All my blog posts and articles
fast.ai – Mojo may be the biggest programming language advance in decades –Mojo is a new programming language, based on Python, which fixes Python’s performance and deployment problems.
Advanced Active Record –Optimizing Performance and Robustness with Locking, UUIDs, Fulltext Search, Database Views, and Geospatial Data
Ruby’s Switch Statement is More Flexible Than You Thought –Ruby’s switch statement is very versatile and flexible, especially due to the dynamic nature of Ruby. In this post, we’ll see how you can use it in various ways. We’ll also learn why it works the way it works. Hint: it uses the === operator (method) under the hood.
The Ruby on Rails SaaS Template | Bullet Train –Bullet Train is a Ruby on Rails SaaS-in-a-Box that saves developers months of effort and new founders tens of thousands of dollars.
ChatPDF – Chat with any PDF! –ChatPDF is the fast and easy way to chat with any PDF, free and without sign-in. Talk to books, research papers, manuals, essays, legal contracts, whatever you have! The intelligence revolution is here, ChatGPT was just the beginning!
How to Load Code in Ruby | AppSignal Blog –Let’s look into three options for code loading in Ruby: using load, require, and autoload. This is a very useful review and also explains more about zeitwerk.
Your teens should be on the phone | Semafor –The evidence on whether social media is harmful is ambiguous, and cutting teens off from social media means cutting them off from their friends.
The Founders Talk podcast –In-depth, one-on-one conversations with founders, CEOs, and makers. The journey, lessons learned, and the struggles. Let's do this!
The Best Smokers Under $500 for Ribs, Pork, Brisket, and More –Whether you want a wood, charcoal, gas, pellet, or electric model, we have our top picks for smokers for less than $500.
Camp Chef Smoke Vault 24″ Review –Many gas smokers have limited temperature range and can’t get down and hold low and slow temps of 225⁰. We reviewed this big beauty that can go down to 160⁰ and crank up to 400⁰! AND it converts to natural gas so you don’t have to worry about you LP tank running out. We tested this model and gave it our AmazingRibs.com Platinum Medal.
Why I Stopped Using Sorbet in All My Ruby Projects –And why I think you should stop using it too
Building GitHub with Ruby and Rails | The GitHub Blog –Since the beginning, GitHub.com has been a Ruby on Rails monolith. Today, the application is nearly two million lines of code and more than 1,000 engineers collaborate on it daily. We deploy as often as 20 times a day, and nearly every week one of those deploys is a Rails upgrade. Upgrading Rails weekly Every […]
Line maze algorithm –If you are experimenting with Robots and want to solve an intricate maze that has lines. this articles has some good insights and algorithms.
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names | Kalzumeus Software –
Zed – Code at the speed of thought –Just to prove that theres never the last word on anything, especially programmers editors. I thought history ended with vscode. But take a look st this, pretty tantilizing! Author says: “Code at the speed of thought. Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.”
Use ChatGPT From The Command Line With This Wrapper –ChatGPT Wrapper is an unofficial open source command-line interface and Python API for interacting with ChatGPT.
How to draw towns and cities for fantasy maps | The Kid Should See This –Non technical, but i love sketching and drawing to pass the time. Author says: “Practice drawing little houses and towers. Then level them up with dimensional views and clusters that create different styles of towns and cities…”
Ethical alternatives to revenue-generating deceptive patterns –Interesting alternatives to so-called “dark patterns”. Author says: “Avoiding deception and building trust: the power of ethical revenue generation with transparent patterns.”
