User impersonation in SaaS with Ember.js and Ruby on Rails When developing SaaS, it’s very convenient, and arguably even urgent, to be able to log in as your users and see exactly what they see. This is especially im...
If Marcus Aurelius were a software developer Working with people is hard when you feel like people in your organization are incompetent, sloppy, holding you back, or even working against you.
Making a concrete coffee table Coffee tables are arguably the most important piece of furniture in a living room. They hold much more than coffee, and are a centerpiece around which the mo...
What is SaaS white labeling and how to do it? Depending on your online business, white labeling can turn out to be a fantastic business model. This applies especially when your target customers are actua...
Partial, resource-related dumps in PostgreSQL Sometimes we find ourselves in a need for copying and restoring a specific set of data belonging to a common parent resource. For example, we want to connect...
CloudFront redirections for your SPA using AWS Lambda (A/B testing, maintenance page,…) For many people, the stack of choice for deploying a JavaScript application (SPA) or other assets is to save them to Amazon S3 and serve it to the world over...
Tips for writing an indie e-book Write material because you genuinely like doing it and because it will help people. Quick dollar should be treated as a happy side-effect.
Dynamic CSS in Ember templates When you need a dirty workaround, Ember’s templating engine can reactively spit out practically any markup a browser can understand.
Making a concrete fibonacci clock Not a very practical clock, but the fusion of the curious numerical sequence with a lighting installation aesthetic is just too appealing to look away.
Recurring subscription payments: use external service or make your own? Billing is far more complex than people tend to believe, and much more so with subscriptions.
Tips for selling your side project All I did was put together a trivial web app to scratch my own itch, and it keeps scratching it, while I drink my free beer.
How to reset Ember applications Usually when the user logs out of your Ember application, we want to clear the state, wipe out every trace of user activity, and unload the store in order to...
Import an external library as an ES6 module in your Ember app Consuming 3rd party libraries from the browser’s global window scope is nowadays considered as outrageous, egregious, preposterous.
