Tobias Leyland

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
I'm Tobias, the CTO at FirstB2B. Subscribe to follow my thoughts on current technologies, programming solutions or whatever else is on my mind. Thanks for visiting

🇮🇹
Mi chiamo Tobias, il CTO su FirstB2B. Iscriviti per seguire i miei pensieri sulle tecnologie attuali, sulle soluzioni di programmazione o su qualsiasi altra cosa abbia in mente. Grazie della visita

March 25, 2025

You can just do things

One of the things dad left me was his prized Triumph Sprint 955, which as he said - scared the shit out of him. She was seized up in his barn but with the help of a friend with some nous, we managed to get her free and up into the van to take back home. On the first sunny day available, I wheeled her out the garage and wiped off all th...

August 1, 2024

Step by step

Well it’s been a while since I last blogged. Lots has happened over the months and unfortunately one of the things was that I lost my dad. One minute you’re sat there with a yoghurt bowl watching TV and a couple of minutes later your phone goes and life turns upside down. Your world stops but the wider world carries on. There’s surpris...

April 29, 2024

Recip.pe 🥙

One of the best things writing software is when you find the inspiration to solve a problem. For me, we are often sharing recipes in family WhatsApp groups. These are hard to keep track of and find later down the line. When looking online for a recipe and you have to accept 16 cookie banners and read the author's life story to find out...

March 28, 2024

Faccio il Blog in Italiano! - I'm doing this blog in Italian!

(English translation at bottom) 🇮🇹 Decido di scrivere questo blog in Italiano e Inglese. Sto imparando l'Italiano da 3 mesi. Penso che questo mi aiuterà quando devo mettere insieme le frasi nella mia testa. Ho fatto Duolinguo per 1 anno ma parlare è difficile! A Gennaio ho cominciato a studiare con un tutor su Italki. Adesso parlo un p...

March 11, 2024

Turbo 🚀

We've been a user of TurboLinks for many years now and I was recently inspired by all of the releases in the latest RailsConf. After looking into how to upgrade from TurboLinks to Turbo and following the fantastic blog post by Alexandre Ruban - We made the jump and upgraded our internal app to use Turbo and Stimulus. The view transitio...

February 19, 2024

Containers 🐳

First blog post is going to be about the wonders of containers and how that helps us in numerous ways when it comes to simplifying DevOps. Back when I was in university, containers were only a pipe dream (certainly not used in InfoSec Lectures!). We made use of virtual computers in our labs in order to have the tools required to comple...

February 7, 2024

Hello World!

Hey everyone! I've been thinking about starting to blog but I guess it can be difficult to find something meaningful to say or contribute. So anyway. Here's a bit about me: I'm 31 years old, currently the CTO at FirstB2B. I guess how I came to be in this position is in itself an interesting story but that may have to come later! Based ...