Blog Posts
All my blog posts and articles
September 2019
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2019-09-15
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2019-09-12
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2019-09-01
Some great links for 09/02/2019
Read more →WTF :: WTF – the terminal dashboard
A kind of crazy cool dashboard for all kinds of info all in text suitable for display in. Terminal window.
Another very useful text processing tool for text based data files.
tags: text cli validation txt cue
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August 2019
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2019-08-25
Some great links for 08/26/2019
4 Rules for Intuitive UX – Learn UI Design
Fantastic set of really low hanging fruit UI rules. Stuff that anyone can apply and fix and mistakes you should never make!
tags: UI howto explainer rules UX
A pretty good, to great, overview of the bits and pieces that make up Kubernetes
tags: howto explainer kubernetes
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2019-08-24
Some great links for 08/25/2019
The GVL and C Extensions – a cooperative partnership
very interesting way to embed C in ruby, if you’re into that kind of thing!
Yes, but, do we need another shell? Do we all have to learn Rust? What about a shell framework that will embed any language?
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2019-08-15
Some great links for 08/16/2019
Advanced multi-db techniques in Rails 6
Great new features in rails 6 — support of multi database models
tags: rails techniques database scalability multi
Great list. One I had I idea existed is warn_indent. Hello Python?
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2019-08-13
Some great links for 08/14/2019
A Complete Guide to the Ruby Programming World – Learn Worthy
A nice comprehensive review of the world of the ruby programming language, my personal favorite right now.
tags: programming guide ruby overview
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2019-08-06
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2019-08-01
Some great links for 08/02/2019
Everything old is new again
https://fili.pp.ru/leaky-constants.html
Good to know!
Nice loggers
tags: github logging structured terminal
July 2019
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2019-07-28
Some great links for 07/29/2019
Scripting and automating git processes
This one is pretty eclectic but if you find yourself writing a script in ruby or python or bash and you need to respond in the logic to what’s going on in git, then you will find some very useful tips here.
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2019-07-19
Some great links for 07/20/2019
Goodbye ActiveRecord! – Inside Aircall – Medium
Always wanted to learn more about this new Orm
tags: rom activerecord gems libraries orm
This is very cool and useful too!
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2019-07-17
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2019-07-15
Some great links for 07/16/2019
Linux Applications Performance: Introduction – Unixism
A comprehensive look at how web (http) servers work
tags: performance scalability http example
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2019-07-14
Some great links for 07/15/2019
Read more →This is an AMAZING collection of graphs. Great to have a ruby binding. Haven’t tried it yet but looks very worth while.
tags: charts howto tools gem ruby interactive
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2019-07-10
Some great links for 07/11/2019
Read more →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 hacking ruby security gems attack
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2019-07-05
June 2019
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2019-06-21
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2019-06-19
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2019-06-15
Some great links for 06/16/2019
Read more →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
The world in which IPv6 was a good design
A deceptively chatty but still very dense and technical tour through the history of internet protocols. I got through 3/4 of it before getting lost. Very good.
tags: internet ...
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2019-06-13