This website has gotten many shapes and forms, in both contents and design. I’ve started from a custom PHP CMS (good ol’ PHP3 era), and went to the WordPress bandwagon, and then back to a custom hand made version. When I went back to own my own code and content, I decided that having a CMS or blog engine wasn’t worth the effort. I looked at static websites generators (SSG), and made the choice of using Jekyll. I was a...

Occasionally, I find myself in need for a basic HTTP server that will render some static content (HTML, CSS, images,..), no complex installation, only build and launch. As I am a huge Ruby fan, I was wondering how can I achieve this in the simplest way possible with plain Ruby. What we will build A basic HTTP server, serving a static HTML file. The Install process should be as small as possible, and launching the server should be fast...

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...