SIGAVDI #88: Endless Beans Edition
Hello friends, It smells like autumn. This will likely be an autumn without apple-cidering and hayrides, which makes me sad. I’m still on a dead-tree kick, so more book quotes…
The ultimate software taboo
I have written before about the hidden dangers of unstructured or “flat” organizations. A microcosm of the structure wars is the debate over whether Open Source software projects should adopt…
Alternative Ruby Symbol Literals
Periodically I take episodes from the RubyTapas archives and publish them for free. This episode from October 2012 is about symbol literals, and how you can use alternative quoting syntax…
SIGAVDI #87: Squash Blossom Edition
Hello friends, First off, real quick: I’m planning a workshop on project automation. Tell me if you’re interested? Thanks! OK, onward… I’ve been reading a lot of books lately. So…
SIGAVDI #86: Fancy Ramen Edition
In which I transition back to work, and debut the “Fluxboard” method of personal organization.
Rubber Duck Session: Rails Polymorphic Attributes with Karim Talek
In this public Rubber Duck Session, my pairing partner Karim wanted to move some logic for editing message-display rules from the frontend to the backend. We settled on using JSONB…
An Investigative Debugging Toolbox
Last week I ran an experimental workshop on Investigative Debugging. It was a lot of fun and the attendees seemed to get a lot out of it. Afterwards I sent…
Share .netrc with your devcontainers
How to keep your sensitive CLI client logins central and secure.
SIGAVDI #85: Picnic Edition
What’s new, what’s good, and some meditations on ego-less code and being The Asshole.
Run Rails 6 System Tests in Docker Using a Host Browser
The problem: we wanted to get Rails system tests running using a browser on our development machines.