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I needed to add support for HEIF/HEIC images in my application and thought it would be a fun introduction to AWS Lambda. Since I have minimal experience with AWS and this was an exercise for myself I thought it would also be fun to use Sharp. The first thing I learned is that HEIF is...
I needed to add the Trix Editor to my React application and couldn’t find a simple solution. Since having an actual <input /> node in the DOM isn’t required, I opted to have the value bound directly the editor’s built in input node. Usage import React, { useState } from 'react' const Form = ()...
Github Actions were recently made widely available and this workflow has been awesome. It runs Postgres in a docker container and installs the libpq-dev package for the pg gem. Enjoy! It’s important to note that this configuration runs Postgres inside a docker container with the port forwarded to a random, available port within the build’s...
I’m often looking for a flexible solution for determining if I’m on the current route. I say flexible because sometimes a link is bound to a single controller, or sometimes multiple controllers, or multiple controllers with specific actions. Rails Helper Matcher Class Usage Spec Rails Helper # app/helpers/active_link_helper.rb # frozen_string_literal: true require_relative "../../lib/active_link_path" module ActiveLinkHelper...
A few years ago I had the opportunity to help build a social media platform designed to connect professionals with various connections. The idea being to index users based on companies or individuals they had previously mentioned having a connection to. While this is a problem I still don’t fully understand it was especially difficult...