Double Shot #1847

REST Anti-Patterns - Arguments about what is and is not REST are right up there with arguing about "best" editors. Still, there are some things that make it harder to interoperate, and this article runs through a pile of them.
Hatch - $15/month gets you a tool that sets up Ruby, Nginx, passenger, PostgreSQL, Redis, ActionCable, and more on Digital Ocean servers.
Gigalixir - Platform-as-a-Service for Elixir and Phoenix applications, including clustering, hot upgrades, and other goodies.
CircleCI integration for Elixir/Phoenix project - A quick example of the new flexibility in the CircleCI 2.0 beta.
Remote Non-Senior Developers, Part 1: What Your Company Should Look For - I'm happy to see more explicit thought about remote-first work these days. It's been a challenging few decades on that front.
An API for Everything - Yes, there is one. Some of them might even be useful.
bundleup - Color-coded report of the changes that bundler would make if you let it update. This one is going in my toolbox alongside bundler-audit.
Standing Up to a Dangerous New Breed of Patent Troll - Cloudflare is fighting back against the trolls, including offering bounties to put them out of business. And in other stupid patent news, Moom removed from sale.
The OpenLink Structured Data Sniffer (OSDS) - Addon to extract web page metadata in Chrome, Firefox, or Edge.
I Don't Believe in Blockchain - Time Bray tosses some well-deserved skepticism at one of the current VC darlings.