If you are using zscaler and are trying to run the iOS simulator with the React Native metro server, you may have run into the issue of not being able to pull in content from your metro server while zscaler is running. Turning off Internet Security might allow this to…

Take advantage of some of the advanced image handling from the Photoshop API Originally published at https://fek.io. I recently came across this post from Raymond Camden on how to use the Photoshop APIs with Node.js. If you are not familiar with Raymond Camden, he is an engineer at Adobe, and…

Quickly add a GraphQL endpoint to your Fastify service. Originally published at https://fek.io. I recently needed to add a GraphQL endpoint to an existing Fastify service. I have worked with Apollo before which has a way of hosting on top of an Express service. There may be a way…

Read this post to find out how to add an AppDelegate class to your SwiftUI app Originally published at https://fek.io. By default when you create a new application in Xcode that is a SwiftUI app, it generates an application without an AppDelegate class. It has been replaced by an…

Sometimes upgrading a major version of a JavaScript framework can be tricky. Originally published at https://fek.io. Upgrading to Gatsby 5 from version 4 Gatsby 5 was introduced at the end of last year. I decided to upgrade my site to Gatsby 5 from version 4. Upgrading Gatsby a major version can be complex, especially if you…

Swift Package Libraries for iOS will sometimes not run using the standard swift test runner. Originally published at https://fek.io. I recently ran into a problem trying to set up automated unit testing for a iOS based Swift Package. There are a couple of different ways of creating packages or…

It turns out you can use machine learning with JavaScript. — Originally published at https://fek.io. I am in the process of trying to learn more about machine learning. AI and machine learning on the surface can appear to be daunting when you hear terms like multi-layered neural networks and linear regression. But for simple tasks, you can leverage machine learning…

Even with NoSQL alternatives, developers should learn SQL Originally published at https://fek.io. I spent last Saturday going to the 2022 SQL Saturday event here in Jacksonville, FL. You can think of this event as a conference in a day, where system admins, developers and Devops workers get together to learn…

Find the easy and not-so-hard way to add Jest to your Next.js app. — Originally published at https://fek.io. I have been using Next.js for a new project I am currently working on. Most of my Node.js experience working with web apps has been using the Express.js framework. One of the tools I like using for my testing is Jest. If you have not…