Double Shot #2044
- Please - Cross-language build system written in Go.
- Don’t Fear The Rebase - A walk through what git rebase actually does.
- Guide to using YubiKey as a SmartCard for GPG and SSH - I keep thinking that I should get around to this some time.
Double Shot #2043
- Komponent - Opinionated front-end organization for Rails applications with a modern UI stack.
- A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors - Hacker News may not be as simple as you think.
- Introducing CloudMapper: An AWS Visualization Tool - Interactive browser-based diagrams of AWS infrastructure.
- Gitleaks - An easy way to scan git repositories for things that shouldn't be there.
- New Features of Bootstrap 4 Web Development Framework - A pretty extensive list of new stuff to play with.
Double Shot #2042
- ValidatedObject - "Plain Old Ruby Objects + Rails Validations"
- Brightbox Ruby NG - Ubuntu PPAs now updated to include Ruby 2.5.
- Finding Pwned Passwords With 1Password - The 1Password web app is now wired up to Troy Hunt's checking service.
- The Truth about Estimating Software Development Time - Oh yes.
Double Shot #2041
- Flavors of Engineering Management - A look at three ways that an engineering management career can unfold.
- Ruby 2.6.0-preview1 Released - Your chance to kick the tires on the coming JIT compiler.
- Containers won the battle, but will lose the war to serverless — Simon Wardley - An argument that all those DevOps and container skills you're desperately trying to learn will soon be obsolete.
- Testing Database Changes the Right Way - By using a shadow copy of your production database with production load.
- Wallaby: a newcomer in the admin interface market - For rails, that is.
- An Overview of JavaScript Testing in 2018 - More than I want to know, but if you're doing front-end probabaly useful.
Double Shot #2040
- Five Models for Making Sense of Complex Systems - A taxonomy of some useful bits of visual thinking.
- What to do when tech jobs go bad - A bestiary of dysfunctions and possible cures. It's depressing how many of these I've lived through.
- A practical look at basic AWS Networking with Terraform - Pretty thorough Terraform-based tutorial.
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Double Shot #2039
- JMESPath - A query language for JSON.
- My professional opinion as a blockchain researcher: I don’t see the point (yet) - Really, if you've got money to burn you could just send it to me instead of buying Bitcoins.
- Containers Patterns - A whole mess of different ways to use Docker containers, both for development and in running applications.
- Serverless: who’s on call now? - Who gets the page at 3AM when there's no server involved?
- 2.0 - Asciinema 2.0 that is, with a new file format and real-time streaming.
- Railswiki - A wiki implemented as a Rails 5 engine.
- Deprecation notice: Removing anonymous gist creation - One less way to anonymously get things out into the world.
- It's perfectly fine to only code at work, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. - Yes, yes it is.
Double Shot #2038
- Rainbow Deploys with Kubernetes - The logical successor to blue-green deployments: use ALL the colors!
- Running a modern infrastructure on Kubernetes - A quick look at a lot of ancillary things like service discovery, monitoring, and logging.
- GraphQL Introduction & Quick Guide for BackEnd & FrontEnd - A rather whirlwind tour but enough to give you the flavor.
- GhostText - Chrome & Firefox extensions, along with various editor add-ins, to allow using text editors to fill in browser fields.
- Ruby concurrency: building a timeout queue - Build a queue with blocking pop behavior that only blocks until it times out.
- Takehome - Coding challenges as a service.
- Test, Measure, Learn: What Agile Testing Metrics Can Teach You about Your Testing Process - Basic but important.
- Fork and Pull Request Workflow - A pretty deep dive into the most popular style of open source project management on GitHub.
Double Shot #2037
- How To Build and Run A Geographically Distributed Engineering Team - I'm sure having enough money to fly everyone in three times a year helps.
- Rails 5.1.5 has been released - Why yes, so it has.
- Serverless Databases: The Future of Event-Driven Architecture - A pretty deep look at architecture, use-cases, entrants in the market, and more.
- Refrigerator - Freeze all of the Ruby core classes so nothing sneaks up on you.
- Manifesto for Async Software Development - Claims to be a 21st-century successor to agile.
- Advantages of monolithic version control - Why you might want to keep all of your company's code in one big repo.
- CSS Frameworks - A list of a whole lot of them.
- 3 simple tricks for smaller Docker images - Things you can throw overboard to save space.
Double Shot #2036
- Why I don't use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website - This is depressing, and completely predictable.
- Google Images Direct Links and Viewimage - It didn't take the Internet long to route around the damage of Google Image Search removing the "view image" button.
- 4 Tips for Successful Remote 1-1s - Advice from an experienced manager.
- Humming along - Analyzing RubyGems stats for 2017 - Looking at download rates for some popular packages.
- Multiple vulnerabilities in RubyGems - It's time to update rubygems again.
- Speeding up Ruby with Shared Strings - Mucking around inside of the language.
- just-dashboard - Turn JSON or YAML files stored as a gist into pretty dashboards.
- GitFinder - Git client with macOS Finder integration. 30-day trial, $24.95 after that.
Double Shot #2035
- Velocity - Code Climate is moving forward from evaluating code to evaluating engineers.
