All my blog posts and articles
WTF :: WTF – the terminal dashboard
A kind of crazy cool dashboard for all kinds of info all in text suitable for display in. Terminal window.
Another very useful text processing tool for text based data files.
tags: text cli validation txt cue
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4 Rules for Intuitive UX – Learn UI Design
Fantastic set of really low hanging fruit UI rules. Stuff that anyone can apply and fix and mistakes you should never make!
tags: UI howto explainer rules UX
A pretty good, to great, overview of the bits and pieces that make up Kubernetes
tags: howto explainer kubernetes
The GVL and C Extensions – a cooperative partnership
very interesting way to embed C in ruby, if you’re into that kind of thing!
Yes, but, do we need another shell? Do we all have to learn Rust? What about a shell framework that will embed any language?
Advanced multi-db techniques in Rails 6
Great new features in rails 6 — support of multi database models
tags: rails techniques database scalability multi
Great list. One I had I idea existed is warn_indent. Hello Python?
A Complete Guide to the Ruby Programming World – Learn Worthy
A nice comprehensive review of the world of the ruby programming language, my personal favorite right now.
tags: programming guide ruby overview
Everything old is new again
https://fili.pp.ru/leaky-constants.html
Good to know!
Nice loggers
tags: github logging structured terminal
Scripting and automating git processes
This one is pretty eclectic but if you find yourself writing a script in ruby or python or bash and you need to respond in the logic to what’s going on in git, then you will find some very useful tips here.
Goodbye ActiveRecord! – Inside Aircall – Medium
Always wanted to learn more about this new Orm
tags: rom activerecord gems libraries orm
This is very cool and useful too!
Linux Applications Performance: Introduction – Unixism
A comprehensive look at how web (http) servers work
tags: performance scalability http example
This is an AMAZING collection of graphs. Great to have a ruby binding. Haven’t tried it yet but looks very worth while.
tags: charts howto tools gem ruby interactive
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strong_password v0.0.7 rubygem hijacked
Interesting description of how a public library or gem can be taken over, and modified to create an all powerful backdoor.
tags: password hacking ruby security gems attack
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Ten Reasons Why I Don’t Like Golang
I thought I wanted to learn golang, now I am not so sure…
tags: golang critique complaints
The world in which IPv6 was a good design
A deceptively chatty but still very dense and technical tour through the history of internet protocols. I got through 3/4 of it before getting lost. Very good.
tags: internet ...
Plotly | Make charts and dashboards online
An amazing graphing and plotting web site
tags: plotting charting visuals visualization