Yawar Amin articles - 44 total
Why hx-boost is actually the most important feature of htmx
A widely misunderstood htmx attribute holds the key to unlocking its hypermedia design philosophy
Easy parsing with reasonable error messages in OCaml's Angstrom
How to use 'labels' to provide helpful parse error messages
You're thinking about passkeys wrong
It's a godsend for ordinary people but hated by (some) tech folks
Powerful form validation with OCaml's Dream framework
Accessing the power of static typing for server-side form validation and error reporting
Handling form errors in htmx
How to report all errors to the user
A type theory mnemonic for boolean operator precedence
IN COMPUTER languages which support boolean operators like && (and) and || (or), &&...
Constructing XML output with dream-html
How to have complete control over the XML output from your code
Bare-bones unit testing in OCaml with dune
THERE are various techniques and tools to do unit testing in OCaml. A small selection: Alcotest -...
Why I don't use a third-party assertion library in Go unit tests
TL;DR: I don't need it, and you probably don't either. I'll explain below. As we know of course, Go...
Format strings in OCaml
OCAML doesn't have string interpolation, but it does have C-style format strings (but type-safe)....
Bookmarklets, and why you should use them
Unlock your browser's full potential with this hidden technique
Tagging OCaml packages
How to tag your opam packages for better searchability
Vulnerability inflation in infosec
How infosec people will grab onto every bug
Translations without the tears
Trying to simplify the complex world of i18n/l10n with SQLite
Scala app configuration with environment variables
Ditching the fancy config files and creating strongly-typed configs directly in Scala
Scala for-comprehensions for resource management
JAVA's 'try-with-resources' statement is its idiomatic answer to the question of safe resource...
Practical OCaml, Multicore Edition
Updating the proof-of-concept server for Multicore OCaml
How to print anything in OCaml
How to use the `Fmt` module to pretty-print OCaml values
The human toll of log4j maintenance
How the pressure of fixing the vulnerability was dumped on a tiny team over a frantic weekend
Quick-and-dirty pure command-line arguments in OCaml
Using only the standard library
Practical OCaml
This is a guide to OCaml as a pragmatic, general-purpose language that can scale with your everyday...
SQLite - a developer's best friend
Some surprising use cases for the most popular database engine in the world
Use Google Drive as a local directory on Linux
Photo by Peggy Anke on Unsplash HAVE you ever wanted to use your Google Drive like a ... well, a...
How does ReScript affect me?
A guide to what the ReScript project means to you
How to set up a 20-minute computer break on Linux
IN A previous post, I showed how to set up a scheduled notification every twenty minutes of using the...
Reducing system complexity by adding more components
A counter-intuitive approach to building full-stack systems (or, using the right tool for the job)
Publish ReasonML API docs automatically
How to set up a fast build pipeline that publishes API docs on every git push
Emulating TypeScript union types with ReasonML, part 2
IN a previous post, I showed a technique in Reason for automatically creating a 'union type' like the...
OCaml for Business
Why an often-overlooked programming language can be a perfect fit for businesses
ReasonReact JSX children–a subtle difference from JavaScript
RECENTLY, I realized that the way we concatenate strings as children elements inside ReasonReact JSX...