- Sourcegraph Server 2.5: Introducing code change alerts - Get your own source code search, right on your desktop (in a Docker image).
- Slack is the opposite of organizational memory - Yup, Slack basically sucks. But good luck trying to get rid of it.
Double Shot #2034
- Navigating the rough seas of environment scaling with Ahoy! - A better plan for staging environments for complex projects.
- Everything Easy is Hard Again - A web designer reflects on all the crap we've added to front-end design in the past 20 years.
- GitPrime - Put together metrics from your git history for better engineering management.
- VLC 3.0 - Major update of this free media player that does just about everything.
Double Shot #2033
- John Perry Barlow, Internet Pioneer, 1947-2018 - If it wasn't for Barlow and the EFF, I doubt the internet would be letting me publish this.
- Keyboard in Acetone - Strangely satisfying.
- Playing with ruby's new JIT: MJIT - Improvements on the performance front are on the way for Ruby 3.0.
- TablePlus - New commercial database UI for MacOS.
- Protect your site from Cryptojacking with CSP + SRI - These days sites get hacked wholesale. Do you know for sure where your javascript is coming from?
Double Shot #2032
- Metal renderer - Speed up your iTerm2 with a new renderer.
- Chain of Fools - Blockchain bad. Any questions?
- SSH Mastery, 2nd Edition - $10 ebook that I should probably read.
- Containers Will Not Fix Your Broken Culture (and Other Hard Truths) - You mean there's STILL no silver bullet?
Double Shot #2031
- Carbon - Free service to make pretty screenshots of code.
- modernish: a shell moderniser library - Extend your shell using your shell.
- Happy 6th Birthday, Sidekiq - Celebrate with some new releases.
Double Shot #2030
- Kubernetes January Round Up - A bunch of interesting projects inside the Kubernetes ecosystem.
- A Tour with Firefox Dev-Tools - Slideshow covering a bunch of the recent features for debugging inside of Firefox.
- If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week? - A darned good question.
- 12 best practices for user account, authorization and password management - Advice from the Google Cloud Platform folks.
- Progressing from tech to leadership - One "geek at heart"'s collection of advice about entering management.
- Let's push things forward - Ruby Toolbox relaunches with support from Ruby Together.
- Unlearning Toxic Behaviors in a Code Review Culture - An excellent look at the social side of code reviews.
Double Shot #2029
- Understanding RPC, REST and GraphQL - A book chapter that you can read for free.
- Bulma: CSS framework you should consider in 2018 - A reasonably simple, lightweight, responsive contender.
- GRV - Written in Go, this one is "a terminal based interface for viewing git repositories."
- On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git - Choose-your-own-adventure style advice to dealing with tricky situations.
- How One Jira Ticket Made My Employer $1MM/Month: 7 Metrics that Actually Matter - Not all issues are created equal.
- A Roundup of Managed Kubernetes Platforms - Plenty of choices out there these days.
- Microservice Madness - Some of the pitfalls you might encounter.
Double Shot #2028
- Rails 5.2: Active Storage and beyond - Evil Martians dig into the just-about-released Rails 5.2.
- localer - Tool for auditing localization completeness in Rails applications.
- How I Manage My Data - A plan for backups and sharing with an emphasis on privacy.
- Gemnasium is acquired by GitLab, the future of version control is built-in security - GitLab continues to find ways to compete against the 500-pound gorilla.
- Amazon Aurora Postgres: First thoughts - Spoiler alert: not suitable for all workloads.
- How we improved webpack build performance by 95% - Advice from Box on optimizing a large multi-locale application.
- Awesome Ruby - A running pulse of interesting new things.
Double Shot #2027
- Preventing data leaks by stripping path information in HTTP Referrers - Another little bit of privacy protection from Mozilla.
- The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes - Y'all are wearing me out. Maybe it's time to get back into management.
- Application Security in a DevOps Environment - How lyft's AppSec team manages on a bigger code base than you're probably worrying about.
- Rails 5.2.0 RC1: Active Storage, Redis Cache Store, HTTP/2 Early Hints, CSP, Credentials - Looks like it's just about baked now.
- Passenger 5.2.0: deterministic config, Ruby 2.5, fixed license warning - Minor version update that includes Ruby 2.5 fixes.
Double Shot #2026
- <a href=https://kanbanflow.com/"">KanbanFlow</a> - Simple online kanban board (with a free plan) that I hadn't seen before.
- Microsoft Disables Spectre Mitigations Due to Instability - The shitstorm continues.
- In praise of SWARMing - Large-scale change without buying a packaged "solution" is...hard.
- Wargames - Hosted online security training open to all.
Double Shot #2025
- Should that be a Microservice? Keep These Six Factors in Mind - Some guidance from Pivotal.
- Ransomware as a Service - Some developers are definitely part of the problem.
- Advanced SQL - Common Table Expressions - Some fun with PostgreSQL.
- ansible-interactive-tutorial - A Docker-based learning environment for Ansible.
- PonziCoin - An honest ICO.
- Amp - Modal terminal-based text editor that aims to keep things simple.
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