Preparation Choose a genre you like and prepare 5 songs from that genre for the upcoming tasks. Form & Instrumentation Tune in your 5 songs from the preparation and make notes about their form. What sections are there in this genre? What is the general length (in time) of songs? Is there a climax…

In this story I will explain how to take app screenshots easily using Protractor and a headless chrome instance. Set up I assume you have an Angular app set up and running. In my case I was using Ionic, a sophisticated mobile app framework supporting Angular and cordova. We will use the…

There are many guides out there which show you how to set up Google Analytics with Rails 5+. Many of them neglect current best practices, such as Content Security Policies. In this story I will describe a secure and up-to-date way of setting up Google Analytics. Prerequisites I assume you have…

Angular offers excellent functionality in its router, including resolvers to load data and easily accessing path and query params. However the way these are used in the documentation we typically lose TypeScript’s type-safety. A way to win it back is to use computed property types and enums. Traditionally we write…

Angular’s Resolvers are a nice, declarative way of getting data into your components. However when used as described in the Angular guide they quickly stretch their limits. We suggest a simple and elegant way on how to make resolvers more flexible including the ability to respond to new data (e.g…

Often times a different set of environment variables is needed when executing jobs in Gitlab CI depending on the branch we are on. The following is a real life example for the website of our shift scheduling software at tiftapp.com. We build our website with Hugo and deploy it to…