Forem: Sean Boult

Hide regions and services in the AWS console

Sean Boult — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:26:43 +0000

Tired of scrolling through regions and services you'll never use?

You just want to...

AWS now lets you hide regions and services from your console. Here's how.

Heads up: This is a visual preference, not a security control. Users can still access hidden regions and services directly.

Hide Regions

That region dropdown doesn't need to show every region AWS offers.

Go to Unified Settings → Account settings.
Find Visible Regions.
Deselect the regions you don't use. Keep the ones where you actually run workloads.
Save.

Done. Your region dropdown now only shows what matters.

Hide Services

Same place, different setting.

Go to Unified Settings → Account settings.
Find Visible Services.
Deselect the services you don't need. I'd recommend keeping Billing so you can still manage costs.
Save.

What Happens When You Access Something Hidden?

You'll see a page like this if you navigate to a hidden region/service directly:

And some parts of the console will show a restricted indicator:

Again, nothing is actually blocked. It's just hidden from the default navigation.

Resources

Reading a blog post about blog posts is so meta 😂

Sean Boult — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:26:43 +0000

Beaver-powered databases and ancient AI

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

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Sean Boult — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:52:56 +0000

Every AWS S3 Compatible API Provider EVER

Sean Boult — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:46:29 +0000

You've probably heard of AWS Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), which allows you to store objects in buckets.

The AWS S3 API was the original blob storage interface, and many storage providers and technology companies have reverse-engineered or emulated it to ensure compatibility.

Some notable examples include services like Cloudflare R2 and Backblaze B2, but there are countless others, as you'll see below.

Provider	S3-Compatible Offering
AWS	Amazon S3
Cloudflare	R2
Backblaze	B2 Cloud Storage
Wasabi	Hot Cloud Storage
DigitalOcean	Spaces
Google Cloud	Cloud Storage (XML API)
IBM Cloud	Cloud Object Storage
Oracle	OCI Object Storage
Akamai	Object Storage
Nebius	Object Storage
Alibaba Cloud	Object Storage Service (OSS)
Tencent Cloud	Cloud Object Storage (COS)
Huawei Cloud	Object Storage Service (OBS)
Vultr	Object Storage
Scaleway	Object Storage
Hetzner	Object Storage
OVHcloud	Object Storage
UpCloud	Object Storage
Contabo	Object Storage
Exoscale	Object Storage
Seagate	Lyve Cloud Object Storage
IDrive	e2
CoreWeave	AI Object Storage
Gcore	Gcore Storage
Synology	C2 Object Storage
MEGA	S4 Object Storage
Storj	Cloud Object Storage

This list is certainly not exhaustive, as there are more services I haven't discovered in my research.

If I missed any, leave me a comment so I can update the list! Also, don’t be shy and tell me which ones are your favorite to use.

anyone shipping anything on Sunday?

Sean Boult — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 21:01:16 +0000

Neovim Matching Your System Theme 🌚🌞

Sean Boult — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:00:00 +0000

In this post I'll show you how to get your theme in Neovim to match your system theme.

First you want to install dark-notify, here is how you'd do that with Homebrew.

brew install cormacrelf/tap/dark-notify

Then you can setup the Neovim lazy companion plugin which will watch for changes via the dark-notify CLI.

Replace <lightTheme> and <darkTheme> with your preferred colorschemes (like "catppuccin-latte" and "catppuccin-mocha").

---@module "lazy"
---@type LazySpec
return {
  {
    "cormacrelf/dark-notify",
    config = function()
      require("dark_notify").run({
        schemes = {
          light = { colorscheme = "<lightTheme>" },
          dark = { colorscheme = "<darkTheme>" },
      })
    end,
  },
}

Now you should be able to switch your system theme and it will automagically update your Neovim theme.

You can take a look at my Dotfiles and how I've configured it. If this article helped you out feel free to follow me for more tips and tricks.

Safari & Firefox extensions still break

/ blocks after page load


Sean Boult — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:35:11 +0000



1Password Breaks Syntax Highlighting On The Internet
Sean Boult — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:30:00 +0000
READ FIRST: It has been patched, and the latest official update from the 1Password team



Starting sometime in early December of 2025, a change was rolled out to the 1Password browser extension that began injecting prism.js onto every site and targeting every <code> block it encountered.

The original discovery was made by @saltyaom and shared on Twitter to their disbelief.






  // Detect dark theme
  var iframe = document.getElementById('tweet-2005701290870087817-127');
  if (document.body.className.includes('dark-theme')) {
    iframe.src = "https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=2005701290870087817&theme=dark"
  }







The moment it hit my radar was when @yyx990803 retweeted it, amplifying it to a much larger audience.






