Rake Routes
by Stephen Ball
A simple language spec isn’t a feature when you’re building applications
Oct 11, 2020
go
Go famously gushes about its simple and readable language specification. On one hand kudos to Go for having a written specification and kudos for
The Fastest Possible Tests
Oct 3, 2020
programming
I love tests as a fast programming feedback loop! In the last twenty or so years I’ve seen them go from an occasional critical verification to a
Shrink your data into bitfields (and out again)
Apr 29, 2020
data structures
Some applications want to save every byte. Every last byte! Maybe they have memory constraints, maybe they’re sending data over the network, maybe
Every “if” statement is an object waiting to be extracted
Feb 18, 2020
programming
Consider the following Ruby code. So we’re modeling beverages. Great! Our class can accept a kind of beverage and then respond to some messages
Choose Generic Tools
Jan 2, 2020
programming
Upstream your tooling instead of rolling your own. The more you push upstream to gems or Rails, the less logic you need in your application. Save
Hyperlinks you might find interesting — #4
Dec 2, 2019
links
How to annotate literally everything Calculus Explained with pics and gifs Paw — API tool for Mac (50% OFF Black Friday Sale) Diagram.Codes xkcd:
Running bundle install on rails master
Nov 30, 2019
rails
“Ok! Let’s check out this Rails 6 goodness”, I thought. Clone rails/rails — easy Look around the latest commits — a great way to see what’s been
Use tldr for command line examples
Nov 19, 2019
command line
If you use the command line you’ve probably already seen manual pages, accessed via the man command. man pages are great when you need a full
Friday Lunch Links — #3
Nov 15, 2019
links
Speaking of Diversity: find engineering teams that share your values with Key Values. It’s a nice tool that allows you to select values you’re
Friday Lunch Links — #2
Nov 9, 2019
links
Dark Matter: A Primer (PDF) — An excellent academic paper detailing the numerous pieces of evidence we’ve accumulated on the actual, measurable
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