Posts by Ethan Fertsch
Gnarly News February 2023
The software development landscape is constantly changing. As a software consultancy, it’s our responsibility to keep our finger on the pulse of the industry. Here are some headlines that caught our attention recently. Netlify Acquires Gatsby In the Gnarly News for November 2022, we expressed our astonishment that Shopify had acquired Remix. This month we…
Read MoreGnarly Learnings from February 2023
We love reading, watching, and listening in order to keep our skills sharp and our perspectives fresh. Here are some of the resources we learned from this month. Improved Absolute URL Detection in React Router Link Component The Link component is an important aspect of React Router’s tooling, but historically we have had to fall…
Read MorePlaybook for a Smooth Launch
Recently, I was upgrading the core functionality of a Shopify app that we built for a client. The nature of this app required the majority of the changes to be tested in the production environment. While this wasn’t ideal, sometimes it’s just the way the cookie crumbles. Naturally, this introduced a certain amount of anxiety…
Read MoreGnarly News January 2023
The software development landscape is constantly changing. As a software consultancy, it’s our responsibility to keep our finger on the pulse of the industry. Here are some headlines that caught our attention recently. React Native 0.71 Released We’ve had our eyes on the various release candidates for a few months and we were stoked with…
Read MoreGnarly Learnings from January 2023
We love reading, watching, and listening in order to keep our skills sharp and our perspectives fresh. Here are some of the resources we learned from this month. bin/rails notes Code comments are a pretty controversial topic but if you’re a rails developer and you’re in favor of them you should definitely check out bin/rails…
Read MoreGnarly News December 2022
The software development landscape is constantly changing. As a software consultancy, it’s our responsibility to keep our finger on the pulse of the industry. Here are some headlines that caught our attention recently. Ruby 3.2.0 RC 1 Released We’re all eagerly awaiting the seasonal gift of a new Ruby version; this year it’s 3.2. Earlier…
Read MoreGnarly Learnings from December 2022
We love reading, watching, and listening in order to keep our skills sharp and our perspectives fresh. Here are some of the resources we learned from this month. OWASP Top Ten It’s important to stay sharp when it comes to online security. The Open Web Application Security Project, or OWASP, is a non-profit organization dedicated…
Read MoreGnarly News November 2022
The software development landscape is constantly changing. As a software consultancy, it’s our responsibility to keep our finger on the pulse of the industry. Here are some headlines that caught our attention recently. Vercel Releases Next.js 13 Next.js Conf delivered an exciting new version this year – Next.js 13. This version “lays the foundations…
Read MoreGnarly Learnings from November 2022
We love reading, watching, and listening in order to keep our skills sharp and our perspectives fresh. Here are some of the resources we learned from this month. Embedding with Sidekiq 7.0 Mike Perham, the creator of Sidekiq, wrote a blog post discussing one of the features of the newly released Sidekiq 7.0: embedding! Prior…
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