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.
Rails 6 System Tests, From Top to Bottom
Selenium! Capybara! Webdriver! chromedriver! …there are a LOT of moving parts in Rails system tests. Let’s break it down, layer by layer.
Small, sharp tools can cut you
Some reflections on the UNIX command-line model, and where it falls short.
Code and Chicken Wire
In which I argue that code is less about solving problems than about creating leverage.
SIGAVDI #84: Biscoff Edition
Musings on virtual conferences, parallel developer universes, and saying “thank you”
The Cache Flush: 009 Sponsorship Specifications
Booknotes from Domain-Driven Design and Reactive Design Patterns, and some notes on mentorship vs sponsorship.