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Automating household chores reminders using Tody app to manage infrequent but important tasks like changing toothbrush heads and bedsheets.

Well-structured meetings are a secret weapon that product managers should utilise to facilitate effective collaboration between product, UX, and engineering.

AMP was introduced by Google as a web development framework to help speed up the web for mobile devices. Learn whether it's necessary for your SEO strategy.

A guide to integrating Sanity.io headless CMS with Eleventy, including setup, data retrieval, and rendering blog posts.

Auto-event variables can help you reduce the number of tags and triggers you need for measuring events.

Many tech companies have responded to the coronavirus pandemic by shutting down offices. Learn how to stay productive as a remote product manager.

Reflections on transitioning from Software Engineer to Product Manager, covering challenges, expectations vs reality, and handling the first 30 days.

Migrating from Hugo to Eleventy has been a really pleasant and enjoyable experience.

Learn how to set up unit testing in NativeScript Vue using Jest and Vue Test Utils when the Vue way doesn't work out of the box.

Share extensions are a type of app extension in iOS that extend functionality to your app. Learn how to create a share extension in NativeScript.

After setting up Appium and Nativescript-dev-appium for end-to-end testing in your Nativescript app, you may encounter this error when running your tests for the first time

ES6 introduces a new type of Set object that stores unique values. This is very useful if you want to get only unique values from an array, similar to Ruby's uniq method.

Passing functions down as props is mostly considered an anti-pattern in Vue.js. It links both parent child components together with two-way data binding. Vue.js has a better native way of handling this.

If you're using Hexo static site generator and trying to integrate Netlify CMS, you may encounter a cryptic error. Learn how to fix it.

Reflections on one year transitioning from growth hacker to growth engineer, exploring the difference between growth hacking and growth engineering.

Let's say you needed to track how many times a specific button in your Vue app is clicked on using Google Analytics, how would you do it? The first thing that comes to mind might be with a click handler.

Having experimented with multiple static site generators and not being very satisfied with all of them for a simple personal blog / website use case, Vuepress hits the sweet spot

CircleCI was a great automation timesaver previously when I worked with Opswork. It ran all our tests and deployed to Opsworks after all tests turned green

I use the .dev domain a lot on localhost when working with Rails apps in development. It seems that the Chrome 63 update has stated enforcing HSTS on .dev domains, which means you'll need self-signed certificates for your dev environment sites to work

One of the best ways to grow your traffic is via organic SEO. The concept is simple, you add in new content that is relevant to the audience you want visiting your site, and with more content, it increases the chances that your website appears in relevant searches

Guide to migrating from Ghost on DigitalOcean to Jekyll hosted on Github Pages, including theme setup, deployment, and custom domains.

I encountered a really amateur issue that I think shouldn't be happening after so many years working in Rails - my Rails log ballooned into a Godzilla proportions and I ran out of disk space

I've been exploring how to implement a decent unit testing workflow instead of relying too much on feature testing.

If you try to cache a HTTParty response directly, you find that you run into some strange error quickly

I don't like to type bundle exec cap production deploy so I wrote a quick rake task to run that command with fewer keystrokes.

Metaprogramming in Ruby / Rails is so sweet. In one of my core projects, I have utilised Rails constantize method to dynamically call classes. Let's say we are keeping a record of people interested in adopting a pet and the pets available for adoption.

We are all about efficiency as developers. Why hammer commands line after line into the terminal when you can write code to do it for you? As I setup this Ghost-powered blog, I set out to document down this process as repeatable code.