I like infrastructure and I advocate AWS CDK for one reason: it allows us to use Typescript (or other languages) which is less of a blocker for new contributors in frontend. It is verbose but it does a lot of the weight lifting for you and is extremely flexible as…

S3 stands for Simple Storage Service. It is indeed simple to use but it has a lot of features that go beyond the word “simple”. It has some quite interesting features once it comes to static websites which is, in short, hosting a few assets somewhere which will be downloaded…

At Homeday we are responsible for maintaining our main website: http://www.homeday.de. There are a few reasons for that but it is our main entry point to get new customers. Until earlier this year we used a CMS called Kirby which is PHP-based and gives you a lot of flexibility. Quoting…

I decided to write this article to sum up a struggle of mine. We’ve started a new project in the company, Prettier was set up, ESLint was set up and at some point, we added Typescript. By the end, Typescript was also set up. CI was linting, commit hooks were…

Almost all of us love Slack applications and BOTs that automate something. It could be from an alert, so you’re notified as soon as a problem happens, or just a random good morning GIF. In this short tutorial, I would like to go through the process of creating a GitHub…

Most of us have faced it: build a custom input component. There are multiple reasons behind it but in general, it has custom styles and we should be able to reuse it. Although it might sound simple it has some gotchas and from time to time we end up going…

Every quarter at Homeday we have something called PEW. PEW stands for Product Engineering Week, which translates to a week where you cancel all your meetings and work on a topic you would like to explore. It can be done in groups or alone, it is up to you. Last…

This is the first time I write a series of articles. …

Vue 3 is coming with a some exciting new features. Composition API is the hottest one at the moment but there are others that excite me as much as it. One of those new features is called Suspense and it really excites me about the benefits it brings. You might…