#development

With a simple rake task, you can generate a prompt to have o1 provide a comprehensive review of your code.

Cursor has an experimental Bug Finder that's quite expensive and is paid for at every run. I was curious to try it out and share in case anyone's curious.

Potato Analytics is a minimalist, self-hosted solution for tracking unique pageviews with minimal maintenance and zero data collection—all thanks to the efficiency of the HyperLogLog algorithm

Most horror stories I read about unauthorized server access could have been prevented if the server had been locked down. Here's how to do it in a few minutes.

Seeing features in the Cloudflare dashboard used to be great. You pressed a button, and your website was now slightly better. Sadly, this isn't the case with Cloudflare Fonts, and I would recommend staying away for now.

A short tutorial on how to use Supabase to store embeddings on blog posts to display related articles.

I wanted a more custom blog reminiscent of the older web, full of intimate personal websites, so I rebuilt my blog with a custom blogging platform.

It is still possible to build interactive features on the web without overengineering them. At least, that’s what I wanted to prove to myself when adding a commenting system to this blog.

When building a SAAS, every week comes with opportunities to use news tools. Maybe we need to add a new database or to track a new project. Those are almost never first-times. You most likely already have a database currently online.

Lately, we’ve been told HTTPS is finally faster than HTTP. Mostly because of HTTP/2’s multiplexing. In this post, I want to highlight an issue we rarely think about with HTTPS: the slowdown it implies for users far away from your servers. Since we’re usually on the same continent as our servers, we never get to think about this.

I’m sure you’ve had to write some code where you have a few hundred thousand items and need to do some work on them. Performing the jobs serially would be too long. And launching everything at once with goroutines isn’t possible because of some other limitation. You need a worker pool.

They are cases when you need to disable some endpoints of a website as fast as possible. For example, in the case were an issue on an endpoint is causing all of your website to go down. Or because you need to limit the traffic load quickly by sacrificing parts of the API, instead of losing everything.

A few weeks ago we launched our security bounty program. This was a great decision and we should have done it earlier. Over the last few weeks, we learned some key lessons.