At Jumble Journal, we are maintaining client-side encryption while implementing powerful AI features. The Goal Jumble is a daily journaling web-app built with client-side encryption which we aim to maintain. The goal is to be able to query your personal journal without server-side data ownership. Jumble users will be able to “chat”…

Practical vs Introspective Journaling After talking to many people about journaling I began to realise there are two broad categories. Most people think of journaling in terms of one or the other. Introspective Journaling The first category is introspective journaling which is inward focused. It is generally retrospective. It is characterised by…

Journaling is a powerful tool for processing emotions, reflecting on experiences, and organizing your thoughts. Here are five benefits of making journaling a part of your daily routine. Journaling is cathartic As a kid I remember complaining about my sister. I was pouting. No one wanted to hear my complaints of course, but…

I keep hearing the same thing. The new Large Language Models (like GPT-4) cause anxiety because Fear of job being replaced by LLM’s Fear of AI taking over the world and maybe killing us I think there is something deeper causing the anxiety which I’d like to share some thoughts…

In today's world, there are constant distractions and seemingly no facts we can all agree on. I have found that a daily journaling ritual is the perfect remedy for this confusion around us. It helps me sort through the clutter of social media, clickbait, politically charged news, and Netflix. …

AWS SAM Backend Integration Testing with GitHub Actions — This article contains some tips and code to help with adding Serverless Backend Integration tests to GitHub Actions. Integrating tests into the CI pipeline improves confidence that existing behavior has not been broken by changes. …

An in-depth guide to this amazing functionality — The image below shows a typical serverless stack on AWS. Route53 is the DNS provider, CloudFront is the edge distribution, API Gateway exposes an HTTPS/CORS compliant API, Lambda handles the backend logic, and DynamoDB handles storage. This serverless stack is scalable and can be encoded entirely with AWS SAM.

AWS Serverless application model — AWS SAM is a toolset for writing infrastructure as code and deploying it to the cloud. This guide will help you build robust integration tests for your AWS SAM serverless infrastructure following industry best practices. Testing With Custom Lambda Events AWS Lambda functions can be tested with custom events that isolate the function behavior. …

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