• State of the 2017 Rails Stack - The latest numbers from Scout about usage trends.
• From OSX to Ubuntu - Notes from a developer who made the switch.
• Welcome the new Ubuntu-based Precision line-up - More machines with Linux preinstalled straight from Dell.

• Scale Out Multi-Tenant Apps based on Ruby on Rails - An Active Record extension gem to make this easier.
• Git crecord - Interactively select changes to commit or stage in your terminal.
• The Calm Company (our next book) - An announcement from 37 Signals. They're not the only ones seeking sanity at work, that's for sure.

• Zazu - Open source hot key application launcher. Haven't tried it yet, but I've been looking for something for my linux boxen so I'll probably give it a spin.
• Rails Security Checklist - A long list of things to check that hopes to get even longer with community input.
• git-fiddle - Allow editing author names and commit dates during an interactive rebase.

• Concurrency in Rails 5.0 - An exploration of some new and (so-far) undocumented things under the hood.
• Fork - "A fast and friendly git client for Mac". I've been playing with this a bit (I mostly use GUI clients for looking at history) and I like the tabbed UI.
• Ruby Web Dev: The Other Way and Learn Ruby on Rails 5 - A couple of new ebooks to start the new year.

• Hyperpolyglot - Side by side comparisons of a bunch of different programming languages and tools.
• Portainer, the UI for Docker - Tour of a lightweight management tool for Docker images & swarms. Looks like I'm about to be back in Dockerland soon.
• ngrok - Service to provide a secure tunnel into localhost with a public URL so you can test things like webhooks.

• RbNaCl - Version 4.0 of this opinionated cryptography library is out.
• Ruby 2.4.0 Released - A Christmas present from the Ruby team. You can read about new features.
• Rails_admin Vulnerability Disclosure - There's a CSRF in versions of this admin gem after mid-August. Upgrade to fix.

• AnyCable: Action Cable on Steroids - A more performant alternative to Action Cable.
• Stack on a budget - A whole pile of SAAS offerings with useful free tiers for small applications.
• Firebug lives on in Firefox DevTools - FireBug as a separate add-in is dead. It was nice while it lasted. Fortunately it looks like most of it was salvaged.

• The New and Improved Privacy Badger 2.0 Is Here - I am not one of those people who feel a moral imperative to be tracked and view ads.
• SQL Server on Linux: How? Introduction - The architecture Microsoft used to bring their flagship database to multiple platforms.
• The Longflow Manifesto - "The longflow model is an engineering-centric workflow for serious software developers, tired of the "Agile"/"Scrum" bullshit." Works for me.

• Bitbucket vs GitHub: The Best Version Control Software for Business? - This evaluation comes down on the side of Bitbucket.
• Ruby 2.4.0-rc1 Released - Sheesh, I'm just barely done upgrading to 2.3.
• DatabaseFlusher - Another alternative for cleaning out your database between test runs.

• Coverband - Production code coverage for ruby 2.1+, to find the stuff that you can get rid of because it's not being used.
• MindMapIt - Quick browser-based tool for turning YAML into a simple mind map.
• Elixir, Ruby, don't fight. Talk...with Erlix - How to set up interop by making a Ruby process act as an Erlang node.

• Homebrew and PostgreSQL 9.5 (or 9.6) - Perhaps I'll remember this the next time the alternative is to swear for an hour because I accidentally did a version upgrade on PostgreSQL.
• github-changelog-generator - Flexible MarkDown changelog builder for projects that make use of GitHub issues & PRs.
• jsonapi-rb - JSON API library for Ruby with extra syntactic sugar for use in Rails.

• Google Public NTP - A companion service to the widely-used Google DNS servers. Note that they're using leap second smearing, which may not be what you want.
• htop explained - Everything you wanted to know and quite a bit more.
• Docker for AWS Public Beta - "Docker for AWS installs a Swarm of Docker Engines secured end to end with TLS by default, and is integrated with AWS Autoscaling, Elastic Load balancer and Elastic Block Store."

• Oversight - Another useful tool for the mildly paranoid Mac owner (you're not really paranoid, the malware IS out to get you!).
• Webinspector - Rubygem to scrape image URLs, metatags, and links from any web page.
• Code review in remote teams - How to do code reviews to improve both code quality and morale.

• Introduction to generating JSON using PostgreSQL - Let the database do it!
• Webhooks do's & dont's: what we learned after integrating +100 APIs: Advice from the folks behind Stamplay.
• [ANN] Rails 5.0.1.rc1 has been released! - Another bunch of updates and bug fixes are on the way.

• DNS Leak Test - See whether your ISP is hijacking your DNS queries.
• cssreference.io - Visual/animated guide to CSS properties.
• Say Hello to CircleCI 2.0 - Updates coming to one of the good online continuous integration services.

Feels like I should declare independence from something. Maybe macOS.

• Zeal - Offline documentation browser for software developers. Like Dash, but cross-platform.
• macOS Security and Privacy Guide - Huge list of things you can do to tighten up Mac security.
• GitPlex - A code review tool for git repositories.

Happy Turkey Day, y'all

• Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time - Have some fun by letting a bot engage spammers on your behalf.
• Ruby 2.3.3 Released - With some fairly important gems changes since 2.3.1.
• FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro - Just in case you want a new thing to soak up all your spare time.

• Rodauth - Full-featured authentication and account management framework for rack applications (not just Rails)
• NIST's new password rules - what you need to know - A large part of what you need to know is that making your user's lives miserable does not necessarily correlate with improving security.
• Webhooks do’s and dont’s: what we learned after integrating +100 APIs - Lots of advice here for when you're ready to move beyond REST.

• Rails SQL Injection - Lots of things you should not do with Active Record.
• DIY Kunernetes Cluster with x86 stick-pcs - I'm desperately trying to resist building this.
• stub_server - Instead of just stubbing replies, boot up a real server to serve them.

• Sublime Gem Browser - If you use ST2/3 and Bundler, this plugin will let you pop open the source code for any gem in your current project directly.
• SQL Server v.Next Public Preview - Now available on Linux. I really need to find time to take a look at this.
• PoisonTap - Stick a USB stick in a locked computer and pretty much own the whole thing in short order. This is why we can't have nice things.