I make things that run on the web (mostly).
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Big tech is in focus and being held somewhat responsible for fighting misinformation. But what about smaller platforms? And how can big tech help? (1230)
My answer to an Ask HN. TL;DR: For money. (66)
Looking back at one year of more "serious" blogging (1039)
At times it's more readable to use the plural of a model instead of singular. For instance Products.for_indexing instead of Product.for_indexing. This can be accomplished through a simple initializer that creates the plural model automatically.
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My answer to an Ask HN. Use the db-updates-as-code for your framework, make the system fudgeable and have an audit log. (118)
A summary of other machine-readable codes and their purposes (1091)
Similar to the actor model pattern, the functional model pattern creates multiple models that operate on the same table. But instead of focusing on the user type that primarily accesses it, it focuses on the functionality required. It works well for different stages of a base model. (685)
A brilliant technique to (almost) determine a user's OS by testing whether CSS has OS-specific built-in font families. (331)
A way to calculate the "negative" of a string to be able to sort an array of objects in alphabetic order of one field but reverse alphabetic order of another. (372)
A collection of lessons based on my experience in Supplybunny (202)
When software is polite, when a link is needlessly small and when the best and brightest have errors in prod. (205)
They give the impression of authenticity, but the current implementations are bad. (1238)
TL;DR You aren't, but spam is real, and a good alternative doesn't exist at the moment. (848)
A provider that has no comparable competition is the perfect example of why competition is not only good but necessary. (663)
An improvement over using `jekyll-pdf` or `wkhtmltopdf` (637)
Hijacking blocking notifications and DNS unresolved errors (57)
Some emojis that (un)fortunately didn't make the cut. (219)
While Stack Overflow does cover the most commonly encountered issues, particularly for beginners, there is still a lot of value in technical blogging for solutions that are the result of experience. (965)
General issues that have made me, and others like me, host or build my own solutions instead of paying for an existing service. (526)
Cubitts, a glasses retailer, announced that they’re going to be using iPhone’s camera to scan faces to assist in buying glasses. I’m interested of the privacy implications of th... (1709)
Questions answered while iterating the design of a single input field. (1517)
It immediately makes your article seem like click-bait. (Also, I really dislike it.) (70)
Otherwise it skews your stats. And while you're at it remove `fbclid` from query parameters. (101)
Github has automatically generated social media images for each repository. Here is how to do the same think for Jekyll posts. (1407)
Thinking through working remotely to be able to facilitate it better in future. (2445)