Some great links for 07/11/2019
strong_password v0.0.7 rubygem hijacked Interesting description of how a public library or gem can be taken over, and modified to create an all powerful backdoor. tags: password [hac...
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July 2019
Some great links for 07/06/2019
Don’t miss out on css variables This seems very useful! tags: variables howto css Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
June 2019
Some great links for 06/22/2019
Open-sourcing Sorbet: a fast, powerful type checker for Ruby · Sorbet Claims to bring gradual type checking to ruby. tags: type ruby check tools datatypes Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Some great links for 06/20/2019
Behavior trees for AI: How they work An interesting complement or alternative to finite state machines in robotics. tags: robotics fsm states behavior Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Some great links for 06/16/2019
Ten Reasons Why I Don’t Like Golang I thought I wanted to learn golang, now I am not so sure… tags: golang critique [complaints](ht...
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Enhanced Shell Scripting with Ruby Really nice summary of using ruby for scripting. tags: how to scripting ruby howto shell Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
May 2019
Some great links for 05/27/2019
On not using ROS for your robotics startup | The Construct Excellent article outlining the case for and against using ROS. tags: ROS advice robotics startup Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Some great links for 05/22/2019
Plotly | Make charts and dashboards online An amazing graphing and plotting web site tags: plotting charting visuals visualization Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Some great links for 05/20/2019
CSS Flexbox Nav Bar – Building a Blog, Part 1 Flex box is a newish css feature that is subtle but very useful. Of course, all of css is subtle! tags: [nav](https...
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We Can Do Better Than SQL Interesting account of all the ways that SQL sucks and of course a proposed fix! tags: critique sql [Bobble-Bot](https://...
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How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer A great analysis of this terrible example of the impact of bugs tags: [software](https://www.diigo.com/user/pitosalas/softwa...
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Podcast: Can Machine Learning Solve the Challenges of Cloud Computing? | Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) | Brandeis University Good introduction to Cloud Computing and Machine Learning tags: [...
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Instrumenting Ruby on Rails with Prometheus Pretty cool way to instrument rails code. Not sure how performant it is though. tags: rails instrumentation monitoring Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Some great links for 05/06/2019
How to Schedule Cron Jobs in Ruby With the Whenever Gem Useful gem to have in your toolbox. tags: tutorial ruby [Cron](https://www.diigo.com/use...
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How I Almost Destroyed a £50 million War Plane and The Normalisation of Deviance. Unusual article not about computers, still with some excellen...
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Some great links for 04/24/2019
Microsoft Launches Bosque: An Open Source Programming Language Interesting to see a brand new language come out of research. tags: open source programming language microsoft Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Some great links for 04/23/2019
Why OO Sucks Joe Armstrong is a famous person in Erlang circles. He passes away yesterday. tags: OO oop object oriented Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Some great links for 04/22/2019
Dockerize the multi-services application for local development Combining multiple services in a container makes local development easier...
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textacular/textacular: Textacular exposes full text search capabilities from PostgreSQL, and allows you to declare full text indexes. Textacularwill extend ActiveRecord with named_scope methods making searching easy and fun! This really works! I’ve been ...
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Faster PostgreSQL Counting More abo!ut performance of Postgres tags: postgres performance [postgresql](https://www.diigo.com/user/p...
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