Get ready for randomness. I share my web dev life and whatever idea that crosses my mind.
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...
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....
If you happen to use Basecamp 3 to manage your projects, you might have noticed a huge outage on November 8th, 2018; it lasted almost 5 hours. The issue was that they failed to use bigint for the primary keys of their tables so they ran out of IDs. T...
What's Amazon S3? Amazon Simple Storage Service, called S3, is an object storage solution to reliably store and retrieve any amount of data. What can it do? It can store your files, build packages, reports, images, and any type of data you can think ...
This post is about a specific problem I encountered where I couldn't make any requests from my Docker container to the outside world. It was my first time working with Jenkins Pipelines and decided to use Docker as my isolation agent. Some facts rela...
I recently came across a bug on our landing page which caused a weird blank space overflow on the right side: I looked for a couple of hours trying to find any CSS spacing causing it, or some wrong element on my HTML, but couldn't find anything out ...
AWS ElasticBeanstalk applications use either an nginx or Apache proxy to relay requests. Using the .ebextensions feature of ElasticBeanstalk we can extend the configuration of these proxies. If you don't know how .ebextensions work you can read more ...
A gated commit, also called a pre-tested commit, is an integration pattern in which a commit is not approved until a set of tests are ran against the code being commited. In other words, the commit does not go through if the test suite fails. Why do...