There is a kinda secret, yet well supported CSS feature called currentColor. It's like a special CSS variable that...
TL;DR Append your locale keys with _html to have them marked as html_safe and translate them with = t...
Using the JS fullscreen API is painful because all browers use different methods and events and you need to use...
When your application is running on a multi-server setup, application logs are stored per server (unless you choose a...
By default, Capistrano truncates server responses and places an ellipsis at the end of lines that are longer than your...
When your JavaScript bundle is so massive that you cannot load it all up front, I would recommend to load...
You know that you can use jQuery's text() to get an element's contents without any tags.
For outputting a given String in HTML, you mostly want to replace line breaks with or tags.
Webpacker uses Babel and Webpack to transpile modern JavaScript down to EcmaScript 5. Depending on what browser a project needs...
Lets say we have a user with a contract whereas contract is a mounted carrierwave file. Now we want to...
CSS Flexbox has become extremely popular amongst front-end developers the last couple of years. This isn’t surprising, as...
Form fields can be rendered as noneditable by setting the disabled or the readonly attribute. Be aware of the differences...
When a Rails controller action should handle both HTML and JSON responses, do not use request.xhr? to decide that. Use...
When making requests using curl, no cookies are sent or stored by default. However, you can tell curl to re...
wrap the text with a span use line-height for the spacing between lines ("margin")
When you print (or print preview) and elements are cut off (e.g. after 1st page, or "randomly") you should check...
By default, browsers will not wrap text at syllable boundaries. Text is wrapped at word boundaries only. This card explains...
When writing XLSX files, there are gems like rubyXL or axlsx. While they do offer features like formatting or graphs...
An end-to-end test (E2E test) is a script that remote-controls a web browser with tools like Selenium...
When your public-facing application has a longer downtime for server maintenance or long migrations, it's nice to setup...
Slides for Henning's talk on Sep 21st 2017. Understanding sync vs. async control flow Talking to synchronous (or "blocking...
If you are using PDFKit / wkhtmltopdf, you might as well want to use custom fonts in your stylesheets. Usually this...
Download the dictionary from http://www.winedt.org/dict.html, e.g. http://www.winedt.org/dict/de_neu.zip unzip de_neu.zip mkdir ~/Documents/dic iconv -f UTF-16 -t...
The linked article shows how to exploit websites that include unsanitized user input in their CSS. Although the article often...