TL;DR - Mani is a many-repo tool that helps you manage multiple repositories. It's useful when you are working with microservices, multi-project systems, or just a bunch of personal repositories and want a central place for pulling all repositories and running commands over them.

When searching for indexedDB on google, the top search results don't provide a good introduction to indexedDB. So I thought it might help others who want to persist some data in the browser (and avoid hitting the limit of localStorages 5 Mb size cap) to more easily get started.

Because I haven't posted in a long time, and I want to maintain the image of being an active blogger, it's time to go over the basics of internet communication, bit by bit... sorry :S

Man is a consumer and a producer, a pattern interpreter and pattern producer; thus the code we produce and consume ought to have characteristics that favor such activities. So, how do we produce easily consumed code? We do so by following patterns and code principles that enable us to increase encapsulation (information hiding), modularity, maintainability, readability, etc., all properties of a well-designed system.

This tutorial covers setting up a private Docker Registry on AWS with Nginx setup as a reverse proxy and generated Let's Encrypt SSL certificates. While the steps are specific to particular environments (Ubuntu, S3), they can easily be replicated to others. Also keep in mind that Let's Encrypt certificates are only valid for a limited amount of time (something like three months).

"97 things every programmer should know" is a rich book containing programming wisdom from famous software developers. The "things" range from practical advice on how to write code, to the more social aspect of coding and the importance of it. I believe all points combined produce an accurate list of properties of a complete and accomplished programmer.

In this post, we'll go through how to create a script that records commands on the command-line and generates GIFS (Graphics Interchange Format) without having to record them manually.

BEM (Block-Element-Modifier) is a naming pattern that helps you reason about your implementations. Any text that embeds a hierarchy or structure is a suitable candidate for BEM. For instance, it can be used to name your CSS components or even keys in your configuration files.

Occasionally it's nice to get away from the mentally challenging and at times mundane aspect of programming and venture into the creative and adventerous world of indie games. Luckily, the last few years have produced interesting and well thought out indie games, both story and gameplay wise. There won't be any spoilers in this post, it's just my general opinion of the games and how well they entertained me. I usually measure the effect of the story by how much it affected me personally, and if it's the kind of story that even after I complete the game, it gets me to research in how others interpreted the ending and the meaning of the game.

Json (or more recently Jsonb) is a great addition to Postgres, and soon many other established SQL solutions will follow suit. It enables us to relax some of the conditions relational databases come with, such as enforcing a schema (perhaps where no schema is to be found) or having a predefined type. For me, one of the biggest problems it helps tackle is situations where you are faced with a varying number of attributes, usually needed to be dynamically added / removed by the end user. Old solutions include the dreading EAV (entity-attribute-value) model, which treats each additional column or attribute as a row in a table.

I've been slowly replacing my for and while loops with forEach, some and every method. This mainly stems from the functional programming hysteria, as well as using libraries such as D3 which uses a functional style of programming.