I am a web developer working mostly with Rails these days with some React/React Native sprinkled in.https://owaiskhan.me/https://owaiskhan.me/post/formatting-and-linting-erb-files-with-zed/https://owaiskhan.me/post/formatting-and-linting-erb-files-with-zed/I've been using Zed lately and liking it a lot. It's very performant, has a much better Vim experience, and also comes with good defaults. One place where it is not there yet is formatting ERB files. But there's a simple way to fix that.Sun, 11 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://owaiskhan.me/post/how-to-resolve-test-domain-across-local-network/https://owaiskhan.me/post/how-to-resolve-test-domain-across-local-network/Developing web apps with HTTPs using .test domain can get painful if you want to access them from another device, even if the device is on your local network.But there's a simple solution.Sun, 21 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://owaiskhan.me/post/improve-ci-build-time-and-reduce-cost/https://owaiskhan.me/post/improve-ci-build-time-and-reduce-cost/If you like fast CI builds, hate having to wait for an eternity for CI to complete a build after you open a PR, and love reducing infra costs, read on.Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://owaiskhan.me/post/merging-html-attributes-with-rails/https://owaiskhan.me/post/merging-html-attributes-with-rails/I am usually annoyed when I have to merge HTML attributes coming from multiple sources (e.g you're writing a partial that can optionally accept some data attributes, but the partial itself defines some data attributes). Here's a simple helper/gem to fix that annoyance.Sat, 16 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://owaiskhan.me/post/using-tabler-icons-with-rails/https://owaiskhan.me/post/using-tabler-icons-with-rails/Tabler Icons includes over 4950+ beautiful icons. Learn how to use any icon from that huge set in a Rails app using a simple gem.Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://owaiskhan.me/post/improving-performance-in-development-on-a-big-rails-app/https://owaiskhan.me/post/improving-performance-in-development-on-a-big-rails-app/Slow requests in development are painful. They lead to slower feedback loops and decrease productivity. If you are working on a big Rails app, and you're encountering slow requests, especially after you make a change, there might be a simple way to make things fastSun, 18 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://owaiskhan.me/post/loading-stimulus-contorllers-on-demand-in-rails-with-vite/https://owaiskhan.me/post/loading-stimulus-contorllers-on-demand-in-rails-with-vite/Learn how to automatically load stimulus controllers from your rails app but only if they are required on a page. We'll handle loading them in a way that they're already in the head tag when the page is rendered. Especially useful for huge apps with tons of controllers.Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://owaiskhan.me/post/simple-rails-engine-manage-user-preference-settings-feature-flags/https://owaiskhan.me/post/simple-rails-engine-manage-user-preference-settings-feature-flags/Preflex allows you to manage preferences like user settings/feature flags/etc. with ease. Just install the gem, define preferences and use it. Also has support for reading/writing values from the client-side using JavaScript.Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://owaiskhan.me/post/enforce-quote-style-html-attributes-erb-lint/https://owaiskhan.me/post/enforce-quote-style-html-attributes-erb-lint/Use a custom linter to enforce a particular single/double quotes on your *.html.erb files (with auto-correction) using erb-lint.Sat, 23 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://owaiskhan.me/post/using-treact-components-custom-react-app/https://owaiskhan.me/post/using-treact-components-custom-react-app/Treact is a set of free React Components & Templates for building landing/marketing pages. Learn how you can configure your React App to use these components.Sun, 11 Sep 2022 15:57:52 GMThttps://owaiskhan.me/post/free-tailwindcss-react-ui-kit/https://owaiskhan.me/post/free-tailwindcss-react-ui-kit/A free template starter pack built with React, TailwindCSS using twin.macro and styled-components with 52 component blocks, 7 prebuilt landing pages and 8 inner pages.Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://owaiskhan.me/post/detecting-spun-content-programmatically/https://owaiskhan.me/post/detecting-spun-content-programmatically/Spun content is content that is computer generated by replacing words of human written articles with their synonyms. This articles describes how to detect and classify content as spun/meaningless using a simple n-gram analysis technique.Sat, 21 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT