An exploration in design, development and everything in between
Hookdeck is a fantastic tool that helps you manage and tunnel external webhooks into a local development server, among other things. The Hookdeck-CLI is simple and works pretty well; however, I wanted its integration into our workflow to be more portable for fellow developers on our project. I was trying to avoid having everyone install yet-another-cli-tool.
In my path to learning Elixir, I accepted the challenge and queried a Tribes 2 server. To perform the query fully, it required sending two different packets to the server where the first byte denotes the type of information we're asking in return. The first is called the info packet, which doesn't contain much more than the server name. The second is called the status packet, which contains all the meat and potatoes.
CORS issues are always a treat! Especially when the issue appeared to be random and only affects Chromium-based browsers.
I love DataDog, and I love CloudFlare, and If you're aggressively caching as we do, a good portion of requests won't ever make it to the origin, which is a good thing. However, a downside is that you'll likely miss out on having complete traffic logs. Fortunately, using CloudFlare Workers can help us solve this issue.
My original blog was built with Ghost and hosted on DigitalOcean. And while I enjoyed my time with Ghost, there were a few things I wanted to explore outside its scope, like writing posts with MDX! Mounting React components in blog posts is really cool! While I did manage to work everything out, the migration was not a cakewalk, however. It's 2020, what could go wrong?
Bash stores a history of commands that were previously executed by a user in plain text (.bash_history). As you probably realize, this becomes a security issue when you're running commands that contain sensitive information
With the latest version of MJML, there came a lot of nice features and upgrades. However, prior to version 4, the NPM module didn't include system API calls like fs, which can't be used in a web browser...
Your container is running... but is it working? You should have health checks defined for all your containers. The HEALTHCHECK instruction tells Docker how to test a container to make sure it's working properly.
In your docker-compose file, defining a secret's source and target let you easily rotate your secrets without changing any application code. You need to standardize your naming conventions, however.
In React, passing data from a parent to its child is pretty simple, it can easily trickle down through props. But what about the other way around... without using Flux or PubSub?
Hotel is a simple process manager for developers that allows you to start your apps from a browser and even access them using .localhost domains. It practically works with all servers and even supports https...
So, let's say you have a few hundred ${guid}.zip or other files that uniformly match up to a data source but you need to rename them to something a little more friendly...
The purpose of creating this ToDo app was to get more comfortable with Node and the Adonis framework. This isn't a walk-through on how to create a ToDo App, but rather the bits-and-pieces of Adonis that makeup the app.
Uncover any unnecessary tags generated by the editor. This plugin adds the ability to toggle a trace on common parent block-level elements with an outline and their element name. The purpose for creating this plugin was so that it becomes a little clearer on what my WYSIWYG is doing.
The development of Ghost has been moving pretty fast. My version of Ghost was way out of date and the version of Node I was running wasn't even LTS. My blog was pretty much just left in the dust...
During my adventures in learning React, I came across a particular roadblock with independent component communication. I understand how 'parent-child components' talk. The React doc's explain that pretty well. However, a place that could use an improvement is explaining with examples on how to make independent components communicate.
I created a simple boilerplate for Bootstrap 4's Grid with the awesome GuideGuide plugin in Photoshop.
Earlier today we migrated our dev/staging server from ColdFusion 10 to 11 without using CF's built-in server. We wanted to do this as a side-by-side migration to test and flesh-out the process before we actually made the switch on our production servers. Here's how it went.
A simple approach to start automating with gulp!
Gulp is a robust javascript automation tool that uses a code-over-configuration, streaming build system that's powered by Node.