Link Blog
April 2021
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!
Indexes on Rails: How to make the most of your Postgres database - Karol Galanciak - Ruby on Rails and Ember.js consultant
Excellent advanced info on crating dB indexes, looking at query plans to understand performance.
Is Rails still relevant in 2018 ?
Answering the perennial question, once again, in the positive.
Is your Rails app ready for Production? | AkitaOnRails.com
An excellent review of the various issues you have to consider when deciding the put your rails app into production.
Confusing concurrency concepts in Java (2017 talk) : java
Really hard concurrency concepts.
Migrating from Paperclip to ActiveStorage – The Miners
WebSockets - A Conceptual Deep-Dive
Websockets is important to understand if you’re going to be a full stack Dev.
Rails 5 Action Cable with Multiple Chatroom Subscriptions
Rails Actioncable is complicated. Here are a series of links about it.
An Introduction to ActionCable in Rails 5 - Samuel Mullen
Rails Actioncable is complicated. Here are a series of links about it.
Fish shell 3.0
Big news! If you aren’t using the Fish shell yet, what are you waiting for? It’s practically 100% compatible with bash and is 190x better in certain areas!
Refactoring — oops, I’ve been doing it backwards. – freeCodeCamp.org
Good insights about becoming slave to rules without remembering why you’re do8ng it!
Problem solving with Unix commands
Just proves yet again that with the Unix command line you can do anything!
Sinatra/Heroku microservices | silk and spinach
How to build microservices on Heroku with Sinatra. Realy useful!
How to use Docker Compose for Rails development: Do not bundle install in Dockerfile.dev
Detailed tips on what not to do when using rails with docker.
The Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test — Kolmogorov-Smirnov
I’m back looking at statistics. This KS test is one of the basic statistical tests to compare two samples.