Responsive Images in Rails applications
As a quick tip, here's how to generate a <picture> element within Rails that will instruct browsers how to load different images on different »
TIL: Git URL shortcuts to github, heroku and others
Git provides a mechanism to reference URLs during git commands. People usually use these to enforce HTTPS connections instead of using the git protocol. With a »
Bootstrapping a FreeBSD system with Ansible
FreeBSD does not come with python preinstalled and programmatically installing it via ansible from a control machine may be tricky. During the first invocation of pkg, »
Avoiding PG::NotNullViolation errors when adding new columns in Rails migrations
I have seen this being a common question across newcomers to Rails. When you are adding a new column to an existing table with a non-null »
TodoMVC with Ember and a Phoenix backend using JSONAPI
As part of my attempt to learn more about Phoenix I decided to write a Phoenix application backend to the infamous TodoMVC example using ember-cli and »
The state of LibreSSL in FreeBSD
As part of my ongoing effort to evaluate FreeBSD as a server OS I took the time to see what it takes to replace OpenSSL with »