All my blog posts and articles
How to write Javascript in Rails 6 | Webpacker, Yarn and Sprockets A good introduction to the very confusing combination of JavaScript, yarn, css, etc in rails 6. Hopefully they will clean this up in rails 7. tags: javascript yarn rails Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
jq – CLI for JSON files This is an amazing tool when you need it. Do queries, merges, filters on json files. You only need it once or twice a year but when you need it, it’s a life saver! tags: json tool howto Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
SSL Cert Rotation with Runbook | dev/blesi More about Runbook my favorite automation tool so far! tags: ssl cert rotation runbook Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Gemifying Your Style Guide to DRY Your CSS – Ruby on Rails Upgrades A very nice technique to build a gem with all your css and js in one place. tags: ruby on rails ...
Read more →Dicts are now ordered, get used to it — Read on softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2020/02/05/dicts-ordered/en/
How to Fake a Traffic Jam on Google Maps – VICE This is really interesting and cute. Maybe too cute. Urban legend? tags: [fake](https://www.diigo.com/u...
Read more →Different Ways to Set Attributes in ActiveRecord (Rails 6) It’s always hard to remember all the different options that activerecord offers for manipulating data. tags: programming rails activerecord Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
The Cost of Investing Too Heavily in a JavaScript Framework – DEV Community For serious projects, think twice about betting totally on a big heavy framework. Make sure you really need it because you are buying into a big and permanent tax on your project. tags: javascript framework Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Goodbye, Clean Code — Overreacted DRY. Everything in moderation. On rules and knowing when to break them. tags: dry Code [programming](https://www.diigo.com/use...
Read more →How I write backends Very nice detailed set of guidelines for a scalable node backend tags: scale web backend howto Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Python built-ins worth learning – Trey Hunner A fantastic efficient way to review most of the top methods and functions in python. tags: Python [howto](https://www.diigo.com/user/pit...
Read more →My Favorite Macbook Tools These lists come and go all the time. I learned a couple of new ones so chance it out! tags: productivity tools cli macbook Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Ruby From Other Languages If you are coming to Ruby from another programming language there are a lot of good tips here! tags: ruby learning Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Academic Torrents If you’re looking for data for your research project, this is an impressive site. It’s also a home for your large volume data. I’ve not looked at the business model or price. tags: academic datasets opendata data research Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Broot Looks like this might be useful. tags: Broot hacker cli tools Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Altair: Declarative Visualization in Python Amazing pretty visualizations in Python based on vega-lite platform tags: python jupyter visualization vega-lite Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
more handy python snippets More handy shortcuts and one liners in everyday use tags: programming howto python Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
What You Need to Know About Netflix’s ‘Jupyter Killer’: Polynote This seems pretty amazing. Jupyter Notebooks are cool but … is this cooler? tags: python netflix jupyter notebooks Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Testing Guide Martin Fowler always has interesting views and recommendations tags: [howto](https://www.diig...
Read more →The Lesson to Unlearn “The most damaging thing you learned in school wasn’t something you learned in any specific class. It was learning to get good grades.” tags: school grades paulgraham Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.