Using vpn-slice with OpenConnect for Split Tunneling — In this new world of global remote-work most of us are connecting to corporate VPNs the entire day to access internal servers while accessing resources on internet and jumping into video calls. A usual VPN configuration routes all the network connections through the VPN tunnel, dramatically slowing down connection to…

How to host a Minecraft server to connect/play from iOS/Android apps — My 6 years old son recently got into the Minecraft world, and I like to think that playing games like Minecraft, offer a bevy of educational benefits because it involve coding, collaboration, and participation with peers. …

Updated guide (2020) — If you have been using Cisco AnyConnect VPN client in Mac for a while probably you have the impression that is not the best tool (and you are not alone). …

In the current times we are using Zoom or Bluejeans a lot, if you are using Chrome and you’re tired of closing the tabs opened when you click in a Zoom or Bluejeans link I made a simple Bluejeans/Zoom Closer Chrome extension that automatically closes those tabs. If for any…

In StreetEasy we process tons of images that brokers and agents send us about their listings, recently we started getting the following error when we were processing images for few specific domains: OpenUri error for url - https://***.com/my-listing.jpg :: OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError, SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=error: sslv3 alert handshake failure The errors…

Because I’m a huge fan of dockerizing all of my development environments, I don’t want to install node, npm (or yarn), and create-react-app in my machine, not even for generating a create-react-app scaffold. For that reason I created a simple docker image, that does only one thing, installs create-react-app and generates a create-react-app scaffold. Usage $ docker run --rm -v $PWD:/app edgargonzalez/create-react-app my-app

If you are joining a team, or have new folks join yours, onboarding is crucial. During this period, you must share expectations and build trust. A useful technique to kickstart this process, that has been recently adopted by Engineering Managers across the industry, is to create and share Manager READMEs…

Because I also use Sublime Text to take notes, write PR reviews in Github, etc, I end having a lot of temp untitled docs. Something that I found useful was to configure Sublime Text to use Markdown as the default language for new documents, in this way all the untitled docs will default to Markdown. Below is the script I’m using, if you want to use it, just add it in your Sublime Text Packages/User directory

There are use cases in which you don’t want to have duplicate Sidekiq jobs running, to address this, Sidekiq has a unique jobs feature. Recently we released some recurring jobs with the unique job feature, and started experiencing random issues after a new deploy happened, the job was not…