The Blog

A comprehensive guide to adopting Changesets for semantic versioning and publishing packages in monorepos and non-monorepo projects.

How to deploy a Vue 3 static site to Heroku with a Fastify Node.js backend server to serve the static files.

How to harness the power of streams in Fastify web applications without resorting to raw HTTP replies via reply.raw() and reply.hijack().

I found a Local File Inclusion (LFI) security vulnerability in xmlhttprequest library but it's still unfixed.

proof-of-concept showing a denial of service vulnerability in a Node.js web server if it uses the xmlhttprequest library to make outgoing HTTP requests

Customizing AsciiDoc can be challenging at times, especially when it comes to admonitions. In this article, I'll show you how to apply custom admonition styles to your AsciiDoc book.

If you are looking for a way to write your book in a format that is easy to read and write, and that can be easily converted to other formats such as PDF, ePUB and HTML, then AsciiDoc is a great choice. Let me show you how to get started with AsciiDoc Book Starter GitHub repository and an automated setup.

Reflecting on the spirit of the GitHub Stars award and capturing the essence of the journey towards the recognition and open source community engagement.

Reflecting on ReadyCodePush, the first open source activism program I ran in 2022 and how it welcomed underrepresented groups and students into open source software.

PageFind client-side search for Astro is simple but if you want to add search capabilities to a personal blog then you might think of Algolia first. However, let me show you how an easy PageFind integration would be more suitable for a static-site generation type of blog tech.

In this post, I will show you some advanced usage patterns for working with Playwright in order to take a screenshot of a specific element and modify the contents of the image, either before taking the screenshot or after, using image preprocessing tools.

How can we harness AI and crowd-sourced workflows into our day to day interactions with the command-line?

Being an active content creator, whether this is writing, video, or any other form of content requires a good deal of time and effort. Here are some tools that can help you be more productive.

What do you think of the following JavaScript URL validation function code? Are you accidentally adding security issues while doing so?

How do you find events to attend or speak at? I often get asked that and in this article I'll share the resources I use for CFP application and public speaking at conferences.

How do you find events to attend or speak at? I often get asked that and in this article I'll share the resources I use for CFP application and public speaking at conferences.

By all means this is not a joke, nor a spam.You can really, truly, make $500 dollars if you are able to just find one security…

I recently announced on social media about my latest Docker utility — a Node.js shell UI to easily manage your docker containers. It’s an…

I’m sure you’re interested in ES6, supporting JSX, etc.So I worked out this intro so you can get up to speed really quick and really clear…

Let’s talk about open software software engineers.

Keeping your 3rd party project dependencies secured is such an important task that you can’t under-estimate.

So you’re interested in writing up some ES6 on your server-side NodeJS project? awesome! you’re in the right place.

We recently celebrated Rosh Hashana, which is the Jewish New Year, so obviously a lot of self examination which translate to us engineers…

We often find ourselves creating a new libraries, tools, and some times frameworks and bigger projects. When you end up releasing those…

Linux is all over the place. Seriously.