Napoleon is supposed to have said, Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. People tend to unconsciously recognize how powerful the activity called reading is. For almost 600 years now, the printed book, and its spiritual successor the eBook have
gitlab
Our goal was to reward team members for participating in code reviews. During GitLab Integration, customers had to manually create webhooks for all projects and had to set up OAuth. To make things easier, we used a series of GitLab APIs. The automation eased the integration process.
Introduction WebAssembly is a technology to make code execution of languages like C, C++, Go, Rust, etc in the browser. This is achieved by creating a binary web assembly file. This helps our programs to reach native-level performance. We have an internal collaborative API client Lama2, a CLI tool implemented
Continuously Increasing Code Coverage as a Team At Hexmos, our team is continually improving our application, Hexmos Feedback. Hexmos Feedback tailors to meet the needs of employees who value regular, meaningful feedback, empowering the team to effortlessly stay motivated. A significant challenge in our software is that certain features occasionally
"The characteristic of distractions is that they are many. But the characteristic of concentration is that it is one" In this article, I aim to explain my current understanding of the human phenomenon often known as "mental concentration". Consider it as my present understanding of the
golang
Dive into our journey at Hexmos, where we bridged Lama2 with VSCode using Golang's LSP. From challenges to insights, we're excited to share it all! 🦙🚀.
Introduction Recently, I was exploring Hexmos' infrastructure, trying to learn all the steps involved in loading up the Feedback app in the browser. During my investigation of a packet's path to the server and analysis of the Nginx configuration file that governs how the web server handles
Discussing the challenges we faced with the Web Editor on the Ghost blogging platform that led us to abandon its use and create a CLI tool called 'glee.
Responsiveness and Browser Compatibility Problem A well-made website should be compatible with multiple screens and browsers. Two major problems that we encountered while building webpages are Screen Responsiveness and Browser compatibility. Devices can come in a wide range of screen sizes and resolutions from small smartphones to large desktop monitors.
Problem: Inconsistent code formatting across different contributors makes code reviews tedious and harms readability. Solution: Implement Prettier, Husky, and lint-staged to automatically format code with each git commit. Benefits: 1. No more "format-fighting" between contributors – consistency is king! 2. Streamlined reviews – with automated styling, dive straight into the
The Quality Monitoring Problem Websites (or apps) start just fine: they are fast, lightweight, and have good aesthetics. Over time though, they degrade: the website becomes slow and bulky, and the design goes off the rails. Degradation often stems from haphazard features, plugins, and content accumulation. Degradation is almost unnoticeable
The Employee Onboarding Problem At Hexmos, we faced a significant challenge when onboarding new software engineering interns. The process of integrating them into our team and systems was very demanding. Typically, one or two senior developers would spend a significant amount of time helping interns install the many tools, packages,