It is finally in a state that is usable and presentable, I’ve been working on and off in my spare time since the end of summer last year. I wanted to learn and experience the benefits of using a serverless platform. The simplest way to start that journey was with Chalice, a ready made framework to develop for AWS Lambda.

The project that I’ve wanted to reboot was my bookmarking website bkmrkd.it which I developed some time ago using the PHP Laravel framework but never quite finished it. It was usable for me but I never completed user registration and other features that were still on the todo list.

The current release is working, but not completely finished or polished. All the information is there and the basics work, you can register and add, edit and delete bookmarks with tags. It is even possible to import bookmark files from your browser to give you a head start. There might be some minor bugs, I’m still testing and debugging but it is good enough to release it publicly.

Still to do:

• export functionality (will time out because of the time limit for lambda functions, need to implement a background process for this)
• deleting user accounts (same problem, time limit if you have a large amount of bookmarks)