Last monday was my fourth anniversary working at Swapps as a software developer. It was also my four years anniversary working as a software developer at all. Before working here at Swapps, I had some minor works on my university but none related to ...

Back in 2010, Vincent Driessen wrote “A successful Git branching model”. It provided a great model to develop applications in an organized repository and following semantic versioning concepts, so the teams were able to plan releases, implement features and hotfixes knowing and reflecting the ...

Back in 2015 we started using Ansible at Swapps. I created a small Django application that could interface with Ansible directly, and used that to manage our infrastructure at higher level. Back then, Ansible was in version 1.9. Ansible is written in python, so ...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I found out about SSH keys and GPG keys and I thought they were good... so I started using them, obviously the wrong way (if you want to know a little bit more, you ...

We are always looking for new tools that can help us to grow as developers. Lately I have been learning about functional programming and how it can impact the code I write at large. During that quest, I found out about Elixir, a functional ...

There is no doubt that technology has changed our lives. It has driven us to heights we could not have imagined otherwise. Technology has also filled every corner of our daily lives, changing the way we behave and communicate. So, as designers and developers, ...

WordPress is the most used Content Management System (CMS) on the world. Its simple design makes it easy to use so everyone may learn its basics in no time. Thanks to its popularity, it is possible to find a great variety of WordPress plugins ...

As a web developer, using databases may be a pain, you must ensure that all your queries are pretty well structured, and they have to work as expected, so when you choose an ORM you are in a good way to achieve it, you ...

One of the biggest advantages of Django is its ability to create CRUDs applications with no effort. You just need to define your models, register them at the admin and that’s it. If you are not going to follow the admin approach, you may ...

At Swapps, we use Slack daily to communicate with the other members of the work team; from sayting good morning, to notifying a situation of great relevance. Because Slack is an application we use constantly, we have integrated different notifications to this tool; so, ...

When we, as users, navigate through a website or app we click here and there in different parts of the interface. While we're doing this, we usually overlook one of the vital elements on every design system: the button. Buttons have a special meaning ...

Thanks to MailHog, we can preview the email in an easier way. MailHog simulates an outbox of your app; All emails sent by your app are captured and displayed in their respective versions: HTML, text, and MIME-Type. How to install MailHog This is an ...