A closer look at date-fns
Published: 8. January 2018 • Updated: 22. August 2019 • javascript
A closer look at the date-fns date/time library. Compare it with Moment.js and look at a few examples.
Published: 8. January 2018 • Updated: 22. August 2019 • javascript
A closer look at the date-fns date/time library. Compare it with Moment.js and look at a few examples.
Published: 9. January 2018 • pwa, javascript
Explore the provided methods of the Cache API, which is primarily used in Service Workers to cache assets but can be used anywhere as a general-purpose cache.
Published: 6. January 2018 • Updated: 1. December 2018 • ionic, ionic, javascript
How to use arbitrary SVG icons in Ionic
Published: 12. January 2018 • database, javascript
In this blog post, I give you an overview of Dexie, a minimalistic wrapper library for IndexedDB. Write simpler and more concise IndexedDB code with Dexie.
Published: 13. January 2018 • Updated: 31. October 2021 • java, javascript
An example project that integrates a front end JavaScript application with the Parcel bundler and a Spring Boot application built with Maven into one project and ultimately create one executable JAR.
Published: 15. January 2018 • Updated: 2. February 2023 • javascript, selfhost
A short tutorial on how to self-host Polyfill.io on Ubuntu
Published: 9. January 2018 • Updated: 7. December 2018 • java, javascript, pwa, spring
In this blog post, I show you how you can send push messages from a Spring Boot application over Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) to connected clients with the Web Push API. The Push API is part of the Service Worker specification and does not depend on any native plugins.
Published: 12. January 2018 • Updated: 3. December 2018 • database, javascript, ionic
In this blog post I present a way to use Dexie in a TypeScript application
Published: 26. February 2018 • java
How to consume Server-sent events in a Java application.
Published: 14. February 2018 • javascript
Two examples of how you can conditionally load polyfills in a JavaScript application
Published: 27. February 2018 • java, javascript
Writing human-readable regular expressions with the VerbalExpression library
Published: 28. February 2018 • Updated: 31. October 2021 • java, javascript
In this blog post, we create a simple polling application with Java and JavaScript and send real-time updates with server-sent events.
Published: 4. February 2018 • Updated: 5. February 2018 • mongodb, java, database
A brief overview of capped collections in MongoDB and how to access them from Java
Published: 5. February 2018 • database, mongodb, java
A brief introduction to time to live indexes in MongoDB and how to access them from Java
Published: 1. March 2018 • Updated: 11. March 2023 • java
In this blog post, we're going to create Java applications that download and search the "Have I Been Pwned?" password list with over 840 million passwords.
Published: 3. May 2018 • java, javascript
In this blog post, I present four examples of how you can implement password checks for commonly used or compromised passwords.
Published: 1. May 2018 • java
How a Java server application can complete the server-to-server OAuth 2.0 flow and access a Google service
Published: 26. June 2018 • pwa, javascript, java, spring, ionic
This blog post takes a closer look at the Background Sync API, part of the service worker implementation, and presents an example that uses Background Sync to synchronize data between an Ionic web application and a Spring Boot server application.
Published: 10. June 2018 • Updated: 4. February 2022 • linux
How to install a backup job that runs daily and sends files to Amazon S3
Published: 10. June 2018 • linux
A quick introduction to the free Windows SSH client Putty. How you can connect to an SSH server and how to set up public/private key authentication.
Published: 12. June 2018 • selfhost
In this tutorial, we look at SparkleShare, a self-hosted, instant, and secure file synchronization service.
Published: 10. June 2018 • Updated: 3. February 2022 • selfhost
In this tutorial, I show you how to self-host a Git server with Gitea
Published: 16. June 2018 • linux, selfhost
In this tutorial, I present two ways to send emails from your self-hosted Linux server. A configuration with SSMTP that relies on a 3rd party mail server and an example with exim4, a self-hosted SMTP server.
Published: 10. June 2018 • linux, selfhost
A description of initial configuration steps after renting a new VPS server
Published: 22. June 2018 • Updated: 30. March 2020 • pwa, javascript
This tutorial describes how to integrate a service worker, written with the Workbox library, into an Angular application.
Published: 10. July 2018 • Updated: 1. February 2022 • selfhost
In this article, I show you how to self-host TileServerGL, an open-source tile server
Published: 5. September 2018 • Updated: 11. November 2024 • javascript
The Beacon API in the browser can be used to transfer data to a server. Its primary use case is to send analytics data during the unload event of a web page. In this blog post, we're going to look at the API and create some examples that use the Beacon API to send data to a server.
Published: 3. September 2018 • javascript
A closer look at the ES2020 numeric primitive BigInt
Published: 5. October 2018 • javascript
How to install a global error handler in an Angular application and send error reports to a back end. The blog post shows you how to collect error reports while the application is offline and send them to a back end as soon as the device is back online.
Published: 4. October 2018 • java, javascript
Converting text from a web application into speech with Google Cloud Text-to-Speech
Published: 11. October 2018 • linux
Installing WireGuard, a simple, fast, and modern VPN, on an Amazon Lightsail virtual server and connecting an Android mobile device.
Published: 9. December 2018 • pwa, javascript, ionic
In this blog post, we look at a way to use the Background Sync API together with Angular's service worker. Or, in general, how to add custom service worker code to a generated Angular service worker.
Published: 11. December 2018 • java, spring, ionic, javascript
This blog post shows you a way to upload pictures from a web application to Google Cloud Storage and run them through Google Cloud Vision. The application uses Ionic for the front end and Spring Boot for the back end. It utilizes signed URLs for permitting the client to upload pictures directly from the web application to Google Cloud Storage
Published: 12. December 2018 • selfhost
In this article, we're going to self-host Bitwarden, an open-source password management solution, and install it on an Ubuntu 20.04 server.
Published: 23. December 2018 • java, javascript
Creating a simple feedforward neural network in Java and JavaScript, based on the algorithms of Tariq Rashid's book "Make Your Own Neural Network"