I recently published and shared with the world my first real open-source project. It brought some traffic to its Github page and some people even starred it. This made me super happy, knowing that other people find my project useful or interesting enough to give it a star....
Recently I’ve encountered an unpleasant situation on one of the websites I manage. I randomly opened it only to find out it wasn’t working. Unfortunately, it was not a very important website, so no harm was done but the problem was that I didn’t know for how long it had been down....
After a couple of months since the last release, here I am again, announcing a new updated version of Novus - v0.0.5. This version includes new features and minor enhancements, but most importantly, it introduces the trust command—something I have wanted to have since the very beginning....
When writing software, sometimes it is necessary to run shell commands that require sudo privileges. This can happen, for instance, when building a CLI tool that needs to write into protected filesystem directories or modify certain files....
Ever since releasing the first version of the binary, I knew there were more things I wanted to add and improve in Novus. There have been a couple of smaller releases since then, but it was only bug fixes I stumbled across while using the binary....
As developers, we often need to use many different programs for our job. There are various ways to install these applications, one of the most popular being Homebrew. It is advertised as “the missing package manager for macOS” (and Linux) and it certainly does a great job there....
Novus is a tiny command-line utility designed to enhance local web development. It consists of several tools to provide production-like web URLs on your local machine in a matter of seconds....
A few months ago I was hanging my laundry after it stayed in the washing machine for half a day before I remembered I had forgotten to take it out....
Recently I was working on a project and I needed to add an SSL certificate for the API service. Normally you would use Let’s Encrypt or some other certificate authority after deploying the service....
I just spent four hours debugging a really weird issue… I’m gonna write it up here as a reminder for my future self, and maybe you’ll find it useful too....