Published inBetter Programming·PinnedBuild Your Own useTranslation Hook With Next.jsThis is how I built my website — If you have ever worked on localization for a React application then you probably know react-18next that is the standard way to solve this kind of problems. On the other hand, for Next.js we can use next-translate which has similar concepts. I found out about this library while I was…Nextjs4 min readNextjs4 min read
PinnedThings I learned in 2021 as a software developerAaaaaand it’s gone, bye bye 2021 👋, welcome to 2022! 🎉 If you have already read some of my posts you may know that I’m an Italian software developer who is working mostly with Ruby and Javascript. The last year has been rough for me: I tried to learn from…Learning4 min readLearning4 min read
PinnedDeveloping softwares requires good soft skillsI consider myself a very introverted person, a passionate developer, and at the same time a perfectionist. I can’t say I spent my childhood coding on a Commodore64 to develop a fun videogame while writing the game engine all by myself, because I did not. I was born in 1996…Software Development5 min readSoftware Development5 min read
PinnedEnchant your Ruby experience with these Visual Studio Code extensionsA few months ago, in March, I started a very exciting journey in Extendi as a Ruby backend developer, it was my first experience with Ruby and I felt so overwhelmed with the ecosystem and the codebase 😵. As an ex Java developer, I was already used to IntelliJ so…Ruby6 min readRuby6 min read
PinnedHow to deploy a React and ExpressJS monorepository to HerokuHi everyone, this is the first time I write here and today I’d like to share my experience about deploying a Single Page Application to Heroku, however this is not a simple case, because my application is built on top of React, ExpressJS and Yarn Workspaces to fit everything in…React6 min readReact6 min read
Published inBetter Programming·May 9, 2022A Small Tip to Reduce Your Docker Images Size by Almost HalfOptimize your Docker images — Today I want to explain a small tip I recently found out to reduce the Docker images size, in my case I was able to reduce the size by half! Let’s assume that you are working with a language like Ruby or Python, even if these languages are not compiled…Docker3 min readDocker3 min read
