Tools

We’ve talked about sorting out a VPN connection for Sauce Employees for a long time. The main reason is that creating a AWS Security Group set up for individual employee remote IP addresses is a lot of management.

I’ve been reviewing a few things recently around how we are not only using Elixir at Sauce, but also how we are deploying and hosting it.

By caching and restoring cookies, localStorage, and sessionStorage data using the cy.session() command my Cypress tests now run considerably faster.

In the process of trying to fix a bug with one of our projects, it became apparent that the system had become depleted and reached its end of life on the newest Mac version.

Playwright is an open source cross-browser end-to-end testing framework, maintained by Microsoft and developed by the team who created Puppeteer.

We spend so much time at our keyboards that it’s important that you feel comfortable when using them. There are certain keys that have always felt uncomfortable to me because I have to stretch my fingers to use them, or I have to put my hand in some weird position to press a combination of keys at once.

Don’t fear the Terminal Learning Unix commands is a really useful for our sanity as developers. It’s often quicker to use terminal than using a GUI.

Many devs at Sauce are now using VSCode as their code editor of choice, including me (RIP Atom) I’m always looking for ways to keep my hands at the keyboard and not the mouse/trackpad.

Here are some basic shortcuts you should learn for highly productive source code editing. 🧙 Multiple Selectors If there’s one shortcut to speed up your coding it’s mastering multiple selectors.