Toddler Activities – ABCs and Counting

These blogs have terrible formatting, here’s a list of activities for toddlers with a brief description and a link to the original blog https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cCNlwIHDeLu9QNXDrzFcomw9gxa8m_HQaMG-vpS20lc/edit?usp=sharing Pasta Play (Motor) https://www.messylittlemonster.com/2016/05/pasta-play-simple-activities-for.html Stick dried spaghetti through an upside down collinder Stack cheerios on dried spaghetti Play cook pasta Color Match (Motor) Using tweasers, take colored items from middle bowl and separate into smaller bowls Erase Alphabet Write on window in dry erase marker, call

Who will we pay for streaming?

Disney bought out Comcast to take full ownership of Hulu, so I thought I would take a look at who we’ll be paying in a couple of years when the dust settles on all the new streaming services that have been announced in 2019 so far. What I think is interesting to keep an eye on is the ability of these conglomerates to provide discounts or exclusive packages to customers

Forwarding AWS RDS instance to localhost

First, I’m assuming you’ve got both an EC2 instance and an RDS instance in the same VPC, as mentioned in my article on setting up a Rails application to deploy to Elastic Beanstalk. I’m also assuming you’ve created a .pemkey and downloaded it to connect to this EC2 instance configure an alias in ssh config to connect to the EC2 instance test the ssh config: ssh my_app add this alias

Deploying a Rails API to Elastic Beanstalk in 2019

aws eb deploy Create a status controller and route for EB health checks Add route in config/routes: get ‘/ping’ => ‘status#ping’ Create ElasticCache cluster with 1 node, t2.micro or t2.small, 0 replication nodes Create RDS node, postgres, with no multiAZ deployment, General SSD I only use one database per RDS instance, but you could do multiple databases and have an integration and staging environment share the same RDS instance, I’ll

Setting up Flutter v1.2 for development in 2019 (as if it was installed by Homebrew)

Following instructions from Google on how to install Flutter is great, but I also want it to work like all my other dev tools. Because Flutter does not have a homebrew install supported by Google as of April 2019 (https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/14050), I’ve done the following Google’s instructions: https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/install/macos Download as instructed mv flutter/ /usr/local/Cellar/ sudo ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/flutter/bin/flutter /usr/local/bin/flutter As long as you have /usr/local/bin set up for other formulas installed