Voltra articles - 25 total
"Back-end as a Front-end" or How admin dashboards can drive your apps
A discovery I was writing a playlist manager app. I had an API server setup, my database...
My first major contribution: More rxjs in vue-use
Let me tell you the story of my first (actually relevant) major contribution to an Open Source...
cpp-as-is: A taste of the future of genericity, in the past
At CppCon 2021, Herb Sutter gave a talk about potential pattern matching in the C++ standard. One...
IP Info was a mistake, and how digging for the source of the problem is tricky
IP Info is the list of information that is publicly available from just having your IP Address...
Phone number centric apps are a Security Hazard
Let's not beat around the bush, using phone numbers as part of the required information for a user...
Re-imagining Async/Await polyfills
One thing I've always been curious about is: why use generators to polyfill async/await? Sure I can...
Free Monads for smart optimized code
One of the most annoying and complex problem to solve is database querying. When your request is not...
Web Environment Integrity: Google strikes again
The Web Environment Integrity is yet another Google proposal for making the web worse for everyone...
A novel idea for (more) deterministic recommendation engines
The idea comes from the fact that the search engine of YouTube is pretty decent, but the...
The misery of Hacktoberfest's reward merch
As you may know, one of the rewards you can choose from for participating in Hacktoberfest is the...
What is e.defaultPrevented and why library authors MUST use it
Event#defaultPrevented is, as per MDN, a flag available on an event to know whether its default...
Dear "developers" who insist they don't need HTTPS, or SSL certificates
Please invite me somewhere we can share the same network, you know, so you can showcase your...
Where modern front-end frameworks fall short, and how to help them and yourself
When you need to communicate between pages you have a few options: Use your framework's events...
How the Command pattern can save your offline-first app's ass
Table of Contents Preamble The Command design pattern How does that help? What are the...
JS Promises are monadic... just not the way you'd expect
Note that these apply mostly to Promise<NonPromiseType>. Some properties do not hold due to the...
gdpr-guard against GDPR-compliance's hassle
Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce to you: gdpr-guard. Table Of Content What is...
"Everything is political"?
I truly hope that this will be my last politics-related post. I don't like talking about politics at...
My views on Open Source
I might have what many could call a utopic view of what Open Source is. Ever since I began teaching...
Fakerjs, colors, node-ipc... Why developers cannot be trusted
Ladies and gentlemen, the fact that I have to talk politics 3 times in less than 3 months is an...
How attacks on Ukraine showed us how fragile the "deontology" of the Tech World is
In a previous post, I go on a bit of a tangent about mixing politics and science and how it's always...
Stop mixing Science and Politics
That's it. No fancy content. Just stop. You're neither activists, nor scientists, nor humanists. You...
Hooks, composition, were they needed?
Intro As a front-end developer but also an Engineer in Computer Science, hooks from React...
Ode to the forgotten editor
Brackets, also known as Adobe Brackets, is a text editor. For a long time it was my preferred editor...
A (somewhat) Universal approach to lazy sequence manipulation
Fellow developers, how many times have you transformed array.map(mapper).filter(predicate)...
How Material Theme UI went from 5 stars to 3 stars
Material Theme UI, arguably one of the most used themes for the Jetbrains Suite of IDEs, has brought...