Exploring the differences in Custom Date Components in Vue.js and Vanilla JavaScript. — Recently we had reason to rework how we collect birthdates (and other dates at Seraphin). While the default browser implementation can do the trick at the beginning, we were facing several problems: The implementation is not consistent across all browsers. Most browsers opened a calendar input focused on today’s date…

Recently, we had reason to rework how we collect birthdates (and other dates at Seraphin). While the default browser implementation can do the trick at the beginning, we were facing several problems: The implementation is not consistent across all browsers. Most browsers opened a calendar input focused on today’s date…

Recently we had reason to rework how we collect birthdates (and other dates at Seraphin). While the default browser implementation can do the trick at the beginning, we were facing several problems: The implementation is not consistent across all browsers. Most browsers opened a calendar input focused on today’s date…

I Have had trouble with tables a couple of times. Not because of how to create the actual cells, but because of performance issues. Let me use as an example the time I had to create a table that would routinely timeout my page on Heroku (requests timeout after 30s)…

Recently I had the opportunity to use and explore Hash#merge and Hash#merge! (aka Hash#update). These methods are surprisingly powerful, and if you are working with hashes that need to merge with other hashes, it is surprising to learn about their flexibility. Possibilities You will have more explanations in the documentation But…

This article will guide you through the thought process behind creating a picture_tag helper in Rails. We implemented this helper to optimize how we serve images on our website and improve performance for SEO. The result will be close to this: <picture> <source srcset=”path_to_image.webp” > <img src=”path_to_image.png’” alt=”alt text” > …

The hot take All coding is fundamentally made of magic and leaps of faith. The shortish justification It might be because I grew up with very close ties to the worlds created by Ursula K. Le Guin, JRR Tolkien, or JK Rowling. …

Over the last couple of weeks, I have been trying to get the basics of go in my free time. To do so, I decided to build a terminal-based Pomodoro timer. If you are not familiar with the Pomodoro technique, here you can find more about it. The code I…

TL:DR As a manager, having regularly scheduled times to speak one on one with your team members about non-work-related things can benefit the manager, the team member, and the team considerably. This thought has not occurred to me alone, and there are probably many sources. In my head, I trace it…