I've been wanting to learn Rails since ages ago, but, you know, life was getting in the way (or me, rather). A couple of weeks ago I decided to start a side-project related to another side-project. Sounds like an entry for a GitHub Graveyard, I know....
Sometimes we only need a font for a couple of words, like a logo or slogan. Why do we download the whole font file if we only need a few letters? In this post, I'll show you how you can reduce your font file size by more than 80%. This size reduction...
Queues are a natural phenomenon in everyday life. You queue to buy food, to pay in the supermarket, or to get on a plane. But queues are also used in software to handle heavy processes. A queue can help devs like me and you store a request for later ...
Software development is hard. Time zones are hard. Dealing with time zones in software development? Yeah, harder. Here are 4 places where time zones might differ; and 4 personal bug stories for each case. I'll be referring to the same app for each s...
I started the #100DaysOfCode challenge on March 21st and finished it today, August 7th. FINALLY! 🥳 And yeah, that's way more than 100 days 🙃 For those who don't know, the #100DaysOfCode challenge consists of coding at least one hour every day for t...
If you are an Elastic Beanstalk (EB) user, you are probably aware of a frequently requested feature that was released on July 25, 2018: To ignore application 4xx errors when determining your environment's health. It's was a new EB health rule that ig...
