Script up your projects
Max
Level up your project automation with scripts for smoother onboarding and faster context-switching.
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Prepending Modules to the Rescue
Max
Utilizing Ruby's Module prepend functionality to safely integrate with gems overriding setter methods.
Read onImproving callable service objects with private constructors in Ruby
Max
Privatizing the constructor methods of callable services in Ruby on Rails for cleaner APIs and tests.
Read onFolding sections of Markdown in Vim
Max
How to fold sections of Markdown in Vim for a better overview of the structure of a text
Read onA note on commit messages
Max
A celebration of Git commit messages and a love letter to them.
Read onUnser neues Projekt: HPI Schul Could
Dani
Digitales Lernen in Zeiten der Pandemie - so unterstützen wir das HPI bei der Weiterentwicklung ihrer Schul-Cloud
Read onChromicPDF: Benchmarks
Malte
Backing up claims with numbers. How a background Chrome process outperforms spawning new processes.
Read onChromicPDF: Generating PDF/A files with Chrome and Elixir
Malte
Announcing ChromicPDF, a fast and convenient Chrome-based HTML-to-PDF converter, written in Elixir.
Read onShifting to remote work overnight
Dani
Our approach and first experiences on how to shift work to remote in times of corona
Read onIntroducing SSHKit
Paul
An Elixir toolkit for performing tasks on one or more servers, built on top of Erlang’s SSH application.
Read onTesting Phoenix LiveView hooks with Jest
Andi
How to write a small helper function to test your LiveView hooks .
Read onA Caching Journey
Max
How to take back control over caching with Rails’ Active Storage and Amazon S3.
Read onChange request size
Lars
Code reviews are an important building block of modern software development. But how to keep them manageably small?
Read onShared URLs in docker
Paul
How to get URLs valid inside and outside of a docker-compose network
Read onTypescript - First impressions
Lars
Recently, type systems in JavaScript have also reached the react community. So, with a new project, we took the plunge.
Read onResolving the store api dependency
Lars
A neat small pattern that maintains an auth token in the store, but still makes it accessible to the API layer.
Read onDecoding Phoenix Session Cookies
Tessi
We investigate how the phoenix web framework encodes its session cookies. We find out how to read the content of these encoded cookies and see how guardian stores authentication information in cookies.
Read onArbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability in Simple Form CVE-2019-16676
Tessi
We discovered a security vulnerability in the simple_form ruby gem. CVE-2019-16676
Read onTIL: How to squeeze out every last drop of time-to-first render performance
Chris
Today we learned another aspect that is important in "time-to-first render" performance: TCP packet size.
Read onTIL: Can I email
Chris
Today we learned about caniemail.com - a service which helps in deciding which features are supported widely in email clients
Read onTIL: Show Intent to add a File in git
Chris
Today we learned how to tell git early that we want to add a file without staging its content
Read onTIL: Force with lease
Darren
Sometimes you just have to `git push --force`, but it’s dangerous in some situations. Better use `git push --force-with-lease`
Read onStreams are my Reality
Tessi
Many apps offer their users CSV downloads. We present a way to stream custom CSV/JSON data directly from the database to users in Rails.
Read onCSS Variables and SASS
Tessi
Today we had a debugging session with SASS and CSS variables and learned how to make both play nicely together.
Read onjRubyConf.eu and eurucamp 2015
Bodo
Sadly jRubyConf.eu and eurucamp 2015 are over and here we write what you missed :)
Read onReact Berlin April
Bodo
React Usergroup
Read onRuby Usergroup February
Bodo
Ruby Usergroup
Read onThanks, 2014
Bodo
A short recap of 2014 at bitcrowd
Read onMTR
Bodo
In wich we show a small network analyzer you should not live without.
Read onCharity Coding
Bodo
We did a charity hackday. And it was awesome.
Read onWhy we code
Bodo
What is so appealing about typing colored text into some editor window? Let's try metaphors.
Read onHints for your first live coding talk
Rin
Some tips on how to prepare and give a live coding talk
Read oneurucamp
Rin
Thanks eurucamp!
Read onRUG::B July 2014
Bodo
Rin’s and Bodo’s talks on the July RUG::B
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