All my blog posts and articles
TechRabbit: Makara: a read-write splitting adapter for Active Record An alternative to Octopus as a solution to shard databases tags: activerecord rails sharding partitioning databases Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Micromessaging: Connecting Heroku Microservices w/Redis and RabbitMQ A brief article explaining different architectures for Microservices on Heroku. tags: [reddis](https://www.diigo.com/...
Read more →Regexper tags: regexp regularexpressions [Developing a Ruby on Rails app with Docker Compose – blindsi...
Read more →Weekly Command: processing JSON with jq tags: cli command json [processing](https://www.d...
Read more →Workers at risk as robots set to replace 66m jobs, warns OECD | Business | The Guardian tags: workers [robots](https://www.diigo.com/user...
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IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet Music Great resource tags: music classical library Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Rails Refactoring Techniques – Concerns | Best Practice on Ruby on Rails | Hire Ruby on Rails developers tags: Rails ruby [best practice](h...
Read more →I came across my old blog that I’ve not posted to in 3 years and, well, found some really good stuff. I recently dropped all social media because it had become a total time sync. Bit yeah, some really good stuff. Also WordPress is a very nice platform. It’s evolved right under me and now it’s downright pleasant to use. Maybe… Should I start blogging again?
I spent over an frustrating hour on the phone yesterday with Bank Of America and Paypal trying to sort out what a charge that was showing up on my credit card. All of $4,200.00. So nothing small. It turned out that it was correct, but the description was so incorrect that it was impossible for me to...
Read more →I came across a wonderful quote about intellectual property. I am not sure I agree with it myself but wanted to share it. It is from Carsie Blanton’s blog post “New Rules for the Music Business” and it goes like this: > ““Intellectual property” is an absurd concep...
Read more →In the world of machine vision, the equivalent goal is to win the ImageNet Large-Scale Visual Recognition Challenge. This is a competition that has run every year since 2010 to evaluate image recognition algorithms. (It is designed to follow-on from a similar project called PASCAL VOC which ran from 2005 until 2012) Click to read the article.
I’ve seen commentary that it’s “disappointingly familiar”, i.e. it looks just like several other computer watches, like the Pebble or even the [iPod Nano attache...
Read more →The most-read article in the history of [The New Republic] is not about war, politics, or great works of art. It’s about the admissions policies of a handful of elite universities, most prominently my employer, Harvard, which is figuratively and literally immolated on the cover. It’s not surprisin...
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