Michiel Sikkes

This weekend, I implemented a metrics dashboard for our iOS, Android and web app Sporzer. One metric that I needed on this dashboard...

It's the most promising change to Ruby on Rails I've been waiting for: the ability to create hybrid-native mobile apps...

In my previous post, I showed you how to easily create a simple signup for your Rails app, without needing any external gems.

I've got some exciting things to show you. As you might know, Intercity is our home-grown web-based management dashboard for hosting...

At Firmhouse, we're building Intercity Next. An open source hosting management panel for Ruby on Rails that hosts apps on servers of your choice.

A few months ago, Jeroen started working on a new open source project: Intercity Next. "Next" is the next generation version...

Two weeks ago, we decided that we are going to focus all our efforts for our app Sporzer towards increasing the number of Monthly Active Users (MAUs).

Three weeks ago, we decided that we are going to focus all our efforts for our app Sporzer towards increasing the number of Monthly Active Users (MAUs).

A crucial part of our development process at Firmhouse is that we review each other’s code and leave comments via Pull Requests...

Knowing retention and churn is crucial to understanding whether you are doing the right things to get your product off the ground...

At Firmhouse, we regularly build hybrid native apps when working on new mobile apps and Minimum Viable Products.

Learn how to deploy a ruby on rails app that runs in a docker container.

Today I accidentally ran migrations on a production environment that shouldn't run. Luckily, the table wasn't critical, but it did cause a feature of...

We are looking to add a front-end developer to our remote distributed team. We're currently a team of all-around Rails developers...

TL;DR: Filter out requests with user agents that include the keyword "FB_IAB" to track who visits your page from Facebook Ads.

Ruby on Rails 5, Turbolinks and Turbolinks iOS are fantastic frameworks to build hybrid native apps. We've already built a few...

For a side-project (http://lekkerluisteren.nl) I am using HTML5 audio tags and controlling them via JavaScript. The side project is a simple...

We already allow you to launch a subscription business for your product. Now we’re adding the next big thing: super smooth operations for device returns..

The past week I've been working on a little web app that lets you post to a Twitter account as a group: http://samentweeten.nl.

At the beginning of March 2017, Amazon Web Services had an outage. This time it was a failure in their S3 file storage service in...