Frontend performance and user experience are orthogonal to feature development. If care is not taken, adding features usually degrades frontend...
Unpoly 3.11.0 is a big release, shipping many features and quality-of-life improvements requested by the community. Highlights include...
If you want to build a small CLI application, that supports more advanced inputs than gets, I recommend using the...
The DB schema is the most important source of truth for your application and should be very self-explanatory. If...
We usually ship applications that self-host webfonts to comply with GDPR. Many popular web fonts are available as NPM...
Even if you don't make any beginner mistakes like N+1 queries or missing DB indices, some requests can...
If you need dummy data to play around with in development, it's often faster to reuse your existing factories...
Use these snippets when you want to measure yourself. Currently available: Core Web Vitals Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) Largest Contentful...
Say you wrap your index view in a form to apply different filters like pagination or a search query. On...
When you want to filter records in a model where a string column roughly matches a given term, you can...
You can check the maximum client Redis database size in Sidekiq with this command. Sidekiq.redis { |redis| puts redis.info.fetch('maxmemory_human...
In Rails, the implicit_order_column (added in Rails 6) is a configuration option that helps you define the default...
Why Rails has multiple schema formats When you run migrations, Rails will write your current database schema into db/schema.rb. This...
Here is a workaround for when you want to use text-wrap: balance but must also render nicely for browsers...
DirectUpload allows you to upload files to your file storage without having to wait for the form to submit. It...
ActiveStorage does not provide any built-in way of implementing authentication for the available DirectUpload endpoint in Rails. When using...
PostgreSQL can cosplay as a full-text search engine. It doesn't have the features or fidelity of ElasticSearch or...
Given there is a user with an attachable avatar: class User < ApplicationRecord has_one_attached :avatar end
Given there is a user with an attachable avatar: class User < ApplicationRecord has_one_attached :avatar end
The key to unlocking the full potential of LLMs in coding lies in crafting precise prompts. The main challenge is...
Here is a bash script that I use to auto-configure displays on Ubuntu 24.04 with Xorg. Background
When debugging slow SQL queries, it’s helpful to understand the database engine's query plan. Whenever you execute a...
Rails wraps your parameters into an interface called StrongParameters. In most cases, your form submits your data in a nested...
The new params.expect method in Rails 8 improves parameter filtering, addressing issues with malformed input and enhancing security. It provides...