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I've been working with Ruby on Rails for about 17 months now and I feel I've learned a lot so far but I want to take my knowledge one step further. For this to happen, I'll establish an actionable list of items that I either want to review or learn

Sidekiq workers consume a lot of memory: how can I fix that?

I learned to code in the Javascript stack [1] and am building a Javascript based product [2]. I never questioned this stack: many companies default to it, JS everywhere seems good, and the community is big. But for my new side project I decided to try Rails because despite some...

Why the Ruby philosophy is the exact opposite of other programming languages?

A common critique of Rails is that it encourages a poor separation of concerns. That when things get serious, you need an alternative that brings the missing pieces. We disagree.

Most programmers are familiar with the concept of premature optimization and the reasons why it’s bad. As a reminder, the main reason premature optimization is bad is because it’s an effort to solve problems that probably aren’t real. It’s more economical to wait and observe where the performance bottlenecks are than to try to predict […]

I am a web developer from Germany, mostly working with Ruby on Rails, but also like to do Frontend Javascript with Vue, Svelte, Server-Deployment with Docker, Ansible, Terraform on Hetzner Cloud or build small mobile Apps with Flutter.

Summarizing all the gems shared by our PM team on product strategy and great teamwork.

A comprehensive guide on drag and drop UI/UX design, including pattern UX examples and UI demos.

Nowadays web application security is a crucial and unfortunately sometimes a bit neglected matter. Today, I'll focus on Content Security Policy - a handy mechanism that can protect our app from XSS attacks.

Wrap Third Party APIs in Service Wrappers to Simplify Your Code

Move fast but don’t break things.

This article will teach you how to create drop-down selects with Rails and Hotwire. I want to add country and state to the user. When users select a country, we want to fetch all states from this country and add to the states input-select. Let's sta...

HTML elements receive different types of events, from click, to blur, to scroll, and so on. One behavior these events have in common is Event Bubbling. I'll explain what this behavior means in this article. I also made a video version of this article which you can watch here [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaHZdW02Tg0].

Other languages don't have this

Guide to deploying Rails apps to AWS with Cloud 66. We'll briefly explore PaaS options like Heroku, before moving to a step-by-step guide.

If you've ever wanted to build a web app that you can control with hand gestures as if by magic, this article is for you. With a couple of APIs and some JavaScript, you can build apps that behave like sorcery.

Rspec code to verify that a Ruby Class Method is called from another method, without needing to mock anything.

Developer and interaction designer.

Now that I’ve transitioned from being an IC to being an engineering manager, I’ve found myself becoming a person I never thought I would…

This week’s system design refresher: ByteByteGo talent collective Why PostgreSQL is the most loved database What is a proxy? What is time/clock? Twitter architecture in 2012 ByteByteGo talent collective We are excited to announce the launch of the ByteByteGo talent collective! The collective's members will have exclusive access to opportunities at high-growth startups and world-class companies such as Meta, Stripe, Snowflake, etc.

Date and time validation plugin for ActiveModel and Rails. Supports multiple ORMs and allows custom date/time formats. - GitHub - adzap/validates_timeliness: Date and time validation plugin for Ac...

Adding authentication to your Rails app but don't want to store passwords or rely on third-party OAuth? Let's build a passwordless login system that emails users magic links!

This past weekend on a side project (RelationKit) I implemented a combined mentions feature to let my users do multiple quick actions while writing text with...

Let's build a table editor in a Rails application using ActionText's Trix editor, and use Turbo Frames to customize your table.