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 […]

npm dtrace-provider occasional issue

Context: if you use a node module having dtrace-provider as one of its dependencies, even primary or optional, once in a while you may notice a peculiar error spit out from your node processes: Error: Cannot find module ‘./build/Debug/DTraceProviderBindings’ This usually happens when I upgrade my Node.js version then go back to maintaining a few week […]

constant panic (my mac osx)

So, in the past month, my Mac has been automatically restarting itself times and times again. While there is a possibility that some part inside it broke down, I really don’t even wanna think about that. Instead, I’ll just attribute it to the fact that my SSD is already 93% full, and apparently the hibernate […]

How do I (as a developer) use Automattic products (and their competitors) – Part 1

Hello there, If you’re a random reader, this post is exactly as its title reads. If you happen to be from Automattic Inc. itself, you know why this post is here! Now without further ado, I’ll tell you a story about how I came to choose and use some of Automattic’s products. A. WordPress itself […]