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Recently I ran into some issues with JavaScript testing in one of our projects. Since I had a hard time figuring out the solution and the internet didn’t help me enough, I thought I’d share my solution in a blogpost.

The past couple of months we at Egeniq had been working on the brand new Android TV app for Pathé Thuis, a video-on-demand service in the Netherlands, and now that it is finally available on Google…

Last week I was building a console command on top of Laravel that could be running for a long time. It was a long-running process that runs a queue worker. It reads from a queue, does some processing…

What is Serverless? It’s a toolkit that helps you deploy and operate serverless architectures to various cloud platforms like AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform. There are quite a few ways to…

Here’s a useful command that I’ve been using for a while. It generates a changelog, based on all merge commits since the latest release was tagged. This will give you the latest tag name, eg: 1.24.3…

I don’t care too much about containers. They’re just a means to an end. What I really care about is documenting and versioning my infrastructure. Docker, especially with Compose, is practically…

For the majority of my career I’ve been working remote part-time. It was always considered a special treatment, and with most employers it took a lot of effort to earn. Quite honestly, most of the…

For one of our customers, we were asked to write an application, which would be used by poultry farmers in African countries to compute an optimal feeding recipe.

Coming up with good estimates in software development is almost never an easy task. Especially when working in an Agile development environment, it can be rather difficult to give a proper indication…