It's 2024 and we have tools like ffmpeg, imagemagick and GPT readily available. With them, it's easy to...
If you want to system-wide disable the microphone of your external webcam in PulseAudio use the following one-liners...
A common cause of non-accessible web pages are elements that were made interactive via JavaScript but cannot be focused...
I recently built a screen with a very high and wide table in the center. This posed some challenges:
The Web Animations API has great browser support, and you should be using it to animate DOM elements from JavaScript...
All browsers implement an event named beforeunload. It is fired when the active window is closed and can be used...
I recently noticed a new kind of flaky tests on the slow free tier GitHub Action runners: Integration tests were...
Any form fields where users enter numbers should be an . Numeric inputs have several benefits over : On mobile or tablet...
tl;dr We recommend configuring Selenium's unhandled prompt behavior to { default: 'ignore' }. When running tests in a real browser...
A Rails script lives in lib/scripts and is run with bin/rails runner lib/scripts/.... They are a simple tool to perform...
Tested on Ubunut 22.04 1. Opener script Create a file ~/.local/bin/coverage_zip_opener with: #!/bin/bash tmp_folder="/tmp/coverage-report-opener" if [ -z "$1" ]
Today I learned that you can animate HTML elements using the Web Animation API's method .animate(keyframes, options) (which...
Here are some hints on best practices to maintain your tasks in larger projects. Rake Tasks vs. Scripts
Version 3.7.0 broke some things in complex forms. Sorry for that. Concurrent user input is hard. 3.7.1 This change fixes...
You can use the config.x configuration in combination with config_for to configure global settings for your Rails 4.2+ application...
A list of clever debugging tricks. TOC: Advanced Conditional Breakpoints monitor() class Calls Call and Debug a Function Pause Execution...
The linked article suggests an interesting way to speed up tests of Rails + Postgres apps: PostgreSQL allows the creation of...
Getting an entire test suite green can be a tedious task which involves frequent switches between the CLI that is...
In the Gitlab settings the flag Auto-cancel redundant pipelines is enabled by default. This auto-cancels pipelines with jobs...
A general overview about why and how we migrate can be found under Migrating from Elasticsearch to Opensearch
In Capistrano 3, your Capfile requires 'capistrano/rails/migrations', which brings two Capistrano tasks: deploy:migrate and deploy:migrating. The former checks...
#pluck is commonly used as a performant way to retain single database values from an ActiveRecord::Relation Book.pluck(:title, :price...
Added: State machine can now use the :prefix-option to avoid name collision if you define multiple state machines on...
Getting CSS (and JS) live reloading to work in a esbuild / Rails project is a bit of a hassle, but...