
April 2021


CKEditor 5 v11.0.0 released
We are happy to report the release of CKEditor 5 v11.0.0. This version brings a few new features (the block toolbar, the autosave plugin, Electron support), many improvements (typing on Android, selection stability and selection handle for tables) and an upgrade to webpack 4. Read on!

Powering your Ruby & Rails development with Pry! – Tiago Parreira – Medium
Every ruby developer owes it to yourself to learn and use PRY. I will got farther and say that there should be a pry for all languages!

Freezing Python’s Dependency Hell in 2018 – tech-at-instacart
One of the many reasons I prefer Ruby over Python. Not to say I don’t use python when I need to. Data Science, Robotics, etc.

“The Lean Startup” is an unproductive legend
The promise of innovating with little and the tale of startup “nimbleness” and “heroism” are so evocative that they are difficult to let go.

Why I can't recommend Clean Architecture by Robert C Martin
Software architecture is an important topic. Let me explain why you might want to skip reading Clean Architecture and what you should read instead.

Webmentions: Enabling Better Communication on the Internet
Very interesting underused feature in web communication

Histograms and Density Plots in Python – Towards Data Science
Visualizing One-Dimensional Data in Python

klauscfhq/taskbook
Quirky cli tool for task management. Some people want everything in the shell.
thisredone/rb
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!
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.

Markov Chains explained visually
A really clear visual explanation of what a Markova chain is and what it is good for.
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.

Does ActionCable Smell Like Rails? — Appfolio Engineering
ActionCable is a very powerful subsystem in Rails to create server push scenarios easily.

The Role of Color in UX
The emotional impact of interface colors shouldn’t be overlooked. And while some colors are “universal” in UI design (such as black, white, and gray, at least one of which is used in virtually every good design out there), the colors with which they’re combined can have a huge impact on a product’s UX.
How to configure RSpec in Ruby on Rails
I’m not personally an rspec fan, but lots of people are

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 a user is)

Git commands to keep a fork up to date
Forking with git, and just creating and merging branches can be very confusing.

A few less-known Ruby (on Rails) methods, pt 1.: Array
Have you already tried to re-invent a wheel and re-write perfectly valid methods that exist in Ruby? Here’re some of them.