Notes and insights on product, technology, and team work.https://toadle.me/https://toadle.me/en/blog/render-ssl-certificate-apex-domain-fix/https://toadle.me/en/blog/render-ssl-certificate-apex-domain-fix/If Render is stuck on SSL certificate issuance for your apex domain, the culprit might be an ALIAS record. Switching to a plain A record pointing to 216.24.57.1 fixes it instantly.Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:00:00 GMThttps://toadle.me/en/blog/automated-migration-from-contentful-to-strapi-with-strapi-lift/https://toadle.me/en/blog/automated-migration-from-contentful-to-strapi-with-strapi-lift/How `strapi_lift` simplifies automated migration from Contentful to Strapi — from content type configuration to idempotent, resumable execution.Tue, 05 Aug 2025 22:00:00 GMThttps://toadle.me/en/blog/terminal-as-an-app-launcher-alternative-on-the-mac/https://toadle.me/en/blog/terminal-as-an-app-launcher-alternative-on-the-mac/I'm a very big fan of the productivity improvements that only using keyboard shortcuts brings. You trade the learning of some button pushes for a lot of speed iWed, 21 Oct 2020 19:30:00 GMThttps://toadle.me/en/blog/how-to-add-more-games-to-nes-mini-classic-using-hakchi2-and-a-mac/https://toadle.me/en/blog/how-to-add-more-games-to-nes-mini-classic-using-hakchi2-and-a-mac/The [NES Mini Classic](http://bit.ly/nesminiclassic) is a wonderful little box. It captures most of the **old gaming feeling** by putting you close to the screeThu, 02 Feb 2017 22:00:00 GMThttps://toadle.me/en/blog/fixing-failing-ssl-certificate-verification-for-ruby-under-windows/https://toadle.me/en/blog/fixing-failing-ssl-certificate-verification-for-ruby-under-windows/A while ago I wrote a [little piece](/2015/04/16/fixing-failing-ssl-verification-with-rvm.html) that was ment to safe people from the SSL-certificate problems tMon, 22 Aug 2016 22:00:00 GMThttps://toadle.me/en/blog/the-one-it-skill-i-wished-everybody-had/https://toadle.me/en/blog/the-one-it-skill-i-wished-everybody-had/There is a **big gap in understanding between developers and business-people**. Sometimes we are not aware of this gap, for example when we engage in emotional Fri, 01 Jul 2016 22:00:00 GMThttps://toadle.me/en/blog/a-new-ruby-gem-for-the-giantbomb-api/https://toadle.me/en/blog/a-new-ruby-gem-for-the-giantbomb-api/A new, very ruby-ish GEM for the Giantbomb-API. Because I like Ruby and video-games.Fri, 18 Sep 2015 22:00:00 GMThttps://toadle.me/en/blog/when-rspec-with-capybara-fails-with-notfound-while-serving-ajax-requests/https://toadle.me/en/blog/when-rspec-with-capybara-fails-with-notfound-while-serving-ajax-requests/"Concurrency is a bitch" this famous quote by **any developer ever** can haunt your everyday work like crazy. Why? Because mainly race-conditions and concurrencThu, 10 Sep 2015 22:00:00 GMThttps://toadle.me/en/blog/the-speed-of-product-development-is-just-a-feeling/https://toadle.me/en/blog/the-speed-of-product-development-is-just-a-feeling/You know, I often get a very strange itch, when on a long-distance flight: After let's say 3-5 hours after take-off, when I've watched the first 0815-movie, looWed, 12 Aug 2015 22:00:00 GMThttps://toadle.me/en/blog/the-best-35-podcast-episodes-since-2010/https://toadle.me/en/blog/the-best-35-podcast-episodes-since-2010/Today is a really sad day for me. My beloved Podcast-Client [Instacast](http://vemedio.com/products/instacast) has closed down due to „no money left“. I normallSat, 13 Jun 2015 22:00:00 GMThttps://toadle.me/en/blog/fixing-failing-ssl-certificate-verification-with-rvm-osx/https://toadle.me/en/blog/fixing-failing-ssl-certificate-verification-with-rvm-osx/Ruby installed with RVM under OSX gives you and error OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError which stops you from connecting to any kind os SSL-secured destination. Here is how to fix it.Wed, 15 Apr 2015 22:00:00 GMT