I am a Ruby on Rails developer based in Victoria, BC. This blog is my attempt to spread the joy of building web applications in Ruby on Rails with the world.
Another great resource for learning how to use stimulus and hotwired in Ruby on Rails.
Filed under things I didn’t know about IO with Ruby. Still love that language! This gem takes advantage of Unix “splices” to speed up IO when reading and writing large amounts of data.
The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic.
Looks interesting! Will anything ever lure me away from vscode? Yes: I’m old enough to know that eventually every programming habit gets superseded by a better one.
We often think of communities as organic creatures, which come into existence and grow on their own. However, the truth is they are fragile blossoms.
I had not come across this alternate python repl. It looks interesting and I need to investigate it further. It has some very cool features.
Rails cache using the Brotli algorithm offers better compression and performance. - GitHub - pawurb/rails-brotli-cache: Rails cache using the Brotli algorithm offers better compression and performa...
For those of you learning C or C++, this article is a great and detailed tutorial. Also useful if you are studying operating systems.
Next generation of automated data exploratory analysis and visualization platform. - Kanaries/Rath: Next generation of automated data exploratory analysis and visualization platform.
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Bullet Train is a Ruby on Rails SaaS-in-a-Box that saves developers months of effort and new founders tens of thousands of dollars.
ChatPDF is the fast and easy way to chat with any PDF, free and without sign-in. Talk to books, research papers, manuals, essays, legal contracts, whatever you have! The intelligence revolution is here, ChatGPT was just the beginning!
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The attached article is an absolute classic. Chuckleworthy but also useful and interesting. No one has ever fact-checked it though. I wonder if it is all true? Check out the article! (P.s. I like this one so much I think I’ve posted it before, it hopefully not too recently!
Just to prove that theres never the last word on anything, especially programmers editors. I thought history ended with vscode. But take a look st this, pretty tantilizing! Author says: “Code at the speed of thought. Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.”
A very interesting new text editor. Looks a lot like vscode. Playing with it. It is written in RUST which is always now the key to being a cool app. It is very very fast. But it does not have all the plugins I rely on.
Non technical, but i love sketching and drawing to pass the time. Author says: “Practice drawing little houses and towers. Then level them up with dimensional views and clusters that create different styles of towns and cities…”
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Author says: “Every week now, it seems, events on the ground make a fresh mockery of those who confidently assert what AI will never be able to do, or won’t do for centuries if ever, or is incoherent even …”
Classes teach you all about advanced topics within CS, from operating systems to machine learning, but there’s one critical subject that’s rarely covered, and is instead left to students to figure out on their own: proficiency with their tools. We’ll teach you how to master the command-line, use a powerful text editor, use fancy features of version control systems, and much more!
Last week I published a story for The Washington Post that required an interactive slippy map. Lookup maps like this are a common pattern to show a geographic trend and let readers explore the data …