Blogs about Back-end web development

git rev-list lists details about commits (also known as “revisions”, hence the name). Its --count option outputs the count of commits in the given range. Pass it @, the short alias for HEAD, to count …

Author’s note: This is a longer piece that starts off with exposition into the nature of the N+1 query problem. If you’re already well familiar with it, you may want to skip my description of …

.NET Blazor has been touted as a revolutionary framework that allows .NET developers to build interactive web applications using C# instead of JavaScript. It's mainly aimed at ASP.NET Core developers who want to build SPA-like …

Warning: This post contains themes of grief and loss. While searching through my Notes app yesterday, I came across a poem that I’d written 6ish years ago. I was in two minds of posting this, …

This 6th annual Laracon AU brought together the biggest crowd in Australia yet. After months of teasing a new Laravel product, Taylor and Jess announced Nightwatch, a fully managed application monitoring platform for Laravel.

Once you’ve deployed your web app to prod there is a moment of satisfaction: a brief respite where you can reflect on your hard work. You sit, adoringly refreshing the homepage of www.mysite.com to watch …

Today, I want to write about steps you can take to make your take home test easy to run, and win brownie points with reviewers. I spent a lot of time in the last half …

Signalling allows for applications to be decoupled by allowing designated receivers to be informed when an action has taken place (the signal). Flask and Quart both utilise the excellent Blinker library to support signals and …

On August 2014 I made one of the most difficult choices of my life: I left my home country, my family, my friends and everything I knew to move to the United States. I arrived …

Visits counter was a critical feature of every website just 20 years ago. In this tutorial, we will implement it with Rust Cloudflare Workers by adding persistence and dynamic behaviors to an otherwise static page. …

How to fix the `SQLSTATE[HY000] [1524] Plugin 'mysql_native_password' is not loaded` errors caused in MySQL 8.4 no longer enabling the `mysql_native_password` plugin by default.

A short introduction to the rdbg/debugger extension for VS Code, plus a guide on how to set it up correctly to debug your Ruby on Rails applications, as well as your RSpec specs. The VS …

Jetpack Compose's Navigation library has introduced long-awaited type safety, making navigation between destinations more robust, intuitive, and of-course safe. But what happens when you need to pass custom classes as arguments? Luckily, the library supports …

How to use multiple Erlang/Elixir versions in Windows

Version numbering is hard, and there are lots of popular schemes out there for how to do it. Today I want to talk about a system I’ve settled on for my own Django-related packages, and …