Double Shot #2512
- Evolving Threat series — Infiltrating Python’s Software Supply Chain - Given the dependency management dumpster fire that we've created, it's a safe bet that we'll see more high-profile supply chain attacks in 2020.
- The Comprehensive Guide to Speaking at Technology Conferences in 2020 - Giving talks is a good way to up your profile in software-land, as long as you're not a complete hermit.
- Chronologic Versioning 2019.05.19 - An alternative to semver.
- Authoritarian Nations Are Turning the Internet Into a Weapon - And depending on who you work for, you're helping them.
- Rails User Auth - It's been a few years, time for a new authentication system.
- Kno Ruby - Or if you prefer you could go with passwordless authentication.
- UnicodePlot - Plot your data by Unicode characters - So you can add charts to your CLI code.
- Cut Your RSpec/Minitest Runtime With TestProf - The first step to speeding things up is figuring out where the slowdowns are.
- How to use Query Objects to refactor Rails SQL-queries - A technique for tidying up messy controller code.
- Eventide on Rails - Integrating this pub/sub and event sourcing system directly with Rails apps.
- Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers - I'm not necessarily a fan of Big Labor in this country, but I think they're preferable to Big Tech.
- Ruby on Rails Sentry logger installation and configuration - My current project uses Sentry and I'm pretty happy with it.
- It is perfectly OK to only code at work, you can have a life too. - A message that bears repeating.
- Half of the websites using WebAssembly use it for malicious purposes - Well that's just depressing, though it's not clear how good the sample was.