  // Detect dark theme
  var iframe = document.getElementById('tweet-2005904473332564339-344');
  if (document.body.className.includes('dark-theme')) {
    iframe.src = "https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=2005904473332564339&theme=dark"
  }







1Password has several forum posts on this topic showing that this bug was introduced to all production users.


Re: 1Password Chrome extension is incorrectly manipulating  blocks

Safari & Firefox extensions still break <pre>/<code> blocks after page load
1Password Chrome extension is incorrectly manipulating  blocks



The biggest question I had was: why are they even injecting Prism.js in the first place?

It turns out this is for a new Labs Snippets feature that allows you to paste snippets from the browser extension. One of the most interesting parts is that it has nothing to do with programming in general and is instead meant for rich text formatting.

Prism.js was targeting every <code> block on any site, ultimately stripping the correct syntax highlighting theme.

The snippets feature itself is actually pretty neat. In this example, it replaces what I type — "sig" — with console.log(67). It’s not clear to me why this requires highlighting <code> blocks on websites, though, since this feature behaves more like TextExpander or macOS text replacements.






  // Detect dark theme
  var iframe = document.getElementById('tweet-2007089632660639822-733');
  if (document.body.className.includes('dark-theme')) {
    iframe.src = "https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=2007089632660639822&theme=dark"
  }







It sucks to have a bug roll out during the holidays when people are on vacation, so I understand the delay in the fix. I’m very excited to read their postmortem to learn how this made it into production and what they plan to do to prevent this from happening again.

I hope you enjoyed this read, and if you’re interested in deep dives like this, please consider following me.


is the timeline still ai slop or no?
Sean Boult — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:01:04 +0000



Bitnami MySQL Docker Image Tags Deleted
Sean Boult — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:35:36 +0000
So Bitnami was acquired by VMware and they did some business shenanigans and then got rid of all the bitnami/mysql tags.

Errors you may have encountered when trying to start your db container.


manifest for bitnami/mysql:latest not found: manifest unknown


or


Unable to find image 'bitnami/mysql:latest' locally


This article should give you some options to get a working docker mysql db.


  
  
  mysql/mysql


You can use the official mysql docker image but it will require you to change a few things.

Docker compose file where you can replace the "mydbname" with something more descriptive for you app.




name: mydbname

services:
  db:
    image: mysql
    restart: always
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: dev
      MYSQL_DATABASE: mydbname
    volumes:
      - mydbname-data:/var/lib/mysql
    ports:
      - 3306:3306
    healthcheck:
      test: ['CMD', 'mysqladmin', 'ping', '-h', 'localhost', '-u', 'root', '-pdev']
      interval: 5s
      timeout: 3s
      retries: 10
volumes:
  mydbname-data:
    driver: local






.env file with a DB url.




DATABASE_URL="mysql://root:dev@localhost/mydbname"







  
  
  bitnamisecure/mariadb


The alternative is use the new bitnamisecure/mariadb but that comes with some risk if they rug pull this image too.

Docker compose file where you can replace the "mydbname" with something more descriptive for you app.




name: mydbname

services:
  db:
    image: bitnamisecure/mariadb:latest
    container_name: mydbname-db
    restart: always
    environment:
      MARIADB_ROOT_USER: dev
      MARIADB_ROOT_PASSWORD: dev
      MARIADB_DATABASE: mydbname
    healthcheck:
      test: ['CMD', 'mysqladmin', 'ping', '-h', 'localhost']
      timeout: 20s
      retries: 10
    volumes:
      - mydbname-data:/bitnami/mysql/data
    ports:
      - 3306:3306
  redis:
    image: 'bitnami/redis:latest'
    container_name: mydbname-redis
    restart: always
    environment:
      - ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=yes
    ports:
      - 6379:6379
volumes:
  mydbname-data:
    driver: local






.env file with a DB url.




DATABASE_URL="mysql://dev:dev@localhost/mydbname"





Dual publish ESM and CJS with tsdown
Sean Boult — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 13:34:31 +0000
There comes a time when you have to dual publish ESM (ECMAScript) and CJS (CommonJS) for your TypeScript projects. This guide should walk you through the steps to get this working properly with tsdown.

NOTE: if you are using tsup there is a codemod provided by tsdown to migrate.


  
  
  tsdown setup


First let's install tsdown with your favorite package manager, in this case I'll be using pnpm.




pnpm i -D tsdown





Now we can create the tsdown.config.ts file that will have our configuration.



import { defineConfig } from "tsdown";

export default defineConfig([
  {
    // NOTE: this is the default but update if your entrypoint differs
    entry: "src/index.ts",
    format: ["esm", "cjs"],
    sourcemap: true,
  }
]);





  
  
  package json setup


It's important to get these right otherwise types will fail to resolve in every scenario.

