Robert Rees articles - 41 total
The e-commerce coding challenge vs. the real world
E-commerce is hard, why use it as a coding test?
Typescript tuples aren't tuples
Why Typescript tuples are misleading
Server-side rendered Web Components
Enhance WASM now allows you to render Web Components server side
Why are Web Components interesting?
I've been increasingly interested in Web Components and trying to understand how I can rewrite my...
Make your Faker unit tests run faster with this one weird tip
FakerJS has a bug that is a classic example of over-eager initialisation. Naively importing the...
Validating Dependabot files
Notes on trying to validate Dependabot files
How to use Jekyll's link tag with data values
An overview of how to use the link tag with data-driven values from data files or front matter
Media Queries Level 4
It is now possible to express screen width media selectors using inequality operators, greatly simplifying the syntax and maintainability of the associated code
Programming Languages (March/April 2023)
Notes on learning programming languages for March and April 2023
Using Shortcut as a project management tool
Notes on working with the agile project management tool Shortcut
How to find an SRI hash on jsdelivr
A description of how to find the right integrity hash for a library being served via jsdelivr
Migrating a Python Flask App from Heroku to Fly
This is a description of the process that I've been using to get applications running on Fly with a...
Migrating databases from Heroku to Render
An experience report about migrating data from Heroku to Render's Postgres service
Deploying a basic Python Flask app to Fly
Due to Heroku shutting down their free services I need to find a new home for a number of apps that I...
AlpineJS
I need to code something in a hurry and Alpine came through for me.
Codespaces - first reactions
A few initial thoughts on using Github's new Codespaces
Flask: template context processors
Notes about how and why to use template context processors in Flask
CSS 2021 top tip: Aspect Ratio
Aspect Ratio completely solves a variety of historical problems in a neat and elegant way. Have you...
How to show which Git branches have changed recently
How to use Git's in-built sorting functionality to manage repos with many active branches
HapiJS: Routing notes
Notes on routing in the Hapi framework
Turning AWS Log Insights into metrics
How one of POP's developers turned Log Insight queries into time-based metrics using Lambdas
Getting Black and isort to agree on formatting
A working configuration file for isort that makes it easy to use both isort and black on the same project
Pinebook Pro first impressions
Initial thoughts on using the new Pinebook Pro
Checking whether a number sequence has two or four digits in Python
Using Python Regular Expressions to check whether that the year element of the date string either has two or four digit years
Resolving Git conflicts in Pipenv Lockfiles
How to resolve conflicting Git changes to Pipenv Lockfiles quickly
Nomad Migration Manager
A user-report on using Nomad to manage database migrations for a Python web project
Monoliths are distributed systems too
Monoliths contain some of the same concerns as microservices but the abstraction they provide obscures having to think about this
Finding memory bloat in Firefox tabs
How to find problems with excessive web page resource consumption in Firefox using the about:memory report
My best CSS 2019 performance tip: contain
Isolated your DOM with this one weird property