links Friday Lunch Links — #3 Key Values, machine learning to help the robots, bar chart races, Toolbox Pro, and Basecamp Personal.
analysis Logical Solver: Turn facts into conclusions The videogame Dishonored 2 has a wonderful example of a famous type of puzzle: the logic grid. In this post we take a look at logic grid puzzles and a clever data structure that allows us to represent them effectively.
command line Programming with jq jq is awesome and it's more than simply a JSON data parser. It's a programming language in its own right and today thanks to some Rosetta Code examples we'll be looking at what it can do.
command line Command line tools - jq jq is a great command line tool for parsing JSON. Let's check out the basics!
links Friday Lunch Links — #1 Friday Lunch Links — Issue #1 A great Statistics book, why text rendering and text editing hate us, an intern's Rust experience, a font webpage to horrify anyone that likes nice kerning, rising oceans, and useful command line tools.
career Why diversity matters Diversity is something to strive for in technical teams. Not only because it's the right thing to do but because diverse teams outperform monocultures.
career Code puzzles are a poor way to gauge technical candidates Code puzzles are not representative of the actual work of programming. Technical interviews should stop pretending they are.
command line Add vim to a pipeline with vipe Have you ever wanted to stop and edit text in the middle of a pipeline? With vipe you can!
ruby Connecting Objects with Observable Let's dive a bit into the Observable module from Ruby's standard library.
command line What's a $PATH anyway? You've probably seen $PATH or just PATH before as the place you needto add new commands for your prompt. What is that? Where is it? How does it work?
ruby Let's Use Hwacha to Scan URLs I've written a gem, Hwacha, as a wrapper around Typhoeus to allow for quick and easy response checking for multiple URLs. Let's go through some simple use cases!
git Deliberate Git Git gives us the opportunity to do something really amazing. It allows us to make quick commits locally without breaking flow and then allows us to rewrite those commits into a cohesive story that we share with our team.
ruby Customize Your IRB Useful tips and tricks describing how you can customize irb (the default Ruby REPL).
programming Program Like a Videogamer It's hard to start learning new programming techniques or new tech stacks. In this post I share how I approach these tasks from the mindset of a videogamer.
ruby Gem Spotlight: interactive_editor Dive into one of my favorite Ruby gems: interactive_editor. It allows you to open a full text editor from a REPL session!
career Things Most Interviewees Fail to Discover Key things to find out when you evaluate a potential new employer, team, and work environment.
rails Rails isn't for beginners There's been some talk online about how Rails is losing its focus on beginners or that it's getting too complex for its own good. I have a different take: Rails was never written for beginners. Let's go through a bit of Rails history and philosophy.
ruby How to write (and test) a gem to serve static files on the Rails asset pipeline Write and test a gem that adds static assets to a Rails project.
ruby A Taste of Metaprogramming Today we take a small taste from the wide ranging metaprogramming abilities that Ruby gives us. We'll be looking at `define_method` and `method_missing` to take a class of hardcoded repetitive methods to class that has methods dynamically created at runtime or methods that never really exist.
ruby Fun with Rock, Paper, Scissors Explore the game of Rock, Paper, Scissors for a bit of coding fun. We'll implement some simple players and move on to some basic metaprogramming techniques and write players that manipulate each other or the game itself.
ruby Let's Write a Gem: Part 2 In this post we'll finish our tutorial gem. Along the way I'll point out some confusing pitfalls you can run into when testing gems locally.
ruby Let's Write a Gem: Part 1 Gems. Gotta love em. If you're a Ruby developer then you already know that gems are simply fundamental to Ruby programming. Let's write one.
