I started heavy development on Firecode.io this week to get it out of beta — and one of the first changes I had to make was renaming my primary branch to “main”. In 2020, Github announced that it would be dropping the use of the term “master” for the default…

As someone that still swears by Bootstrap, I recently had the opportunity to try Tailwind CSS. I’m currently working on a new Rails 7 app for my wife, and I wanted to design a new logo for it. I used Illustrator to create the logo, and exported it as a…

If you are a frequent user of Ruby on Rails, you know that building authentication and user management systems can be a time-consuming and complex process. That’s where Devise comes in — a powerful authentication solution that simplifies the process of implementing user management systems in your Rails applications. As…

You may not give it a second thought, but as a software engineer, you come across Semantic Versioning every day. Simply put, it’s a way of standardizing how version numbers are assigned and interpreted. It follows a three-part numbering system: Major.Minor.Patch. …

I consider myself a backend software engineer — and as any backend engineer would attest, a large part of our life is spent monitoring, troubleshooting, and debugging our applications. The fundamental rule of software development is that software will fail — what separates new developers from experienced ones is how…

While building Firecode.io I was recently confronted with more than a hundred failing unit tests when running the test suite locally on my MacOS machine, rather than in a Linux Docker container the platform is configured to run tests in.