I admit it, this title is a little clickbaity. Have you tried to setup SLL for your local dev environment lately? Does it make you want to bang your head against a wall? Then this article might be for you, I battle tested this on different laptops, and it served me well. Let’s be clear, this is superfluous, and most of the times it’s unnecessary. You can probably live without using SSL/HTTPS for your local dev, but sometimes you may...

In the wonderful world of programming, you may have heard about this new shiny language called Rust. It is an open-source systems programming language that focuses on speed, memory safety, and parallelism. It allows you to do low-level programming à la C/C++. You might have heard about it in the context of Web Assembly. Rust is capable to compile WASM applications, you can find a wide variety of use cases on the Web Assembly FAQ. It is also...

Here is a usefull collection of git commands that I keep coming back to, it saved me countless times when I was in tricky situations. I have finally decided to compile them here, I hope it can help you too! Table of Contents Rename a local branch Delete a remote tag Check out a remote branch List all the files in a commit Remove files from a commit Undo a git...

Documentaton is a big part of a project, more critical if you need to hand off the details of your API to multiple third parties that will interact with it. Here you will lean how to deploy Slate, the API documentation generator based on Middleman, on Heroku, and how to configure it to generate the static HTML files with each commit on a repository. Table of Contents Some context Set up Slate locally...