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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! 馃コ And yeah, that's way more than 100 days 馃檭 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...
Stimulus is a JavaScript framework developed by a team at Basecamp, and it aims to augment your existing HTML so things work without too much "connecting" code. Contrary to other frameworks, Stimulus doesn't take over your front-end, so you can add i...
One of the most precious things in this modern world is data, our own personal data. With data, companies can persuade us to do, buy, like, and do whatever fits their interests- and most of the time those interests not really match ours. I'm confide...
The problem Many of our web app views/pages, among other features, consist of a list of entries from a database table. For example, you can go to /customer/list and get a list and count of your customers. This is fairly common for MVC apps like ours....