Posts tagged with n

Celebrating 10 years with Ruby

This year marks my 10:th year programming Ruby professionally. As the local Ruby community seems to have disappeared into the abyss, I\'m writing this to remind myself why Ruby is great.

2021 Year Recap

Another year passed by. 2021 was a year of caotic calm.

A command palette for the web

I'm building an Open Source command palette that works on any website or web app.

Archiving a Wordpress Site

The smartest way to archive all content and assets from a Wordpress site.

Autocompiling CoffeeScript on Save in VIM

Compiling CoffeeScript no more. Autocompile when saving using VIM instead!

How to Become an Efficient Programmer

7 things to make sure to do to become an efficient programmer

Nifty bash alias to launch BrowserStack tunnel

A smart shortcut for launching BrowserStack to test local sites.

5 years of learnings building Beatly

After five years building Beatly from the ground up, I'm documenting the biggest learnings.

Ranking Top 10 User Session Replay Tools

My conclusion on which session replay tool you should use when recording and watching user actions and mouse movements on your site, is simply one that is easy to integrate and really accurate.

Continuation

Why and how to proceed with your idea

File Type Icons for Links with CSS

A framework to use with classes for icons

Custom jQuery selectors

Why and how to write custom jQuery selectors to speed up development

Decision Making

Making important decisions can sometimes stop me from moving forward, making me procrastinate. This is how I handle big decisions.

Deploy your Jekyll Site Directly from TextMate

A really easy way to automate the deployment of your Jekyll site

Development Environments - Optimizing for Developer Happiness

What is the ultimate setup for efficient web development? Is it for you to decide at your workplace?

Dreaming

Waking up one day realising I'm living in the middle of Chamonix, reflecting on whether this is a dream or actual reality.

Learnings transitioning from CTO to CEO

Switching roles can be quite challenging. This is my learnings from stepping up as a CEO of an early stage startup.

Future of influence in Almedalen and on IAB Podcast

I participated in a panel in Almedalen to talk about the future of influence and what role today's influencers are playing.

Git Submodule Guide

A crash course in Git Submodules. Learn how and when to use submodules in your git project.

The House

2020 has been a crazy year. The pandemic hit us, I switched jobs and now we are moving.

How to solve "Uncaught TypeError: Illegal constructor"

Getting the Illegal constructor error when using a class that inherits from HTMLElement is common. This is how you solve it.

What makes a good Web API?

What does a really good RESTful API look like? These are some of the things that make an API really good.

Making web UI's mouseless

The web needs more keyboard based apps and websites. This is the reasoning behind creating Hotlight Command Palette.

Manifesto

Documentation takes you further, this is my new manifesto.

Minimal Rake Deploy Task

Using Capistrano to deploy is sometimes overkill. This is a minimal way to deploy any web app using git and rake.

Mock window.location in Jest

Overriding the `window.location` object in Jest is not as straight forward as you might think. Here's how to do it without side effects between tests.

Running multiple versions of Node.js

Like Ruby with RVM and rbenv, Node.js has its own version manager called n.

Distribute your Rails App with a One-Click .exe

How to distribute a Ruby or Rails application in an .exe file

One month in Frigiliana

Our family spent one month in Spain and this is what that experience was like.

One Task at a Time - Meet SingleTask

To stay sane during pandemic times, I just had to dust of an old app that I hadn't documented yet.

Product Development with APIs - lecture / workshop at BERGHS School of Communication

I held a lecture at BERGHS School of Communication about using APIs for product development.

Prowl Node.js API

Using Prowl with Node.js to PUSH notifications to phones etc. Free and easy to use!

Your own API based on Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails is a really nice tool for use when building web APIs

Recently learned in VIM-land

Now and then I spend some time in VIM-land. Here are some things I've learned recently.

Releasing Hotlight 0.1.0

What's new in v.0.1.0 of Hotlight, the command palette for web apps.

load vs require in Ruby

The main difference between "load" vs "require" in the Ruby programming language.

Saying No

How to say no to software projects. It took a while to realize that you can actually do that.

Making sense of Site Search Data

Site search is a gold mine to discover needs of your audience. This is an effort to try to make basic sense of the insights from there and to remove the gaps of missing or bad content on your site or e-commerce.

The Internal Startpage

From Startup to Scaleup - Checklist

Scaling up an organization comes with all sorts of challenges. This list helps you become proactive and aware of what to improve in order to scale from start-up to scale-up.

Super Simpler SPAM Protection in Ruby on Rails

The easiest and most efficient way to fight spam with Ruby on Rails.

Svelte vs React - first impressions

React has been my go-to library when doing frontend development. However, there is a new player in town and this is the pros and cons of Svelte vs React.

Tagging version in Git

Using tags to mark versions in your Git repository is a must, especially when publishing your own libraries.

The Nine Month Entrepreneur

How a very good friend of mine became a successful entrepreneur in 9 months

5 Useful Browser Extensions for Web Developers

The most useful Chrome browser extensions for any web developer.

Refreshing vim plugins in 2021

The world of Vim never stops surprising me. There's just so many neat ways of getting around more efficiently.

Using VIM Buffers

Why and how to use VIM buffers to become more efficient.

Using variables in Ruby Regular Expressions

Note to self about variables in regular expressions when using Ruby

Last inspected element in Chrome Dev Tools

Here's an updated list of useful vim commands I tend to fall back to

How to use TypeScript enum value as function parameter

You have to add an extra line to extract the value from enum and use it as in parameter in a function