nginx proxying to unix sockets: lessons learned

I might classify this article under “rage post”, as it’s 4:30am and tomorrow’s early work prevents me from explaining things properly. Considering you have an nginx app proxying to /your/app.socket ; then the combination of the user and group and chmod value on the app.socket file itself & the directory containing it (in this example, […]

make a string url-safe

When running devops scripts (among other things), we often need to get a url-safe representation of an arbitrary string. This is commonly known as “url slug” by the average netizens. As my JavaScript is better than my bash, and npx is more universally available than my capability to master both Windows and Linux shell scripts, […]

Explain SPF like I'm 12

Say, you have just registered your own domain name: “myawesomedomain.com”, and a geek friend of yours says “hey pal, you’ll need to pay someone, or set up your own server, to send emails out from that awesome domain. Lemme do it for you!”

good luck catching fetch redirection ssl error

Have you ever tried fetching a resource that would redirect to an HTTPS url whose SSL certificate is not recognised by your browser (or downright invalid)? Yep, of course the fetch will fail (in general). But how to catch it properly? Instinctively, one will probably think of something along this line: which is fair enough. […]

Ownership

Ownership is forever a golden indicator of the success of any project. In plain English: You simply cannot deliver without owning… your deliverables. Good business owners hire managers who own their own team’s KPI. Excellent business owners hire managers who own the entire corporate’s KPI, but know well enough when to or not to step […]

bitrise hangs during Xcode Archive & Export for iOS

Photo by Mag Pole on Unsplash As a big fan of automation, I rarely decline an opportunity to setup a CI/CD flow for a new project, be it a React-stack website (with or without SSR), or a mobile application (native or cross-platform). A web application, be it based on Node.js, or PHP, or any other language, can be […]

ghost 2.x – how to use a specific pOST as THE home (landing) page

This post discusses an approach to use a normal Post as the entire homepage of a Ghost blog

minimal TypeScript project setup

In this post, I’d love to discuss a setup that’s minimal enough for me to start a TypeScript-based project.

npm install keeps showing permission errors?

Alright, this is gonna be a big no brainer, but we’ve all spent 1 full hour looking for our glasses, wearing them the whole time, haven’t we? If you keep getting permission errors whenever you npm install (even if you’ve fully followed the official guide on how not to get npm permission error), then obviously […]

Using mocha with ES6+ spec files

Okay, so the problem is obvious: we want to use mocha to run spec .js files written in ES6+ ( very likely with async await being utilised ‘cuz everybody loves ’em 😉 ). I’ll go ahead and state it upfront that: there is nothing special or challenging about this. I’m blogging this only for the sheer reason […]