Share .netrc with your devcontainers
How to keep your sensitive CLI client logins central and secure.
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.
How to meet people at tech events when you’re awkward and shy
Avdi Grimm and Jessica Kerr discuss strategies fro making meaningful connections at tech events.
Riffing on `interpose` implementations in Ruby
Implementing a new Ruby Enumerable method turns into an exploration of refinements, enumerators, RSpec block testing, & more…
Preserving session with Mechanize
A write-up of a tricky aspect of saving Mechanize agent cookies.
Screencast: Auto-correcting typos in Emacs
I put this video up the other day, but I figured I should stick it on my blog too. Enjoy! The source of the code I used is this blog…
Matching hostnames with pcase in Elisp
I am not what you might call a “competent” Emacs Lisp programmer. More of a cargo-culter, really. But I’m trying to get better. I create RubyTapas episodes across two different…
Some Pharo 4 Getting-Started Tips
Pharo 4 is a fast-developing project, and like any project that moves fast and has a small community, the development sometimes outstrips the documentation. Since I’ve started to play with Pharo…
Calc-mode for calculating seconds
Yesterday I had a tiny epiphany about when Emacs calc-mode can be really useful. Here’s a tiny screencast about it.
Playing with JSON in Postgres
I can fetch a JSON list of subscribers like this: curl -u $API_LOGIN:$API_PASSWORD https://example.org/subscribers Then there’s jq, which is basically AWK for JSON. The following invocation simply breaks a top-level…