Blog Posts
All my blog posts and articles
February 2020
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2020-02-10
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2020-02-08
Some great links for 02/09/2020
Read more →Gemifying Your Style Guide to DRY Your CSS – Ruby on Rails Upgrades
A very nice technique to build a gem with all your css and js in one place.
tags: ruby on rails guide rails dry style css ruby howto
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2020-02-08
Dicts are now ordered, get used to it
Dicts are now ordered, get used to it
— Read on softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2020/02/05/dicts-ordered/en/
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2020-02-04
Some great links for 02/05/2020
Read more →How to Fake a Traffic Jam on Google Maps – VICE
This is really interesting and cute. Maybe too cute. Urban legend?
tags: fake interesting maps google maps
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January 2020
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2020-01-30
Some great links for 01/31/2020
Different Ways to Set Attributes in ActiveRecord (Rails 6)
It’s always hard to remember all the different options that activerecord offers for manipulating data.
tags: programming rails activerecord
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2020-01-27
Some great links for 01/28/2020
The Cost of Investing Too Heavily in a JavaScript Framework – DEV Community
For serious projects, think twice about betting totally on a big heavy framework. Make sure you really need it because you are buying into a big and permanent tax on your project.
tags: javascript framework
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2020-01-26
Some great links for 01/27/2020
Goodbye, Clean Code — Overreacted
DRY. Everything in moderation. On rules and knowing when to break them.
tags: dry Code programming
The Throw Keyword was a Mistake – By Chris Fox
I don’t think I agree. But does contain some good caveats. Reminds me of the old “Goto considered harmful”.
tags: software programming design
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2020-01-24
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2020-01-21
Some great links for 01/22/2020
Python built-ins worth learning – Trey Hunner
A fantastic efficient way to review most of the top methods and functions in python.
Notes on algorithms – DEV Community
Review in a straightforward manner the complexity of the key sort algorithms
tags: algorithms bigo explainer
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2020-01-19
Some great links for 01/20/2020
These lists come and go all the time. I learned a couple of new ones so chance it out!
tags: productivity tools cli macbook
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2020-01-15
Some great links for 01/16/2020
If you are coming to Ruby from another programming language there are a lot of good tips here!
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2020-01-14
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2020-01-11
December 2019
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2019-12-29
Some great links for 12/30/2019
Altair: Declarative Visualization in Python
Amazing pretty visualizations in Python based on vega-lite platform
tags: python jupyter visualization vega-lite
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2019-12-24
Some great links for 12/25/2019
More handy shortcuts and one liners in everyday use
tags: programming howto python
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2019-12-20
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2019-12-17
Some great links for 12/18/2019
Read more →Martin Fowler always has interesting views and recommendations
tags: howto examples martinfowler techniques testing
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2019-12-16
Some great links for 12/17/2019
“The most damaging thing you learned in school wasn’t something you learned in any specific class. It was learning to get good grades.”
tags: school grades paulgraham
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2019-12-15
Some great links for 12/16/2019
Git: Cheat Sheet (advanced) – DEV Community
A really nice diagram worth the cost of admission by itself.
tags: tips howto git development
Git tips for trunk-based development – DEV Community
Some of these ideas are beyond my skill level. Saving for future reference!
tags: git development tips
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2019-12-14