#web-development
8 posts
2026 - February
2 posts2017 - August
1 post2016 - July
1 post2015 - November
1 post2008 - February
1 post2008 - January
1 post2006 - April
1 post2026 - February
2 postsFrontend Without a Framework | Behind the Scenes of The M.Akita Chronicles
How I built a modern, responsive, dark-mode, email-compatible, multi-platform frontend for The M.Akita Chronicles without a single line of JavaScript framework.
Web Scraping in 2026 | Behind the Scenes of The M.Akita Chronicles
How I went from a four-line HTTP GET to packing a full Chromium into Docker just to read the news for my newsletter in 2026.
2017 - August
1 postWhy it is just lazy to bad-mouth Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails is neither dead nor the market leader anymore. Its legacy helped define the web's status quo, from Git and continuous testing to the cloud, continuous deployment, and metrics.
2016 - July
1 postUpdating my Old Posts on Uploads
I updated my upload recommendations: Cloudinary with Attachinary simplifies direct upload and image processing, while a CDN like CloudFront should serve assets from S3.
2015 - November
1 postPhoenix "15 Minute Blog" comparison to Ruby on Rails
I compare a blog with nested resources in Phoenix and Rails, from Mix through ExUnit. Phoenix is more explicit and promising for concurrent microservices, but still doesn’t replace the Rails ecosystem.
2008 - February
1 postChatting with Scott Hanselman
Scott Hanselman talks about his career, diabetes, and Microsoft tools. He sees ASP.NET MVC as a testable alternative to WebForms and attributes most Vista crashes to third-party drivers.
2008 - January
1 postChatting with Adrian Holovaty
Adrian Holovaty explains how demands from news sites led to Django and its high-level abstractions, such as site admin and Databrowse, while also discussing data and EveryBlock.
2006 - April
1 postRails Manifesto
The author presents Rails as an agile alternative to J2EE’s complexity, built on DRY and Convention over Configuration. The idea is to make Web applications simple and easy to adapt.