Some great links for 11/02/2019
Very nice python interface to control a robot that hides a lot of the complexity (at the cost of flexibility of course)
Some great links for 10/21/2019
There are numerous tools used by internal google developers that are not available outside. This is a list of similar tools that are open source and available to all.
tags: tools google services howto list
A wonderful trip down memory lane of code that had a huge impact in history. The only one that seems to be missing is Y2K.
tags: bugs hacks code interesting history
Some great links for 10/16/2019
These people have one of the largest rails apps. They know what they are talking about!
tags: Shopify rails howto tips performance
Some great links for 10/15/2019
if this works, it’s super useful to overcome the annoying fact that Heroku dynos go to sleep and need to be woken up.
tags: explanation hacks performance Heroku howto
Some great links for 10/13/2019
Really great rundown of less known features of Postgres!
tags: tips features explanation postgres
Some great links for 10/10/2019
Super useful modern rundown of low hanging fruit performance tips for rails.
tags: performance rails tips ruby
Some great links for 10/07/2019
Surprising and useful way to think about correct SQL statements.
Some great links for 10/06/2019
I use ruby instead of bash scripting. It’s a nicer language , and oh, I know it really well.
Some great links for 10/02/2019
Super useful new gem that lets you get rails like auto loading in any ruby program
Some great links for 10/01/2019
Really nice taxonomy of database types in history.
tags: taxonomy database types explainer
Always great to see another clarification of this important technique.
tags: scalability scale sharing performance
You may or may not agree with these formatting ideas.
tags: formatting ruby style code