Rico Sta. Cruz @rstacruz
I am a web developer helping make the world a better place through JavaScript, Ruby, and UI design.
Latest posts
Issue 003: Svelte is now ready for production
2m read Dec 2022Issue 002: Is Deno faster than Node.js?
2m read Dec 2022Issue 001: Rewrite that messy package.json
Web Builders Digest — Issue 1.
2m read Nov 2022A quickdive into Svelte
I've been learning Svelte. Here are my notes as I learned it!
3m read Aug 2022JavaScript in Rails 7
Frontend in Rails will be very different from Rails 6.
4m read June 2022Vitest review: is it better than Jest?
I've always reached out to Jest for any JavaScript testing, but I think it's time to rethink that.
3m read Apr 2022Public CDN's aren't useful anymore
3m read Apr 2022Ruby interactors: a review
I've been playing with the Ruby community's interactor pattern and found a few issues.
5m read Dec 2021Gotcha: Rails params aren't always strings
In Rails, if you assume params[:key] is always a string, you might be making your app insecure!
2m read Nov 2021I built a wireless split keyboard
I recently built a compact split keyboard that works over Bluetooth.
10m read Nov 2021Feature flags: an alternative to branches
5m read Sept 2021TypeScript's Omit, explained
It will remove fields from a given object type. It's useful in making subsets of an object type.
1m read June 2021Setting up Jest with ESM
Here are some different ways on how to set up Jest to support ES modules.
1m read Apr 2021