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The Crystal programming language and encodings

Recently I found myself struggling with setting up file encodings correctly in the Crystal programming language, this is why I document this here. Crystal defaults to reading and writing files in UTF-8. Sometimes you will encounter files encoded in e.g. the Windows-1252 code page. (This is the western european code page, e.g. used for German [...]

By Maximilian Batz| November 24th, 2018|Development|Kommentare deaktiviert

Optimizing page size for Shopify–uncomfortable truths

The uncomfortable truth in my case is that our main page currently weighs in at 3,4 MB – and this is just the HTML.I had been trusting the developers of the theme too much – we are using a theme called “Fastor” by Roarthemes. Unfortunately a poor design choice was made in this theme; or [...]

By Maximilian Batz| August 29th, 2018|Development|Kommentare deaktiviert

Algolia and using instantsearch.js from your script for Shopify

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.” – Steve JobsInspired by pimoroni.com I wanted to implement a similar search on our webshop, buyzero.de as well. buyzero.de is currently powered by Shopify.The search shows results as you type – in the main page, dynamically replacing the previosly displayed content. Very cool, very useful – and very, very [...]

By Maximilian Batz| August 11th, 2018|Development|Kommentare deaktiviert