A treatise on JavaScript dependencies
JavaScript dependency trees are a bit of a punching bag in the programming world. Even in a small project, the directory can easily reach…
More (8 min read) →Implementing search on a static site with Netlify functions
Recently, our team at Aha! has been working on migrating our public marketing website from a traditional Rails app to a Gatsby application…
More (5 min read) →Put your engineers on support
Let’s talk about your bug backlog. You know you have it — somewhere in your issue tracker, a stack of dozens or maybe even hundreds of bugs…
More (10 min read) →Elixir, Phoenix, Absinthe, GraphQL, React, and Apollo: a followup
A few months ago, I published a blog post about my experience building a simple social media web application with Elixir, Phoenix, Absinthe…
More (12 min read) →Elixir, Phoenix, Absinthe, GraphQL, React, and Apollo: an absurdly deep dive
If you’re anything like me, at least 3 or 4 of the keywords in the title of this article fall under the category of “things I’ve been…
More (53 min read) →Our Secret Sauce Is React Native
It’s been an up-and-down kind of year for React Native. Last summer, Udacity and Airbnb announced that they were moving off of the platform…
More (5 min read) →Anatomy of a phishing attack
I was scrolling through my Twitter feed today and came across a curious-looking ad: Hmm. Last I checked, Twitter doesn’t use random…
More (5 min read) →event-stream vulnerability explained
If you work with JavaScript at all, you probably saw a ton of noise yesterday about a vulnerability in the event-stream npm package…
More (11 min read) →How I Convinced Our CTO to Switch From CoffeeScript to ES6
Aha! is a Rails monolith. Although we have embraced front end technologies, such as webpack and React, Rails is the glue that holds…
More (12 min read) →My Sublime Text Setup Revisited
Three and a half years ago (wow, time flies) I wrote a blog post detailing my Sublime Text configuration. Over that time, I’ve tried out a…
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