Author: jem473

  • Automatically Converting FLAC Files to MP3 With AWS Lambda and Python

    Wanting to get some practice in with S3 Event Notifications and Lambda recently, I decided to create a setup to convert files from FLAC to MP3. I’ll share my thoughts and a basic tutorial here. Which Conversion Software? My initial thought was to utilize the Amazon Elastic Transcoder service to convert the FLAC files; however,…

  • How To Use The AWS CLI From iOS

    With increasingly powerful iPhone and iPad hardware, iOS (and iPadOS) has become an increasingly viable platform for light software development and administration tasks. While software is still a limiting factor, some apps that have been recently released expand the capabilities of these devices considerably. The a-Shell app allows for a relatively limited but still powerful…