Describes a simple Markov chain algorithm to generate reasonable-sounding but utterly nonsensical text, and presents some example outputs as well as a Python implementation.
A neat explanation of markov chains and some python code to look at too!
During the development of Python applications, I've continually asked myself how and when variables should be passed and initialized for the application's configuration. I want to be able to easily override the configuration for tests, for example, to use a local database for testing. But what exactly is application configuration, and why is it needed? The website a ...
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Super useful library to access git from python
Amazing summary of all the crazy dev tools in the python world.
Why oh why are there so many overlaps?
Amazing set of diagram makers that I had never seen. All I knew about was Graphviz.
A beautiful book, free, online, full of actionable advice for ruby devs.
Service Objects are a popular software design pattern in the Ruby on Rails community. They are used to extract procedural logic away from models and controllers and into their own objects.
Good article on an arcane topic that the ruby community loves to debate and discuss.
Shale - Ruby object mapper and serializer for XML, JSON and YAML
A pretty amazing, super useful package.
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.
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 Yes: I’m old enough to know that eventually every programming habit gets superseded by a better one.
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.
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.
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.
A very interesting overview of companies and their spproach yo coding interviews. Good if youre applying for a job there. But also good if you are designing your interview process. Author says: “Take the guesswork out of coding interviews with codinginterview.com. Explore comprehensive guides to hack the process at top companies including Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook, and more “
If youve done a bit of Rails, you might have written some helpers like this. This package seems like a more complete and comprehensive implementation of this idea.
The author (not me) says: “Right up front, I should say that Rust is very good at what it’s designed to do, and if your project needs the specific benefits of Rust (a systems language with high performance, super strong typing, no need for garbage collection, etc.) then Rust is a great choice. But I think that Rust is often used in situations where it’s not a great fit, and teams pay the price of Rust’s complexity and overhead without getting much benefit.”
This article is about a few quick thumb rules I use when writing shell scripts that I’ve come to appreciate over the years. Very opinionated....
A suprisingly thoughtful and detailed essay. I skimmed it. It's a bit of intellectual play because the question could be answered much more briefly. But the article does go deep and look at the question in many different interesting ways.