Michiel Sikkes - Michiel Sikkes

Tech

My take on NFTs: expensive JPEGs and so much more

This is a blog post of various thoughts notes from the past few weeks when diving into NFTs.

Founding

I have a new side-project and it's called ClubCard

Have fun following me along!

Making

Rails 6, TailwindCSS, TailwindUI, and Stimulus New App Guide (November 2020)

Get started quickly a new Rails 6 app with TailwindCSS, Stimulus included. Follow these instructions and commands.

Building Me

New book: Demand-Side Sales by Bob Moesta

This book is about just that: Selling products without doing "sales".

Operating

Our deployment strategy for on-premise customers (in China)

Last year (2019), one of our customers asked if it was possible to run our full recurring commerce platform to sell product subscriptions in China. Hosting something in China is not as straightforward as hosting something for the rest of the world. This article explains how we got it done.

Making

Remove flickering flash messages on Turbolinks

If you're using Turbolinks, and flash messages in your Rails app, then this might come in handy. You might have seen flickering flash messages on your pages when you re-visit them in your app. This is because Turbolinks caches the full page content in its own internal cache. And this

30 minutes of code #1: Shopify voor verhuur

Vandaag start ik deze nieuwe blog serie: 30 minutes of code. Het idee is om mezelf te motiveren regelmatig 30 minuten te besteden aan het ontwikkelen van een app of het uitzoeken van een bepaalde technologie. En dit dan in de tijd buiten mijn "echte" werk. Waarom 30 minuten?Het

Mijn apps voor habit building en een goede gezondheid (juni 2020)

De apps die ik elke dag gebruik voor het opbouwen van goede gewoonten en verbeteren van mijn gezondheid.

Building Me

The apps I use for habit building and improving health (June 2020)

The apps that I use daily for habit building and improving health.

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Building Me

The MacBook Pro is back!

My MacBook Pro TouchBar is back. Now without sticky keys.

vlogging

Popping and clicking with the Røde VideoMic GO

My short explanation of the Rode Videomic GO clicking and popping interference. Review: Buy the VideoMicro instead.

Operating

Managing app secrets in Kubernetes at Firmhouse

At Firmhouse we're gradually migrating from a Dokku-based infrastructure onto a new Kubernetes-based infrastructure setup running on DigitalOcean Kubernetes. Out with manual work. In with automation!

Operating

Running-multi server Dokku: problems and options

This blog post is a collection of resources and thoughts about running applications via Dokku on a High Available (HA) or multi-server setup. Since Dokku doesn't support multi-server out of the box, this post is a meant of an overview of options that are out there.

CTO Advice

CTO advice: A checklist for using cloud databases

My "advice from a CTO to you": An overview of security checks and configurations to apply when using managed cloud databases for your apps.

Development

Upgrading an existing Intercity installation to the new installer

Follow this post to upgrade your current Intercity installation to the new installer method

Development

Updated installing Intercity to a single command

It just got extremely easy to install Intercity - the web UI for managing Docker applications, plugins, and application deployments.

Product

Behind the scenes: Adding custom domain mapping to Airstrip via Traefik.io

We are going to add a custom domain mapping feature to our site builder Airstrip and we're using Treafik.io to make it happen.

Development

Introducing a Rails 5.1 development environment via Docker

A ready-to-use full Rails 5.1 development environment via Docker. Use my repository and follow these instructions to develop Rails apps on your local machine via Docker and docker-compose.