Tuesday25: Keeping an automation notebook
In today’s pomodoro, I step through a series of actions I want to automate. In the process, I write a live, executable notebook of shell commands using Emacs Org-Mode.
Tuesday25: Mostly just yelling at the computer
Very little worked right in this pomodoro. I investigated the emacs command-line arguments for exporting org-mode files to Github-Flavored Markdown, and some other stuff. [boilerplate bypath=”tuesday25″]
Tuesday 25: Writing a RubyTapas episode (with voice dictation)
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Kata and Analysis by Jim Weirich
Towards the end of this video there’s a terrific discussion of the point at which DRYing out the code any further would just make it harder to understand. I was…
Dave Copeland on Escaping String-Typing
The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information. — Alan Perlis Here’s…
Jim Weirich on Decoupling from Rails
In 2011, “Uncle Bob” Martin challenged the Rails community to decouple their business log from Rails machinery. But he didn’t much detailed guidance as to how. Here’s a talk by…
The Soul of Software
The good folks at Tropical Ruby have released the video of my keynote, The Soul of Software. In this talk I start with the premise that the Ruby wave may have…