The missing bit

Don’t leave password around in SPA

There is one thing I have noticed with SPA (single page app) login forms. Many of them keep the password in memory. And when I say in memory, I don’t mean as freed() memory which may require freezing your PC to access, I mean as actual living object within the…

Leaving macOS, part 4: The landing setup

So, I have been testing my current setup for long enough to share it.

TL;DR: Install Windows 10, cygwin X11, ssh to Linux and run Linux app through the X11 server.

Windows 10

Leaving macOS, part 3: OS Candidates

This serie of articles is a combinaison of telling my life, rants and other pointless stories. You have been warned!

There are mostly three candidates here.

• Windows
• Linux

Leaving macOS, part 1: Motivations

This serie of articles is a combinaison of telling my life, rants and other pointless stories. You have been warned!

I’ve been using a Mac since the Macintosh SE 30. I was very young at the time, and I don’t remember it very well. Also, I…

Selecting virtual field in Ecto

In you Ecto model, you might have some virtual fields that needs to be computed when you select from your database.

The select option of from will override the whole set of returned fields. Which means if you do something like:

Template literals in Typescript

It might be common knowledge, but I just discovered that Typescript was supporting JavaScript template literals.

Also called string interpolation sometimes, it let you do something like:

name = "John"