The ‘Titan’ Submersible Disaster Was Years in the Making, New Details Reveal | Vanity Fair
Link: The ‘Titan’ Submersible Disaster Was Years in the Making, New Details Reveal | Vanity Fair: "To many in the tight-knit deep-sea exploration community, OceanGate’s submersible dives were reckless and often dangerous, writes best-selling author Susan Casey."
Do you remember this story. Here's a really interesting article about what might have happened.
What Does an A Really Mean?
Link: What Does an A Really Mean?: "We asked professors, students, and high-school counselors."
A very important question to think about. It's a little more abstract and high level than defining learning objectives. I found it an excellent exercise.
Deploy on Your Own Servers
Link: Deploy on Your Own Servers: "Fastest way to deploy a Rails app!"
Once Heroku got rid of their free tier, we all wanted alternatives. Doku is one of them. It lets you create your very own Heroku service on top of a cheap Digitial Ocean partition.
Twirp: Make serving a Twirp RPC Services as easy and familiar as Rails controllers.
Link: Twirp: Make serving a Twirp RPC Services as easy and familiar as Rails controllers.: "Make serving a Twirp RPC Services as easy and familiar as Rails controllers. - collectiveidea/twirp-rails"
Interesting GEM. Twirp is an RPC format and protocol from Twitch. Looks useful.
ankane/ahoy: Simple, powerful, first-party analytics for Rails
Link: ankane/ahoy: Simple, powerful, first-party analytics for Rails: "Simple, powerful, first-party analytics for Rails. Contribute to ankane/ahoy development by creating an account on GitHub."
Remember this gem. It looks really useful for collecting stats from Rails based sites.
Generating fake data using SQL
Link: Generating fake data using SQL: "Fake data are very useful in development environment for testing your application or some query performances for example. In this Blog Post I’ll share how I ..."
Some fancy sql technique to create masses of fake data efficiently. Note: no Ruby or Python involved!
5 Practical SQL CTE Examples
Link: 5 Practical SQL CTE Examples: "In this article, we’ll go through several examples to see how SQL CTEs can help you with complex calculations and hierarchical data structures."
Just heard about CTE (Common Table Expressions). They are a feature of SQL. Not sure whether all SQLs or just Postgres. A way to refactor a complicated SQL statement into substagements.
SQL CTEs Explained with Examples
Link: SQL CTEs Explained with Examples: "Want to learn how to better organize your SQL queries with Common Table Expressions (CTEs)? Check out this guide!"
roidrage/lograge: An attempt to tame Rails' default policy to log everything.
Link: roidrage/lograge: An attempt to tame Rails' default policy to log everything.: "An attempt to tame Rails' default policy to log everything. - roidrage/lograge"
This is a useful Rails gem which will consolidate log file data and allows you to easily add additional info to it.
Code. Simply. Clearly. Calmly.
Link: Code. Simply. Clearly. Calmly.: "Short and simple video lessons that start from scratch. Tools and thoughts that might make your professional life more enjoyable."
Amazing that this comprehensive tutorial site is totally free. Useful.