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It’s Wednesday. You’ve passed your Tuesday code-freeze because the project you’ve been working on for 6 months is about to be introduced for the first time at an industry event to hundreds of new users. The sales team is going to be talking individually with dozens of potential clients one-on-one...
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December 6, 2023
It’s Wednesday. You’ve passed your Tuesday code-freeze because the project you’ve been working on for 6 months is about to be introduced for the first time at an industry event to hundreds of new users. The sales team is going to be talking individually with dozens of potential clients one-on-one
November 30, 2023
I switch between projects all day. The projects I am switching between use different node versions. Here is an example of what it looks like when I switch projects. cjb/really_good_code/older_project $ cd ../shiny_new_project cjb/really_good_code/shiny_new_project $ bin/dev [ERROR]
October 26, 2023
Problem: Our current implementation relies on session storage to manage the open “tabs” a user has, and this is leading to improper functioning of the link_to anchor. To provide some context, we offer three tab options that users can click on to display distinct sets of information. Here is
October 11, 2023
Psst… You can use FactoryBot to test Plain ole Ruby Objects. So go ahead. Extract a PORO. Write a spec. Guaranteed to give you that ‘I made my bed today’ kind of feeling. # app/models/arrow_down.rb class ArrowDown # Build an arrow beginning at @from and ending at @to # from |-╮ |
August 10, 2023
ActiveRecord can be so seamless, that it can make something that’s relatively costly in the DB look cheap in terms of characters you need to type. One place where this crops up is in an N+1 Query. Set the scene Let’s say we have a common “Posts” with “Comments” structure of something. Here
July 3, 2023
Hello! My name is Valenzia Cina, and I am a Graphic Designer at Flagrant. Ever since I was a little kid, I had a drive to create. My parents would always say that as soon as I was able to hold a pencil I would draw for hours, my focus unbroken. I still find myself able to sit for long hours to
May 4, 2023
If you took your favorite programming language and then started pulling things out of it, where could you stop? Could you remove variables? Operator precedence? Braces, brackets, parentheses? Function arguments and return values? First off, this seems like a weird thing to think of, even
March 22, 2023
Sometimes when you’re working on a system, you find something standing in the way of progress that is so baked-in, so foundational, so fundamental that it’s hard to do anything about it. Or it’s even hard to even see at first. I like to call things like these the “original sins” of a system.
March 10, 2023
In “Understanding Comics”, Scott McCloud talks about a six-step path that the creation of art goes through. (Just to side-step any philosophical debate on “what is art?”, he himself says “the creation of any work in any medium”, and I’ll rephrase that as “any creative endeavor”. As in any time
February 22, 2023
Have you ever seen one of those push-button marionette toys? They’re basically a bunch of beads with a string running through them. When the string is tight, it holds all the beads together in shape, and you can see it as a dog, or person, or whatever. But push the button and loosen the string,
January 6, 2023
We remember the era of “move fast and break things”, right? It felt edgy and cool, but I’ve never been cool and it didn’t feel right to me. I like to focus instead on “keeping things moving” and “keeping things working”. The “move fast and break things” saying makes it sound a bit like moving
November 15, 2022
This is the sixth and final post in a series on things we explored while “Revamping the Ruby Central Conference Websites”. Lesson 1: Knowing When to Build vs Dig Lesson 2: Averting Monkey Patches with a Custom CMS Lesson 3: Braving Mad Science with Tailwind Lesson 4: Planning
November 15, 2022
This is the fifth post in a series on things we explored while “Revamping the Ruby Central Conference Websites”. Lesson 1: Knowing When to Build vs Dig Lesson 2: Averting Monkey Patches with a Custom CMS Lesson 3: Braving Mad Science with Tailwind Lesson 4: Planning HTTP/Proxy
November 15, 2022
This is the fourth post in a series on things we explored while “Revamping the Ruby Central Conference Websites”. Lesson 1: Knowing When to Build vs Dig Lesson 2: Averting Monkey Patches with a Custom CMS Lesson 3: Braving Mad Science with Tailwind Lesson 4: Planning HTTP/Proxy
November 15, 2022
This is the third post in a series on things we explored while “Revamping the Ruby Central Conference Websites”. Lesson 1: Knowing When to Build vs Dig Lesson 2: Averting Monkey Patches with a Custom CMS Lesson 3: Braving Mad Science with Tailwind ⬅︎ Lesson 4: Planning
