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Backoff strategy

I ve never wondered how is it called when you attempt to call a server, and this fails and then you attempt two seconds later and it fails, and then 4 seconds later and then 8 and so on. Clearly it is exponential in nature, but never had much thought of exponential what . Turns out this [ ]

Esnaf

Go an see the product at https://esnaftoys.com/products/nordic-fox-wooden-magnetic-toy-design Nfox_3d_toy

How a bad UI message prevented us from resolving a 5 days feature downtime

This article is about a UI message in our platform that was confusing enough that it prevented us from resolving a 5 days downtime on a feature. We could have resolved it much faster, but because the message was confusing it made things worse. I hope that UI experts and engineers (like us) could benefit [ ]

Rails 7 with bootstrap 5 by cssbundling-rails with dart-sass and jsbundling-rails with esbuild. No webpack and webpacker and a salt of Stimulus

Today I put on my new to Rails hat and I decided to start a new Rails 7 project using the latest two new sharp knives that we have with Rails 7 to get a job done. The Job To Be Done is: Demonstrate Bootstrap 5 examples of a Toast in a Rails 7 project. [ ]

Classic challenge, new tool – addressing browser image caching issues with Hugo fingerprinting

Have you ever been on a support call with a service/vendor and they tell you Please, clear your browser cache! Or you ve been on the development side of a website and you upload a new image on your website only for users to continue reporting that they still see the old image. Then you [ ]

Protected: Be brave, be bold… but not so much – a thing we learned from designing a single page website with a video

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Unsettled: The Future of Apple’s 30% Cut (by Fastspring)

I tried to do a quick summary in our team about what is coming from the Epic vs Apple case. After looking at a few different resources I think the following webinar gives a good understand of what is happening Current status summary There is a new possible Web flow that opens a lot of [ ]

How they tried to compromise our CEO and what a phishing email contains

Are you curious about what is inside those phishing emails and how they try to steal your password? This is the story of what happens when you click on one of the phishing emails that we receive so often. If you ve ever been curious about how these emails work, and how they look, I will [ ]

Migrating to jasmine 2.9.1 from 2.3.4 for teaspoon

We finally decided it is probably time to try to migrate to jasmine 2.9.1 from 2.3.4 There is an error that started occurring randomly and before digging down and investigating it and and the end finding out that it is probably a result of a wrong version, we decided to try to get up to [ ]

Sometimes you need automated test on production

In this article I am making the case that sometimes you just need to run automated tests against the real production and the real systems with real data for real users. The case We have a feature on one of our platforms: User clicks on Export for a record A job is scheduled. It generates [ ]