Why do I think of Makefiles now? Simply because I opened a 3 months old project and it took me 10 minutes to figure out how to build it. Yes, I could have written a README, but it was a home project (I know I should have…).
Blog posts
Mitigating CSS gradient banding
2016-09-16
While working on a design that included a gradient, I noticed banding when the gradient was rendered by the browser.
Notes about localization
2016-08-12
Living in a multilingual country, nearly all apps I make are localized.
At least in french and english, but also often german. Having to deal with 3 languages on all my apps wasn’t always easy.
In this article I share some experience and thoughts about localization.
Keeping an ordered collection in PostgreSQL
2016-08-10
I’m hitting an issue I’m quite sure a thousand developers encountered before me: how to keep an ordered collection in an SQL database.
Keeping an ordered collection seems trivial at first, but can soon become quite complicated.
Lets summarize: what we have is a table A, referencing a table B via a foreign key, and we want to keep the B rows belonging to A sorted.