Ana's Dev Scribbles

Welcome to my dev blog. You'll find a mix of topics here...DevOps, backend, frontend, mobile, macOS and Linux tips, and whatever else I happen to be exploring at the time. Subscribe for new articles, and check out my latest tutorials on YouTube.

My Apps

Apps I designed, developed, and shipped from idea to store.

ListDuo

Shared grocery list

Cookmarks

Recipe bookmark manager

Hexagram Dreams

I Ching journal

Dreamiary

Dream journal

Cikla

Local produce calendar

Private Branch in a public GitHub repository

GitHub doesn't support private branches in public repositories. You can't even fork a public repository and make it private. My use case: I create tutorial content and I sometimes complement it with...

Sep 12, 2025

2 min read

Increase App visibility with Smart Banners

Did you hear about smart banners? Smart banners are ios native banners. They show up when user navigates to a page on Safari, from a real iOS device, that has this meta tag: <meta name=...

Sep 11, 2025

2 min read

Add Google Login to NestJS Swagger UI

I have a NestJS server that uses firebase auth and a swagger ui for the playground. All of my routes request authorization, and normally I'd get a jwt token outside of ui, for example...

Sep 09, 2025

1 min read

Screen Share MacOS to Windows

For my youtube tutorials, I've lately been VNC-ing from MacOS to my Windows machine. It's because of laziness. All of my recording and video editing setup is on Windows. Then again, it&...

Sep 04, 2025

4 min read

Server-side push notifications with NestJS and Firebase

This is part two of push notifications series with Firebase. In part one, I showed how to enable push notifications in expo, and verify the setup. That part was mainly about getting the configuration right. In...

Aug 26, 2025

3 min read

Running Local GitHub Actions with Nektos Act

If you're managing GitHub actions, you might want to try nektos act. It will make your development faster and you don't need to use up GitHub CI minutes. I cringe when I...

Ana's Dev Scribbles

My Apps

ListDuo

Cookmarks

Hexagram Dreams

Dreamiary

Cikla

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