In an attempt to use Go in the context of AWS, I wanted to see how Go would work with AWS Lambda. I decided to create a small project where the function would take an image and convert it to an ASCII art. Using Go for serverless functions Using Go for serverless functions makes a lot of sense. Speed of execution keeps the costs down and delivers the results quickly. When you are getting charged by the amount of resources you consume and the time it takes to complete your function, using a tec...| Evgenii Pendragon
Recently, I was working on customizing my tmux. I have made quite a few changes to the .tmux.conf file. In addition to that I have been making updates to my .zshrc and config.conf (Neofetch) files. I was trying out tmux on my other machine and I wanted to use the same setup there. That made me think up an idea of setting up one GitHub repository that would host all of my essential configuration files for different software that I use locally on my machines. For that to happen I needed the fol...| Posts on Evgenii Pendragon
I have been exploring some new tools here and there. When I started watching Primeagen, I took a note of several tools that he was using and advocating for. One of them was tmux. What is tmux? tmux is a terminal multiplexer. What that means is you can have many terminals in one. According to tmux wiki: tmux is a program which runs in a terminal and allows multiple other terminal programs to be run inside it. Each program inside tmux gets its own terminal managed by tmux, which can be accessed...| Evgenii Pendragon
I wanted to learn more about blockchain and how it works for a while now. Like many others, I have heard plenty about the applications of blockchain from cryptocurrency to NFT to healthcare ledgers. In this post, we will explore a simple blockchain application which will showcase one the main features of blockchain - the chaining itself. This application builds a chain of blocks that contain some simple transaction data which comprise a simple ledger application.| Evgenii Pendragon
Hello, there! 👋 Creating content I decided to start a blog to write on topics that are interesting to me or something that I would like to explore. The topics in this blog should cover tech, software development, cybersecurity, AI, business, recent news, and occasional book reviews. Hopefully the learnings that will be discovered in this blog will be useful to many more people. Building a brand Building a personal or a professional brand is important these days. Brand is associated with tr...| Evgenii Pendragon