About a week ago, Rich Harris posted a brutal takedown of Web Components, and parts of it really stayed with me. Rich is — among a host of other inventions — the creator of Svelte, a futuristic compiled frontend framework, and a lot of his...
I’ve been working as a consultant for over fifteen years. I’ve seen tectonic shifts in browsers, the rise of MVC frameworks and the subsequent cult of Functional Programming, and I’ve seen so, so many tech stacks come and go. READMORE I’ve...
Ruby on Rails has really good static translation support through I18n but if you need to store your dynamic content in multiple locale versions there’s no built-in support in Rails. So what do you do? As always it depends on your use case...
Therese Johansson and Julia Friberg study the last semester of the master program Interaction Design and Technologies at Chalmers. Therese works, outside of studying, as a designer at Varvet and has been for a year. Julia has just started...
Making your Android application barcode aware should be easy! Luckily it is using Google Play services and the Mobile Vision APIs. It allows you to scan barcodes (e.g. QR codes) quickly and locally (making it really fast!) with very...
I have a close relationship to moose. Of all the good things this has brought me in life, one that really stands out is that it gave me my current job as a designer here at Elabs. This makes me thankful to moose, and I want to give something...
This blog post aims to lay out a simple and concrete strategy for handling sensitive data in your Ruby On Rails applications, and to explain the importance of such a strategy.
Even if your project...
This post was originally published on the Elabs blog, before Elabs and Varvet joined forces.
Rails provides great tools for working with time zones but there’s still a lot of things that can go wrong. This blog post aims to shed some...
Challenges for Designers and Developers in Cross-Functional Teams
Introducing Serial, a light-weight no-magic serialization library (for Ruby, and Rails)
How to annoy all moose a little less (by building accessible websites)