

What the React community is doing and thinking

July 24, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Build a Waitlist with Clerk User Metadata — Discover how to implement a waitlist in your app using Clerk’s user metadata, including setting up an admin dashboard for efficient user access management. This guide simplifies controlling user entry and enhances your app’s onboarding workflow. Clerk |…

AI Web App Generator to Make Apps in Minutes

July 23, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Imagine creating a fully functional web app in minutes, without writing a single line of code. Are you tired of spending countless hours coding your web applications? Is there a faster, more efficient way to develop robust business software? Have you ever wondered how AI…

Node.js v22.5 includes SQLite, but..

July 23, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Node.js v22.5.0 (Current) Released – But Don’t Install It! — A notable release for three reasons: first, the WebSocket feature in node:http is now exposed. Second, remember how Node is embedding SQLite? node:sqlite is now included and ready to play with. Third, however, v22.5.0 introduced a nasty…

Exploring JavaScript (ES2024 Edition)

July 18, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

WorkOS: The Modern Identity Platform for B2B SaaS — Start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. WorkOS provides flexible, easy-to-use APIs to integrate SSO, SCIM, and RBAC in minutes. It’s used by hundreds of high-growth startups including Perplexity, Vercel, Drata, & Webflow.…

Getting Started with Cilium Service Mesh on Amazon EKS

July 17, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Cilium is an open source solution for providing, securing, and observing network connectivity between workloads, powered by the revolutionary kernel technology called extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF). eBPF enables the dynamic insertion of security, visibility, and networking logic into the Linux kernel. Cilium provides high-performance…

Free Open-Source CRM Software for Small Business

July 17, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

“For small businesses in the digital age, choosing the correct Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool can make all the difference.” When looking for CRM software, you can find yourself wondering: How may CRM tools enable my small firm to expand Which free open-source CRM choices…

Why use Redux in 2024?

July 17, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

What React Devs Need to Know About React Native — While React and React Native share many similarities, they’re pretty different under the hood. Here’s some of what you need to know to either make the transition, or at least be more informed on where React…

Stream if you wanna go faster

July 16, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Work Progresses on node:sqlite — Last week, we featured efforts to include SQLite and a client library into the Node distribution. Things continue to progress quickly, with the feature proposed for inclusion in the forthcoming Node v22.5. You can see how it’ll work in this…

Chat about your AWS account resources with Amazon Q Developer

July 14, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

The traditional way customers had to interact with AWS account resources was through the AWS Management Console, SDKs, or command line interface (CLI) calls. However, these methods do not provide a quick way to gather information about AWS resources without writing scripts or navigating thought…