Add the following to your package.json file.



{
  // ...
  "files": [
    "dist"
  ],
  "main": "./dist/index.cjs",
  "module": "./dist/index.js",
  "types": "./dist/index.d.ts",
  "exports": {
    ".": {
      "import": {
        "types": "./dist/index.d.ts",
        "default": "./dist/index.js"
      },
      "require": {
        "types": "./dist/index.d.cts",
        "default": "./dist/index.cjs"
      }
    }
  }
  // ...
}





  
  
  validation


We can us the are the types wrong CLI to interrogate the output and ensure type resolution is working in all scenarios.



npx -y @arethetypeswrong/cli --pack .





Which should yield something like this if all goes well.



 No problems found 🌟


┌───────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
│                   │ "tsdown-dual-publish-esm-cjs" │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ node10            │ 🟢                            │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ node16 (from CJS) │ 🟢 (CJS)                      │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ node16 (from ESM) │ 🟢 (ESM)                      │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ bundler           │ 🟢                            │
└───────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘





  
  
  Demo


Here is a simple demo I've created to show what we've seen here.



  
    
      
      
        Hacksore
       / 
        tsdown-dual-publish-esm-cjs
      
    
    
      
    
  
  
    


tsdown-dual-publish-esm-cjs


If you want to migrate from tsup this is a repo to follow.

pnpm i
pnpm test

What the ouput of test looks like.

> tsdown
ℹ tsdown v0.14.2 powered by rolldown v1.0.0-beta.34
ℹ Using tsdown config: /Users/hacksore/code/tsdown-dual-publish-esm-cjs/tsdown.config.ts
ℹ entry: src/index.ts
ℹ tsconfig: tsconfig.json
ℹ Build start
ℹ Cleaning 4 files
ℹ [CJS] dist/index.cjs  0.10 kB │ gzip: 0.11 kB
ℹ [CJS] 1 files, total: 0.10 kB
ℹ [CJS] dist/index.d.cts  0.09 kB │ gzip: 0.10 kB
ℹ [CJS] 1 files, total: 0.09 kB
ℹ [ESM] dist/index.js    0.10 kB │ gzip: 0.11 kB
ℹ [ESM] dist/index.d.ts  0.09 kB │ gzip: 0.10 kB
ℹ [ESM] 2 files, total: 0.19 kB
✔ Build complete in 575ms

tsdown-dual-publish-esm-cjs v0.0.0

Build tools:
- typescript@~5.8.3
- tsdown@^0.14.2

 No problems found 🌟


┌───────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
│                   │ "tsdown-dual-publish-esm-cjs" │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ node10            │ 🟢                            │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ node16 (from CJS) │ 🟢 (CJS)                      │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ node16 (from
…

  
  View on GitHub



Vercel Menubar Apps
Sean Boult — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:29:00 +0000
Just a few toolbar apps people have built for vercel.com to track your deployments.


  
  
  deplog


Monitor your Vercel deployments real-time on your Mac—no need to open the web app! With Deplog, all your deployment updates are just one click away, right from your Mac’s menu bar.



Credit: @emredemirbulut


  
  
  buildlog


Vercel Deployments in Menu Bar.



Credit: @JokingRajat


  
  
  vercel-toolbar


A sleek macOS menu bar application for viewing your Vercel deployments in real-time.



Credit: @ryandavogel




Very cool projects from these folks and one day maybe vercel will ship a 1st party one!

If you made it this far you can also see what I wanted to build for github called buildtray.com.

Forem: Sean Boult

Hide regions and services in the AWS console

Hide Regions

Hide Services

What Happens When You Access Something Hidden?

Resources

Reading a blog post about blog posts is so meta 😂

Top 7 Featured DEV Posts of the Week

Every AWS S3 Compatible API Provider EVER

anyone shipping anything on Sunday?

Neovim Matching Your System Theme 🌚🌞

Safari & Firefox extensions still break
/ `blocks after page load`

1Password Breaks Syntax Highlighting On The Internet

is the timeline still ai slop or no?

Bitnami MySQL Docker Image Tags Deleted

mysql/mysql

bitnamisecure/mariadb

Dual publish ESM and CJS with tsdown

tsdown setup

package json setup

validation

Demo

Hacksore / tsdown-dual-publish-esm-cjs

tsdown-dual-publish-esm-cjs

Vercel Menubar Apps

deplog

buildlog

vercel-toolbar