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…
Dotenv for multiple environments
Lately I’ve been handling configuration entirely through environment variables for my apps, as the 12 Factor App recommends, and I can’t recommend this approach enough. As a constraint it helps…