I recently ported the Jammed Rails app to Cloudflare, and noticed that the ActiveStorage assets were not being cached properly. I did some digging, and found this to be because Cloudflare issues BY...

A recent HN discussion got me thinking - why don’t I try and run my own email infrastructure? Some of the main reasons I hadn’t previously tried might come naturally: Email servers are a pain t...

We use the gem rspec-sitemap-matchers to validate and parse some sitemap files, but it can’t validate against the sitemap standard XSD, so here’s the code snippet. ./spec/support/matchers/valid_si...

I’ve written a Git Workshop site That is all. peace

At work I’ve been recently exposed to a large and complicated React application written in ES6. Of all the refactoring I’ve been undertaking, I have noticed that there was not much defensiveness bu...

We often get to a point where we have billions of local git repositories that have been merged already, or abandoned - it’s often difficult to see the wood from the trees. Prune remote tracking ...

Have you thought about what makes a good programmer? I mean have you sat down and thought hard about what it means? Of all the programmers you’ve met in your (maybe long) career, which ones were ‘...

Adapted from a technical talk I gave at Frontend York about using the Google Maps JS badly on a website, the technical debt that can be accrued, and a few different modern techniques to use it well...