Latest Thoughts

A running stream of writing and Letterboxd notes, ordered by most recent

Wicked: For Good (2025)

Dec 4, 2025

Letterboxd Review

Largely a snooze fest compared to part one. Really weird pacing issues, hard to track timeline, and no songs that reach the heights of 'Defying Gravity' and 'Popular'. Meh.

★★½

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Bugonia (2025)

Dec 4, 2025

Letterboxd Review

This one is gonna stick with me for a while. What a blast.

★★★★½

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Nobody 2 (2025)

Nov 7, 2025

Letterboxd Review

Stupider than the first one. But, still a fun action movie. Just shut your brain off and don’t expect anything other than cool action shots.

★★★

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Short-circuit Evaluation in React

Apr 23, 2025

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Inline conditional rendering in React–but the gotchas!

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API Gateway - Mapping Templates with Serverless

Jul 19, 2020

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Let's have a chat about AppSync VTL Mapping Templates 🗺

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Learnings from deploying AppSync and Lambdas using Serverless

Jul 9, 2019

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Let's look at Serverless and deploying AppSync using Lambdas as data sources!

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Boolean Variables For Clean Conditionals

May 30, 2019

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A quick tip to cleanup some of your code 🧹

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