Double Shot #2000

Merry Christmas-ish! Two thousand of these things. Habits will eventually make you an institution.

• Ruby 2.5.0 Released - The Christmas present some of us were expecting did indeed arrive.
• Agile’s Three Leaps of Faith - Sometimes you need to suspend your disbelief to make progress with agile.
• Gitmoji - A guide to emojis for use in commit messages. Or, as I taught my children, you could use your words.
• Introducing Pointed - Mock HTTP backends as a service.
• Termipal - JavaScript GUI builder for adding a pretty face to MacOS terminal applications.
• Scott Galloway Says Amazon, Apple, Facebook, And Google should be broken up - Amen. I wish I believed it could actually happen.
• Fireworq - The obligatory "q" is a tip-off that this is "a lightweight, high-performance, language-independent job queue system."
• Danger - Automated code review chores during your CI process.
• Zen Rails Security Checklist - A depressingly long list of things that you should worry about.
• NetSPI SQL Injection Wiki - A "one stop resource for fully identifying, exploiting, and escalating SQL injection vulnerabilities."
• The Presence Prison - Do your coworkers and boss really need to know in real-time if you're paying attention?
• Alva - Interactive design tool that lets engineers & designers share the same components (as long as your components are built in React, anyhow).
• Pine - A "hassle free .gitignore manager" that draws on GitHub's repo of .gitignore files. I didn't know editing a file was a hassle, or that such a repo existed. Live and learn.
• Rust for Rubyists - A comparison of idiomatic patterns.
• Untangling Jenkins - Some lessons learned sorting out a CI process.
• Security warning for Thunderbird users and Enigmail users: vulnerabilities threaten confidentiality of communication - A security audit says "don't use RSS feeds in Thunderbird right now."