Apart from the Cypress chromium crashes I explained in Part 1 of this blog series, I also experienced some assertion timeout errors due to element cannot be found. In this part, we will talk about ways you could fix it.

After recently working on an existing project that adopted Cypress, I was both amazed at how pleasant the local developer experience was and how badly it runs on the CI pipeline. No joke, at one point I actually missed Selenium. To debug the issue, I must have run the pipeline over 100 if not 200 times and read many many Github issue threads. Finally, I was able to problem resolved and noted down a few things along the way which may help someone else in the same shoes. I am pretty confident these solutions will fix your problems, if not leave an angry comment and let me know that I failed 😂

As software engineers, there are a lot of things to disagree on: tech stack, syntax, code standard, testing, methodologies, etc. No matter your seniority, learning how to frame a disagreement is vital. It includes both disagreeing with what others have done and have others disagree with your approach. It happens a lot more often than we expect, so if we don't pay attention to our methods, then it is easy to cause stress and tension within the team or between teams. If this continues for a long time then well, then it will create a toxic work environment. As someone who has a consultancy background, which requires people to jump in a new team and start delivering value as well as navigate office politics, I thought this is an intriguing subject for me to share my thoughts on.

In a recent post Stop trying, you can't multitask, I wanted to embed a few productivity books which I found useful. Since I write all the content in Markdown, I thought about embedding iframe components or insert image version of the book components in the Markdown, which are both terrible ideas. Luckily, there's a better way to do this with MDX, which allowed me to use React components inside Markdown. The solution is super clean, and in this article, I'll be explaining how to add React components to your Gatsby site.

If you are familiar with Next.js then you will know it is the React SSR (server-side rendering) framework created by Vercel. There are a lot of headaches in trying to build SSR sites in React, Next.js makes it drastically simpler by doing many of the not-so-nice parts and hiding it from developers. The problem with frameworks, in general, is that it does what it is designed to do very well while sacrifices control and customisation to achieve it. Next.js is very good at handling components rendered on server-side and then sent to the client. But how would you render a client-side only component in Next.js? That is an issue I encountered and what I'll be discussing in this article.

There are a lot of articles out there discussing why people need to focus instead of trying to multitask. At best, I have seen this being done from a biology point of view going into depth about how our brain works on a more fundamental level. I studied Computer Science at University, and this multitasking problem isn't new to me. Let's discuss how computer operating systems schedule tasks and what valuable lessons we can learn from it.

I recently migrated a few domains to Cloudflare. Sure enough, my domain set up is all over the place afterwards. I decided to clean everything up and set up everything again from scratch. This article explains how I was able to get Cloudflare to forward all request to Netlify.

Google recently announced the new Core Web Vitals, which will reshape the web soon. Although now they are only used as guidance metrics for websites to follow, it will massively impact how Google's Search Engine algorithm works and thus, how websites get ranked on Google search results next year. Is your company or your site ready for all this? In this article, we will go over what these metrics are and how it affects developers and businesses.

Too often we forget to measure how our websites are doing, that is especially true for smaller sites like this blog. Not that it has never crossed my mind, but it just felt too much hassle to do. Recently, I found about Sitespeed.io, and it has changed everything! It is a collection of open-source tools are makes monitoring website performance super easy. In this article, I'll walk through how we can utilise it in our workflow.

Git is often explained in a way that is too complex for the non-technical people to grasp its usefulness or the purpose of adopting it in the business. In my opinion, it is such a simple (yet powerful) concept that anyone should be able to understand easily with some simple explaining.