Category covering programming languages and practices, sometimes I’ll cover more backend, sometimes frontend…
Introduction I needed a custom solution for loading a native node module in my nextjs project. The module was published with neon-bindings, and none of the below solutions worked for me: It’s not an issue in any of the loaders, or nextjs framework, I just needed to create a custom Read more…
I want to share my thoughts on how difficult it was to build a simple Chrome extension without any prior knowledge of the Chrome extension ecosystem. I built a simple extension on top of React and Material UI that generates a web page summary. The summary contains the total number Read more…
Slugify is an url slug generator, and slug is a part of the URI between 2 slashes: Usually, slugs are made from alphanumeric characters and dash. I rarely see an underscore in URL, but not because it’s forbidden, just that most of us somehow agreed that [a-z0-9\-]+ is best to Read more…
I know how to write macro, what it’s useful for, but can’t seem to define it well when people ask me. Rust book defines it as a way of writing code that writes other code, known as metaprogramming. In Java you would write an annotation and annotation processor, in Scala Read more…
I created a custom Github action that deploys a static website to s3, and I want to point out a few details of my process of building a reusable action. For detailed reference refer to https://docs.github.com/en/actions/creating-actions/about-custom-actions. There are 3 types of custom actions – docker, javascript and composite. For deploying Read more…
Unfortunately S3 static doesn’t offer rewrite of urls, and doesn’t know that /page.html should resolve to /page and vice versa. This solution shows how to host a Nextjs static website on S3 without the html extension. Configure S3 Bucket for static website hosting Programmatic access to S3 bucket Your S3 Read more…
I recently did a switch to monorepo for my React components with Lerna. I was usually against having a monorepo because For example, does your frontend colleague need to know about your backend? Now, that being said, monorepo is convenient because everything is in one place, and other repos can Read more…
I wanted to try creating a desktop app with Rust, and found out there’s Tauri and Yew. Both look cool! Since there was no official documentation on how to configure a Tauri/Yew project, I wanted to post instructions for Linux users. I did run into some specific problems like: My Read more…
Decorator is a neat design pattern which lets you extend the functionality without modifying it. It’s usually also a higher order function = function that takes another function as an argument. I need a way connect to Mongodb In my NextJS project I use mongodb as a persistence layer, and Read more…
I recently found out that npm doesn’t support downloading same scope dependencies from multiple registries. Ideally, I’d like to define multiple registries for a scope. If npm fails to find the package from registry1, then it should try registry2 and so on. I use an @eisberg-labs scope for some private Read more…