Full-stack engineer helping teams actually work with AI agents. Stockholm.https://burman.dev/https://burman.dev/writing/battling-the-white-screen-of-death-grumbling-over-the-web-version-of-microsoft-teams/https://burman.dev/writing/battling-the-white-screen-of-death-grumbling-over-the-web-version-of-microsoft-teams/Lost in Translation: The Microsoft Teams Blues # You know how it goes, we’re just trying to get through our day, checking off tasks, chasing deadlines, and then bam! Suddenly, we’re stuck dealing with the digital equivalent of molasses – the web version of Microsoft Teams. Installing desktop applications can open up potential security vulnerabilities, making it a no-go zone for companies with strict security policies. With applications running on local machines, there’s a risk of unauthorized access, data leakage, or even malware infiltration if the device is compromised.Thu, 25 May 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://burman.dev/writing/building-my-workout-tracker-using-chatgpt-and-swiftui/https://burman.dev/writing/building-my-workout-tracker-using-chatgpt-and-swiftui/Discover how I finally got started with building my own workout tracker with the help of GPT-4 and SwiftUI. In this blog post, we’ll take you through my “adventure”, showing you how I teamed up with GPT-4 to make a workout tracker app. If you’re a developer keen on growing your skillset or just curious about the possibilities of AI-assisted development & learning, this article’s for you. Heres a quick demo of what I built.Sat, 25 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://burman.dev/writing/is-web3-really-the-answer-to-all-our-problems/https://burman.dev/writing/is-web3-really-the-answer-to-all-our-problems/The simple answer is that it probably isn’t, it might solve some problems, but the important thing to figure out; what are the key things Blockchain & Crypto enable us to do that we can’t already do today? I’ve always felt that Blockchain is something that possibly could solve some issues that we have today, to be honest though, I never took the time to dig into the details and learn more, I’m not a subject-matter expert by any means!Sun, 13 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://burman.dev/writing/dead-simple-cicd-with-github-actions/https://burman.dev/writing/dead-simple-cicd-with-github-actions/At the end of this post you will have configured a dead simple CI/CD workflow that can be used to deploy a Go app (or any other app for that matter), it shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes for you to set things up! The setup - infrastructure and code # I have this little Go service that concurrently scrapes different websites, performs some business logic and then persist the results in a Firestore.Sun, 13 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://burman.dev/writing/django-with-sqlite3-made-durable-with-litestream-and-caddy/https://burman.dev/writing/django-with-sqlite3-made-durable-with-litestream-and-caddy/Lower your database costs to close to nothing # On the morning of January 1st I stumbled upon this tweet from Tobi, the founder of Shopify where he mentioned running Ruby on rails apps using SQLite3 made durable using Litestream. rails7, sqlite3, and litestream are awesome together. i switched all my mini webapps to it. simplest production setup i've ever seen. this docker file is all you need to take a rails app to production: https://t.Sun, 02 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://burman.dev/writing/ted-lasso-isms/https://burman.dev/writing/ted-lasso-isms/Probably the best show in the world # Or at least its the show with some of the best quotes! It was a Friday evening, the kids had gone to bed and I was sitting in my couch watching a Ted Lasso episode or two when it hit me, I want to get a daily dose of Ted Lasso quotes! I started searching for a place that could provide me with this but all websites I found were either ugly, full of ads or made it difficult in one way or another to read the quotes…Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://burman.dev/writing/create-a-shopify-backend-service-in-python-flask/https://burman.dev/writing/create-a-shopify-backend-service-in-python-flask/Building a Shopify App # So you decided to create an app for Shopify and launch it on their app store - that’s so exciting! I’m sure that this guide will help you get up and running quickly and at the same time give you a foundation that you can scale. I’m sure you have already seen it, that Shopify offers some really nice tooling to spin up the backend for your next Shopify app, but it only works it’s magic for NodeJS and Ruby, so if you are like me and are more into Python, then you have to do it all yourself.Mon, 09 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://burman.dev/writing/shopify-python-backend-code-structure/https://burman.dev/writing/shopify-python-backend-code-structure/This post shows you a Model View Controller Service approach to structure a python backend service for a Shopify app. This post builds upon How to build a Shopify app powered by a Python backend service so head over and read it to get some more context, or not, it’s all up to you :) Structuring your python services using the model view controller service pattern # Let’s walk through a Python backend service that is used to power a Shopify app.Sun, 08 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://burman.dev/writing/knock-knock-who-is-there/https://burman.dev/writing/knock-knock-who-is-there/Captain who? Shopify-Captain-Hook, I have a delivery for you. I just had a long day of meetings, the kids have gone to bed and I finally got to sit down and do some coding. Thats when I saw something that put a huge smile on my face! I was putting together a service written in Go that would receive Shopify webhook notifications, validate and send them to a marketing automation application.Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT