I implemented search and filtering for entities on our product at epilot. The users were heavily using the feature, however, a unique issue surfaced: difficulties in filtering file names containing diacritical marks like umlauts (Ă„pfel, ĂĽber, schön, etc.). Intrigued, I delved into the logic to investigate. Initially, everything seemed in order. For instance, a file named “blöb”… Continue reading The ĂĽ/ĂĽ Conundrum
til: TF plugin cache
Writing a tool at work to move our infrastructure setup to a more declarative approach. To do so, I run terraform inside AWS Lambda (will write about this some time), every time a configuration needs to be applied. I use the terraform import feature to copy configurations from test accounts, and need to do so… Continue reading til: TF plugin cache
How using Server-Timing API helped bring > 70% perf improvement
When working on the web, we all end up coming across situations where the experience for the user seems a bit janky. This happens either when you are dogfooding, or the users actually highlight facing that slowness, or you see that for yourself in your performance metrics or tools. What one’d do in such a… Continue reading How using Server-Timing API helped bring > 70% perf improvement
the “fancy” year
I have come to realise a pattern in my past few years. It happens to be a series of one type of things that I do, and I do a lot of that for the year. For example, 2018 was “writing blog posts” year, wrote more than 50 blog posts. 2019, “the reading books” years,… Continue reading the “fancy” year
Breaking up long tasks
Imagine the scenario where you click on an element and expect a response but the element doesn’t seem like it was clicked and doesn’t respond, so you click again. Those two clicks however, when the response completes, lead to undoing the action you wanted. Ever happened with you? Sounds frustrating, doesn’t it? This is the… Continue reading Breaking up long tasks
Failed to execute ‘removeChild’ on ‘Node’.
This error is frequently noticed on some projects. Though it seems to be something to do with DOM modification, there seems to be nothing obvious from code where this could be caused. So, turns out there can be multiple reasons for this to occur: 1. Applying browser translation on non-wrapped elements.2. Conditionally rendering elements inside… Continue reading Failed to execute ‘removeChild’ on ‘Node’.
dabbling at epilot with…
Year 2022 marked an amazing start for me with a new stint with epilot GmbH based out of Cologne, Germany. I joined the team to be working on their micro-frontend architecture, with my primary focus going to be on the performance aspects of the applications. Like the first recent addition we did after I started was… Continue reading dabbling at epilot with…
Custom A2HS for your PWA
I came across a question somewhere regarding adding a custom prompt of “Add to Home Screen” for your progressive web application for the browsers that do not have a built-in support for the same. An example of this is the Safari browser that currently does not prompt the user for adding an app to your… Continue reading Custom A2HS for your PWA
Angular web app on Azure Static web apps
Building your app from a Github repository, with monitored commits and continuous deployment. Sounds fun? We can do this using Azure Static web apps. This was announced at Microsoft Build this year 2020. And, it seems to be making the task of building and hosting our web applications seamless. heard it right! Hosting web apps,… Continue reading Angular web app on Azure Static web apps
Counter with Redux-saga
Have been exploring redux-saga lately and thought I will put down here a simple counter example using Redux saga with TypeScript to manage the counter state across the application. We will start with with a simple create-react-app with a Counter Component. In the first part of the article, we will see how to modify the… Continue reading Counter with Redux-saga