Rob Sherling

Rob Sherling @rob117

About: I work in Japan and am fluent in Japanese. Open DMs on twitter if you any questions about language or programming!

Location:
Tokyo, Japan
Joined:
Mar 23, 2017

Rob Sherling
articles - 19 total

React Native PSA - select and highlight text with custom context menus

Selectable text highlights have been busted in react native for a long time. Now you can select text and use custom context menus without needing hacks.

Learn More 7 3Dec 18 '23

iOS Certificates and Profiles in 5 minutes

iOS certs and profiles were boring and confusing for me. This is a quick guide to how they work.

Learn More 5 1Dec 14 '21

My AWS service was over-provisioned by ~1000 times: A 5-minute guide on how to check app resource use on fargate

I had no idea how to do metrics, but I containerized my application and put it on fargate for an easy deploy. My bill was too big. Let me save you money.

Learn More 17 0Oct 9 '21

Working in Japan 2: Freelancing, Job Hopping, More Salary, Visa Types, Learning Japanese

A breakdown of freelancing, Japanese Visa Types, and more

Learn More 30 15Aug 8 '21

I'm a programmer changing jobs in Japan. This is a list of all the stuff I've learned on my job hunts.

I'm job hunting right now as a senior software engineer in Japan. This is about the things I do in an interview and how I filter companies out. Much of this advice is globally useful.

Learn More 16 6Feb 12 '20

Working in Japan: Myths, Realities, Salary, Culture (By A Software Engineer)

American with a few years as a software engineer at a few companies in Japan - what it's really like.

Learn More 276 123Aug 28 '19

How to use REST clients / native apps to make Shrine client uploads and S3 work for you (no Javascript, just backend)

It actually took me actual days to figure out how to simply upload a signed post request to Amazon using shrine and a rest client. Now, you may know.

Learn More 11 0Feb 26 '19

How to REALLY set up a React Native environment on Mac

A quick, no-nonsense way to set up a React Native environment without using expo

Learn More 44 21Aug 9 '18

Circle CI Nightly Builds and Github PRs with AWS Lambda Triggers

Using AWS Lambda, let's do a beginning-to-end nightly build tutorial.

Learn More 37 0Apr 23 '18

Enhanced Active Admin - Audio and Image Previews

Let's create an audio player and image previewer in active admin!

Learn More 6 1Jun 4 '17

Serverless Backends with AWS Cloud: Cloudfront and WAF

Let's put some protection on the api we've built so far

Learn More 22 2Apr 24 '17

Serverless Backends With AWS Cloud: Twitter Sessions

We'll use DynamoDB, Lambda, and the API Gateway to create sessions to store our twitter info!

Learn More 8 0Apr 24 '17

Serverless Backends With AWS Cloud: API Gateway And You

Time to hook up our lambdas to the web at large

Learn More 18 0Apr 24 '17

Serverless Backends With AWS Cloud: Installs

Install the tools we need to write the code we want. Part of a series of blog posts on AWS lambda and serverless architecture.

Learn More 3 0Apr 24 '17

Serverless Backends With AWS Cloud: Twitter Complete

Time to finish up the meat of our API Gateway and Twitter project!

Learn More 1 0Apr 24 '17

Serverless Backends with AWS Cloud: Data Pipeline and S3

Let's get that data from the cloud to our computer!

Learn More 16 0Apr 24 '17

Serverless Backends with AWS Cloud: Sending tweets and collecting emails

We're going to send some tweets and decrypt some emails from our local dev environment. Let's get to it!

Learn More 6 0Apr 24 '17

Serverless Backends With AWS Cloud: Email Lambda and DynamoDB

Let's make some Lambda and email magic happen! AWS Serverless technologies

Learn More 6 2Apr 24 '17

Serverless Backends With AWS Cloud: Twitter and Email Campaigns

Step through a practical, production-level tutorial using AWS serverless technologies (DynamoDB, Cloudfront, Lambda, API Gateway, etc.) to create a twitter and email campaign!

Learn More 11 9Apr 24 '17