April 2021
My first impressions of Rust - DEV Community
Really good run down features in rust. I believe that rust as a programming language is most appreciated by people who know languages such as C or C plus plus, in other words non-garbage collectors language is where you need to allocate and remember to deallocate.
A Recipe for Training Neural Networks
Very good article for anyone using Neural Networks
Similarity in Postgres and Rails using Trigrams · pganalyze
Useful feature of Postgres that’s right there but easy to overlook!
20 Most-Recommended Books for Software Developers - DEV Community
I know all these books. Odd that nothing new is on the list.
10 New things in ActiverRecord 6
A good tour of some new handy features in activerecord 6
Diagram.Codes
A neat interactive, web based, way to create diagrams. Is it related or based on Graphviz?
How to Process Passwords as a Software Developer - DEV Community
Very useful tips and techniques on handling of passwords.
MRPT – Empowering C++ development in robotics
A comprehensive package of C++ robotics related code. Another resource, not sure how well it works or how usable it is.
Instrument Your Ruby App In Minutes with the Honeycomb Beeline for Ruby - Honeycomb
This is another package of performance monitoring scaling tools. There are several out there, maybe this one has some cool differences.
what’s new in ruby 2.7
Some fun new features in ruby, some immediately useful, others controversial!
intro to dashboards using python
Looks like a very handy library to know about!
Ruby Literals You May Not Know - citizen428.net
Useful little details. Ruby is better than python. There I said it.
Markov Localization for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments
A seminal paper on the Markov Localization Algorithm
From ActiveRecord callbacks to Publish/Subscribe pattern and event-driven design - Karol Galanciak - Distributed Systems Architect and Ruby on Rails expert
I always thought those trigger callbacks in activerecord were a problem.
Why NUKEMAP isn't on Google Maps anymore | Restricted Data
A great article if you are looking to use mapping and visualization in your application. It convincingly says not to use google maps. Use mapbox instead.
Git tips for trunk-based development - DEV Community
Some of these ideas are beyond my skill level. Saving for future reference!
50 years of “The Art of Computer Programming” by Donald Knuth
A classic - the books and the guy