At Bixoto we used to use Poetry to manage all our Python projects, but we recently started to migrate to uv, which is a lot faster. However, the commands of each tool don’t always match, which can cause some confusion. In this post we provide a partial cheatsheet of the most common commands and their … Read more
At Bixoto we have a lot of apps deployed using Dokku and we are very happy with it. However, for some complex apps we would like to be able to use docker-compose.yml files, but Dokku doesn’t support them. Back in February, we deployed a Coolify instance on a new server. Coolify looked like a good … Read more
While setting up a self-hosted single-server Coolify installation to test it as an alternative to Dokku, I was struggling with a strange intermitent SSH connection issue: when saving the configuration of the server, I would sometimes get a success message, but most of the time the following error: I tried to change the server IP/domain … Read more
At Bixoto we strive to have a fast and efficient website so our customers can buy their Christmas gifts even if they are outside on a 3G connection. One of our goal in the last months was to completely eliminate the layout shifts from all the pages, something that’s measured as the “Cumulative Layout Shift” … Read more
Serving localhost with HTTPS is a common need while developping a Web application that needs resources from another host, but it’s cumbersome because of the CORS issues and the need to install self-signed certificates or disable security features in the browser. Thankfully, Pierre-Mikael Legris, a developer in Switzerland, recently released Backloop.dev: the DNS entries for … Read more
Back in May 2023, Gitlab made it mandatory to have an expiry date on personal access tokens. This is pretty inconvenient in some setups, and fortunately they eventually removed the requirement in Gitlab 17.4, released in September 2024. Make sure you have a version higher or equal to 17.4, then go in the admin dashboard, … Read more
At Bixoto we use the TIG stack to monitor our systems. “TIG” stands for “Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana”. Telegraf is an agent that collects metrics on your servers and sends it to InfluxDB, a database oriented for real-time data. Then, Grafana reads these data points and renders them with nice graphs and provides some alerting. Of … Read more
At Bixoto we’re quite ambitious but we’re a small team so we have to make pragmatic choices for the technologies we use. For example, the website is using Magento under the hood, so we haven’t had the need to recode an e-commerce stack from the ground. Magento has its issues, but it has tons of … Read more
AVIF is a next-generation image format for the Web, that’s supported by all major browsers except IE and Edge. It has better compression than WebP, which itself is a great improvement as a replacement for JPG. As of today, the most efficient way to encode JPG images into AVIF is to use libavif’s avifenc. There are no prebuilt … Read more