When you are using the default MIME-Type configuration and your application allows uploading files, it can be a security...

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

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Web forms can be made much more usable with a few HTML attributes. Short summary: type: Tells browsers about the...

When using tmux, selecting and copying multiple lines of text can be a hassle, especially when using splits (highlighting lines...

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

It is possible to manipulate the forwarded ports of an established interactive SSH session. This is done by opening the...

A convenient way to test SNS Subscription Filter Policies is using an email address as the subscription endpoint. However, for...

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The rubocop binary has a few interesting flags: rubocop (using the --parallel default ) scans the current repository for linting issues...

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...

Rack::SteadyETag was a Rack middleware that generates the same default ETag for responses that only differ in XOR-masked...

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

tl;dr asdf allows you to manage multiple runtime versions with a single CLI tool and is backwards compatible by...

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

We recently encountered a problem with GlusterFS (7.x) when an application used the flock syscall on a GlusterFS path...

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tl;dr The strict-dynamic source list keyword allows you to simplify your CSP policy by favoring hashes and nonces...

If your irb or rails console keeps randomly crashing and you can't figure out why then you can try...

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The linked content describes: The different color space of Oklch and RGB/HSL (HDR colors) The advantage of Oklch when you...

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I found the linked article very helpful to refresh my understanding of database indexes. As a small bonus, it includes...

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...

Haml 6 was a major rewrite with performance in mind. To achieve a performance improvement of 1.7x, some design...

Capybara has a variety of finder methods like find_button to help you look up DOM elements. There are also...

Maintaining larger projects makes it more difficult to balance refactoring and upgrade tasks according to its actual value. Consider to...