Some great links for 09/11/2018
tags: code examples oneliner ruby
Developers Should Abandon Agile
tags: Agile
Using Lambdas to Simplify Varying Behaviors in Your Code
tags: code ...
All my blog posts and articles
A gem containing functionality to represent, import and export spreadsheets
tags: rails ruby Spreadsheets
Excellent advanced info on crating dB indexes, looking at query plans to understand performance.
tags: ...
iridakos – Creating a Linux Desktop application with Ruby
A really nice tutorial explaining how to write a gui app on Linux using Ruby.
tags: creating linux desktop ruby glade gtk+
Git commands to keep a fork up to date
Forking with git, and just c...
How to configure RSpec in Ruby on Rails
I’m not personally an rspec fan, but lots of people are
tags: ruby ruby on rails rspec configure
Using Pundit for authorization in Rails – recipes and best practices
Authorization is the management of who is allowed to do what (vs. authentication which is accurate identification of who ...
How a Kalman filter works, in pictures
Kalman filters are a mathematical process for smoothing out a noisy signal (its more complicated than that) its a central algorithm in robotics and real time sensing systems in general.
tags: Kalman robot kalmanfilter sensors
This is very interesting and cool way to use ruby for fancy cli scripts, like people often use AWK. I haven’t quite figured out how to use it but it’s cool!
Markov Chains explained visually
A really clear visual explanation of what a Markova chain is and what it is good for.
tags: markovchains visual explanation
Python Tuples and Tuple Methods | Codementor
Python doesn’t have arrays… but it does have lists and tuples. Actually lists are arrays. And tuples are … different … and don’t seem that useful. But this article explains it all.
Webmentions: Enabling Better Communication on the Internet
Very interesting underused feature in web communication
tags: api hooks web webmentions
Extreme Makeover: Code Edition
Pretty straight up advice. Oldies but goodies.