A boat stuck in the Suez Canal
Back in 2021 the container ship “Ever given” became stuck in the Suez Canal, as many other people I was occasionally checking in on what was happening with Interest. The implications for global trade were quite big. While doing this I came upon a blog by someone who was keeping a careful log of what was happening. It was perfect for me as I wouldn’t have to search across different sources for casual “boat is stuck” news. On this blog I noticed a little badge at the bottom saying “Simple Analytics” just like you see on my blog on the bottom left right now. It immediately piqued my interest, I’m a big proponent of getting rid of Google analytics so I like reading about any possible alternatives. After reading their website and seeing they are based in the Netherlands I knew I wanted to use it sometime in the future so I bookmarked it for when the time came.
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Pretty code screenshots
Over the past few years I’ve seen a fair share of posts around the internet which attempt to copy paste or screenshot some code directly from an editor and show it. Often this goes completely wrong, either the quality of the image is bad, the formatting looks ugly or there’s unneeded information in the screenshot!
This remains one of my pet peeves which I cannot do much about but atleast I can write a post about a very cool tool to help with prettifying any necessary code related screenshots.
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Web development?
When I was originally thinking about a blog I wasn’t really interested in doing the building and design of the website myself myself, I wanted something functional straight out of the gate.
I had heard of static website generators before and they seemed like the right choice for a simple blog. I don’t need any fancy javascript libraries to write things down, I want it to be fast but still look presentable of course.
My initial search landed me on various websites listing many different static website generator applications, way more than I initially expected.
Due to having recently done a hobby project in Python (Might write about that another time..) I landed on the static site generated called Pelican.
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REST API Design
In this post I will gather any interesting links regarding API design and such.
- https://restcookbook.com/
- https://www.infoq.com/articles/webber-rest-workflow/ (Bit old but mostly still relevant)
- https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/03/02/best-practices-for-rest-api-design/
- https://cloud.google.com/apis/design/
Why OAuth2?
Over the past year I’ve had the chance to work a lot more within the IAM/CIAM space. I already knew my way around basic OAuth2 flows for my API tests but not quite enough to do fully elaborate testing of a platform. In light of this I went searching for some good sources of information around this subject. Below I will share some of my findings, hopefully they will help others as much as they did for me.
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Introduction
In the integration world there are many low(ish) code solutions, you might at first not think about code reviews as much because of this but I beg to differ.
Progressing through different projects with these tools there is a lot less drag and drop and actually a lot more “coding” although not in the traditional programming sense but more fitting different puzzle pieces together. A little more abstract usually with XML or the like. But just like regular programming this abstracted code can still get bloated, messy and hard to maintain without prior knowledge.
Noticing possible improvements on this front, I wanted to do some research to improve our team’s code review practices as I felt like we could do a better job at maintaining code that was easy to read for everyone as well as use it to learn more from eachother. This resulted into me diving down a few rabbit holes which ended up being quite interesting. In this post you will find the document I wrote as a base for our code reviews.
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