I'm Attila. I'm a senior full-stack freelancer, an ex-Londoner who worked previously for @terracycle, @ubxd and @lastfm. My focus is on high quality output using agile development, Ruby/Rails and JS.
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As it occurred to me that some people don't quite realise how they can tame their npm to behave like a good UNIX citizen. What do I mean? Well let's look at my ~/.npmrc configuration: ~/.npmrc is loaded and interpreted every single time you run an npm command.…
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In this post I'll show you what umask is and how to use it to set more appropriate and more restrictive permissions of newly created files on a FreeBSD system with the intention to increase the level of security. If you have used UNIX you must know about permi…
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Live reloading assets used to be a breeze. Not anymore, since Rails these days does a lot of funky operations on our assets, even in development. I used to use rack-livereload for its simplicity but it doesn’t seem to be working anymore for some reasons. Curre…
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I’m not going to lie, I’m a purist. Even though browsers are very capable of handling our mistakes when it comes down to markup, I always thought that if my markup is wrong then there must be some deeper underlying problem. When you work with Rails application…
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I have always been the guy who wasn't afraid of trying out betas of OS X with the goal to provide resolutions to development environment related issues so that by the time stable versions hit the market, everyone could upgrade because solutions are ready. Toda…
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I've come across quite a few node projects lately that use the async.waterfall method to execute a series of callbacks in a linear fashion. In some cases the async.waterfall call is nested in a function body that has its own callback. I see code like this: Not…