Jonathan Yeong articles - 48 total
Setting up dev containers in Rails
Development containers, aka dev containers, have been around since 2019. Made by Microsoft, they...
Dynamic Nested Forms with Rails and Stimulus
I've been away from Ruby on Rails for a couple of years. And in that time, Rails introduced Hotwire,...
Tools I use daily as a solo dev
All the tools that I use on a daily basis as a solo dev
Slow productivity framework
Sharing my journey from toxic productivity to embracing the Slow Productivity framework
Advice for Effective Developers
Syntax FM released a podcast episode 11 habits of highly effective developers yesterday, it's filled...
Making a custom kebab case method for pretty URLs
Recently, I was working on a Rails app where I wanted to make some pretty URLs for it. I have a route...
What I missed about Ruby
I'm back in Ruby on Rails land after two years using only Node/TS. And I'm thrilled to be back! I...
Adding Topics (aka tags) in Astro
This month's Virtual Coffee challenge is Build in Public. And I wanted to kick things off with some...
The Art of Determining the Right Amount of Testing
What is the right amount of testing? Over the years my answer to this question has changed...
Developer productivity with Github Codespaces
During my time at Shopify, I had the opportunity to work with a cloud development environment - and I...
The Tale of the Whitespace
Can you tell the difference between " " and " "? I certainly can't. But the computer can. "...
Deploying an Elixir app
I'm amazed by all the ways we can deploy an Elixir app. It's a little overwhelming (see: analysis par...
What I learned from my first screencast
I recently recorded my first screencast and, wow, I have a lot of things to improve on. The video its...
How to make your cards pop!
In this tutorial, I want to show you how to make your cards pop out on hover using only CSS. This...
A guide to the Javascript tools ecosystem
I'm relatively new to the Javascript (JS) tooling ecosystem and it's... overwhelming. There seem to...
Creating a Featured Posts collection in 11ty
A small snippet of code showing how to create a featured posts collection
2020 Year End Review
It's felt like March for months now, but 2020 is finally coming to a close! Thank you Time Lord for...
7 tips to help you ace your first technical interview
As an interviewer, one of my favorite interviews was one where the candidate didn't finish the...
Hacktoberfest 2020 Recap
Hacktoberfest is done and dusted and I wanted to do a quick recap on my experience. Reflecting on...
Elixir 1.11 released
Elixir 1.11 has just been released with a variety of improvements
My first 3 months with Elixir
I've been learning Elixir as a side project for the past few months. And I wanted to share my process...
Lessons from my first conference talk
Elixir conference happened earlier this month, and like all conferences this year, it was virtual. I...
VueJS 3.0 released
VueJS 3.0 has been released
Excerpts with Eleventy
I 100% struggled with getting excerpts in Eleventy (11ty). It seems so simple, but I couldn’t figure...
Using Github and Notion to organise side projects
A while ago I posted a question on dev.to asking how people stay motivated with their side projects....
Twitter API v2 just launched
Twitter API v2 has just launched, and it's a complete rewrite.
What brings my joy as a developer
I’ve been thinking about joy lately. Which seems like a sad sentence to write. But I promise it’s not...
Tips for developers starting out with web design
I’ve always had this dream of being the fullest, full stack developer. I would take an idea, design...
Git 2.28 brings default branch option
New update with Git provides option to set default branch
How to setup CI with Phoenix & Github Actions
Continuous Integration (CI) is the act of automating the build and testing of your code when it’s...