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
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The ü/ü Conundrum
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 (Äpfel, über, schön, etc.). Intrigued, I delved into the logic to investigate. Initially, everything seemed in order. For instance, a file named “blöb”… Continue reading The ü/ü Conundrum
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