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When I first arrived at Theodo, my whole developer world was shaken. I used to work in a robotics company, developing in C++ and Python with a Ubuntu machine, deploying on a Debian environment. And within a week, I was…

Have you ever accidentally run a blocking migration on your Postgres database? Here's how to fix it in under 1 minute: First, connect to your database instance. Now, run the query: SELECT pid, query_start, query FROM pg_stat_activity This will return a table listing…

What is Hammerspoon and what can it do for me? How often have you wanted a little something extra out of macOS, or it's desktop environment, but felt intimidated digging into the unwieldy system APIs? Well, fret no more! Today we will…

Having independent functional tests is a good practice recommended by many developers. It allows you save a great deal of time; and it is well known, time is money! Why If your tests are not independent, it means that the execution of…

As a web developer you may have already worked on a project where you had a single web application that was used by several different clients. The app would use a single code base but then it would need to…

Smart mirrors are straight from science fiction but it turns out that building your own smart mirror isnt just science fiction or Tom Cruise's favorite activity. Its actually easy to build your own version... and I will show you how. I…

Real-time has opened new opportunities in web applications.By allowing users to get access to data as soon as it’s available, it provides them a better experience.Thanks to real-time, you can edit documents collaboratively, play online with your friends, know exactly…

A postman, or letter carrier (in American English), sometimes colloquially known as a postie, is an employee of a post office or postal service, who delivers mail and parcel post to residences and businesses. Postman is also the name of…

Scraping a website means extracting data from a website in a usable way.The ultimate goal when scraping a website is to use the extracted data to build something else. In this article, I will show you how to extract the content…

A few years ago Amazon came out with the Amazon Dash Button, a small internet connected button that can be used to reorder common household items. Such a small, cheap and well-made internet connected button seems like a godsend for…