Double Shot #2499
- SQL Murder Mystery - Cute exercise for practcing your SQL skills.
- Hammerspoon - "This is a tool for powerful automation of OS X. At its core, Hammerspoon is just a bridge between the operating system and a Lua scripting engine. What gives Hammerspoon its power is a set of extensions that expose specific pieces of system functionality, to the user."
- Bitbar - "Put anything in your Mac OS X menu bar" with lots of available plugins.
- dockerpi - "Gives you access to a virtualised ARM based Raspberry Pi machine running the Raspian operating system" via a Docker image.
- Transaction isolation levels from the trenches - Watch out for "read committed".
- Nushell - The Cross Platform Shell - An introduction to this new Rust-powered shell.
- How clouds impact environment - Every cat picture brings us one step closer to climate change.
- Prevent Flaky UI Tests from Killing Your CI - Testing through the browser is seductive, but in my experience it's almost always a disaster area. Here's a method for using HAR tests to avoid nondeterminism issues.
- RuboCop and Git - There's no direct integration, but it's easy to build a command that checks only changed files.
- How tracking pixels work - Possibly the worst online invention ever.
- The Pros and Cons of Running Production Databases as Containers - Managing them can be tricky.
- How Shopify Manages API Versioning and Breaking Changes - What a mature versioning system for widely-used software looks like.
- The State of JavaScript 2019 - The survey results are in.
- http-decision-diagram - "An activity diagram to describe the resolution of HTTP response status codes, given various headers, implemented via semantical callbacks." Good grief this stuff has gotten complex.