Blog

A series of short posts explaining discoveries, learnings and programming nuggets I stumbled upon. Opinions and bugs are my own.

Resolving a schema conflict during rebase in Rails
- March 12, 2021
Resolving merge conflicts is never fun. It is even less when it involves migrations and schema files ...
How to create a Color Picker plugin for Strapi CMS
- October 31, 2020
An exploration of Strapi's plugin ecosystem and how to develop your own custom input field....
Override Tailwind Typography with twin.macro
- October 19, 2020
Typography is key element on a web page containing a lot of content. It is also a wide topic covering font families, sizes, weights, line heights, spacing and so many other specs it can quickly become...
Handle animation state with Framer Motion
- October 12, 2020
I recently redesigned this very website and used the opportunity to deeper explore a few topics (testing, typescript...), including animations. After trying a few animation libraries for React, I sett...
Manipulate images on the fly with CloudImage
- October 10, 2020
One of my client's requests for https://fetedelascience-paysdelaloire.fr/ was to display the Instagram feed of the event on the homepage. Facebook having recently changed its API to the Instagram Grap...
Monitor your Netlify builds with Slack Webhooks
- October 6, 2020
In a recent episode of the excellent Learn with Jason show, I discovered a term shared by Ben Ilegbodu: "div ops". The term refers to a form of dev ops applied to front-end development. Once purely f...
Enable Cypress hot-reload in Gatsby
- September 30, 2020
In my quest to dive deeper into code testing, I started using Cypress with Gatsby and have been enjoying the process so far. One thing was missing though: the ability for Cypress to automatically re-r...