An introduction to mangling When you minify ("compress", "optimize") your JavaScript for production, the names of your functions and variables...

In CI test runs I noticed that string sorting order changed after switching from a debian-based PostgreSQL docker image...

You can tell npm to install a package globally with npm -g install @puppeteer/browsers. However, it seems that its not...

Rails offers several methods to manage three types of different cookies along with a session storage for cookies. These...

If you want to collapse/expand elements with dynamic content (and thus unknown height), you can not transition between height: 0...

Note: You won't need this for single lines of text. In this case it is better to just use...

Sometimes you'll find yourself with a set of tasks that require similar code for different models. For example, if...

When you write your next CarrierWave uploader, consider processing your images with libvips instead of ImageMagick. Reasons for libvips

Using querySelector or querySelectorAll in JavaScript, you can easily find descendants of a node that match a given selector.

So you have a heading that is just barely wider than the container it should fit into, and it wraps...

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We have a long-standing checklist for merge requests. However, it hardly matches the intricate requirements for design. This checklist...

TL;DR Still has caveats. Code splitting is a feature of JavaScript bundlers that can keep huge libraries out of...

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As we are slowly switching from Cucumber scenarios to RSpec feature specs, you might be tempted to write assertions like...

I recently noticed that better_errors allows you to to open files from within your favorite editor. However it was...

Debugging your integration tests, that run a headless Chrome inside a docker image, is tricky. In many cases you can...

Within Capybara you most certainly use the #check- and #uncheck-method to (un)check checkboxes. But there's one problem...

Looking at the source code of the validates_numericality_of validator, it becomes clear that it converts the attribute in...

When you allow file uploads in your app, a user might upload content that hurts other users. Our primary concern...

Every Rails response has a default ETag header. In theory this would enable caching for multiple requests to the same...

tl;dr Individual transform properties are great because they allow you to write more readable and maintainable CSS, especially when...

You have an async function that rejects: async function failingFunction() { throw new Error("Something went wrong") } When you call that...

Sidekiq 7 adds a new feature called capsules. Use cases: a chrome queue limited to 1 for e.g. PDF processing...

If you want to to create maps within SASS/SCSS-files, it normally works like this: $some-map: (key1: value1, key2: value2...

To navigate between test and test subject Rubymine requires you to set the test root sources as Test Sources Root...