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Cristian Medina
Cristian Medina

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Using GitHub as a Flat Data Store and AWS Lambda to Update it

I spend most of my day, every day, knee deep in code. Optimizing, building, fixing and thinking through workflows can be taxing. This means that the last thing I want to do when I come home is deal with more programming. But I also like learning new things and communicating my experiences so they can help others. I do that through the posts in this website.

Maintaining a web presence without dealing with code means you get to use as many off-the-shelf components as possible. You consider things like WordPress or static site generators that let you concentrate on content, while handling the user interface for you. Write in markdown, build the website, rinse repeat with updates. It’s all very easy, until you need a little more interactivity, like a comments section, or a newsletter signup.

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Rehan van der Merwe

Why do you force us to read the rest of the story on your site? Not thank you sir..

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Renato Byrro

Yeah, looked strange to me as well...