As much as I love Firebase, especially it’s easy to implement authentication, for some things Firebase can be a bit confusing when you go to implement them.
For Firebase Authentication, sadly, you cannot store any additional information and easily query it for authenticated users. You can leverage custom claims to add little pieces of meta to a user (like roles), but for things such as profile data, you can’t.
Fortunately, there is a solution you can easily implement using Firebase Functions and triggers.
Whenever I am working I listen to a wide-variety of different genres of music. My dominant genre is metal and other derivatives of heavy music which I enjoy. Then I also listen to blues as well as rap/hip-hop and instrumental music too.
One of my more recent genre additions is Lo-fi. Admittedly, I am late to the party on the Lo-fi music genre, but it has been a game-changer for me and how I work. It’s not a genre of music I would have listened to a couple of years ago.
In these uncertain pandemic times, seeing mask shortages and other shortages has our family thinking about self-sustainability. What can we rely on when supply chains fail? Not just food, but things like clothing and the hot topic right now: masks.
A decent mask requires three layers of protection and material. You have the outer layer, the middle layer and then the inner layer. The ear loops are the final step, but they don’t offer protection.
I think many would agree that 2020 has been a terrible year on multiple fronts. One of the biggest dampers on 2020 was COVID-19, which has changed how we live, interact, work and go about our daily lives.
Perhaps the biggest positive and upside to COVID-19 is the remote work revolution that was forced upon everyone. For some of us, we were ready for it and either already remote working or wanting too. Companies had a choice, allow their employees to work remotely or not work at all.
COVID-19 has changed how we live and how we work, it has also changed how we parent. As parents have been thrown into the unknown as schools are closed or parents take their kids out over fears of bringing the virus home.
My wife and I have two children; a five-year-old boy and a one-and-a-half-year-old girl. Keeping our active son entertained during moments of quarantine has been very challenging, to put it mildly.
A few days ago I came across an article by Jared Palmer titled GitHub isn’t fun anymore besides the somewhat clickbait-y title he talks about the changes that GitHub has made to the trending section and how GitHub doesn’t feel fun any more.
Sure, the trending page is a cool little gimmick section where you can see popular repositories (or used to be able too), but GitHub was never about fun or non-code features. GitHub is a tool.
You have yourself an Aurelia app (or you will soon), and you want to host it on GitHub Pages because GitHub provides a generous free hosting solution that gets powered from the Git repository itself.
Fortunately, the process couldn’t be more straightforward. A lot of this post will apply to other frameworks and libraries besides Aurelia 2. However, we will be focusing on Aurelia 2 only.
This article assumes the following:
I am a huge fan of Let’s Encrypt and their free SSL certificate service using Certbot. However, recently whilst setting up a new domain name and attempting to get a certificate, I encountered an error I had never experienced before.
The client lacks sufficient authorization :: The key authorization file from the server did not match this challenge It couldn’t access the folder where it stored the secrets and was resulting in a 404 error. I manually created the folder and I could access it, so why Certbot couldn’t was a mystery.
I have been using Travis CI for my continuous workflow needs for a very long time now. It does what it does and it does it well. However, Travis is an additional service you have to configure and login to, it is a bit disjointed from the code itself.
When GitHub announced Actions, it was a game-changer. Essentially, it was Travis CI embedded into GitHub itself. Over time, the community have run with GitHub Actions and now there are numerous “recipes” to do tasks inside of your actions.
The thing with SSH authentication is I can never remember the steps to generate an SSH key, and then add that SSH public key to the remote server so SSH authentication works.
I had all of this in a text file, but honestly, I reference my own blog for knowledge on how to do things all of the time, I thought I’d write up a quick post.
You can find numerous blog posts on this, but I always seem to find a straightforward explanation to give me what I need, that I just consulted my text file on my desktop.