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I’m a web developer by day for a large business. Luckily, they are already very well established and they get lots of visits each day. But starting from scratch with promoting my own website has been very daunting, but also very rewarding.
The other week I was lucky enough to get a ticket to Generate Conference by .net Magazine. There were some really interesting talks, some technical, others more inspirational.
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Just a quick message to let you know of a couple of promotions on my books on the Amazon UK kindle store.
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I thought I’d share some learnings about how to host a Next.js site with AWS Elastic Beanstalk. This is a minimum configuration to get a basic site up and running.
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