Double Shot #1771
- So You've Been Paged - A guide to incident response based on the way that Scalyr handles it.
- Regular Expressions 101 - Full-featured tester that understands a variety of regex syntax flavors.
- Ruboto 1.5.0 Released! - JRuby on Android now features working SSL, among other fixes.
Double Shot #1770
- {DevFreeBooks} - A good-sized collection of free books for developers. Currently listing 130 books in 31 categories from Android to Vim.
- Introducing the Nextcloud Box - Buy this hardware, add a Raspberry Pi, and get a 1TB private cloud.
- Webhook Tester - Test webhooks with your own unique test URL.
Double Shot #1769
- Ruby 2.4.0-preview3 released - Looks like some fun things coming down the line.
- Announcing Snyk for Ruby - Test all your GitHub repos for gem security issues.
- Work/Life Balance Will Make You a Better Software Engineer - Well, maybe. Sometimes a time-limited death march will make you a better software engineer, too.
Double Shot #1768
- Headless Browsers - A list with links. There are a lot more of these than I'd ever heard of.
- Pencil Project - Open-source cross-platform GUI prototyping tool.
- Etcher - Spiffy tool for burning images to SD cards or USB sticks from OS X.
Double Shot #1767
- Manpages - Better support for rubygems to add man pages to the right spot on the system.
- Lynis - Security auditing & hardening tool for Unix-based systems including macOS.
- Docker in Production: A History of Failure - Not sure htis is balanced, but one HFT organization appears to ahve had very bad luck with docker.
Double Shot #1766
- Profitwell - Fancy SAAS metrics dashboards for all the companies tryign to make it in SAAS. Very meta.
- Switching from macOS: The Basics - Looks like elementary OS is getting a bit of extra PR with the disappointment over the Mac Pro update.
- The People's Code - Open source portal for the Federal government. Though I have to be skeptical these days about open source being "America's nest breakthrough."
Double Shot #1765
- KMS - Another new entry in the Rails CMS field, with PostgreSQL on the backend and AngularJS in front.
- Darling - Darling is to macOS binaries as Wine is to Windows binaries: a translation layer to run them on Linux.
- Using DTrace to measure mutex contention in Ruby - Debugging into low level thread code is sometimes useful, though personally I am not smart enough for threaded code in any case.
Double Shot #1764
- Total Nightmare: USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 - I'm sure glad the new Macs are so thin, because it was totally worth this cabling mess. Not. Luckily for me I'm probably done buying Macs.
- GraphicsMagick - Another alternative to ImageMagick that looks worth investigating.
- The Mac Platform Decline - Apple no longer has any real incentive to ship a developer platform. I've been saying this for years, but with the latest MBP announcements plenty of other people are noticing.
Double Shot #1763
- Continuous Integration and Deployment for Ruby projects with Bitbucket Pipelines - Remember, the world does not begin and end with GitHub.
- Screencast: Debugging With Byebug - This is the sort of thing that I never remember when I need it.
- JavaScript Stack from Scratch - This stuff has gotten insanely complicated.
Double Shot #1762
- HexaPDF - New PDF creation and manipulation library for Ruby.
- Sqreen - Security code that sits inside your application to block common attacks. Available for ruby/python/node.
- Parsing JSON is a Minefield - This is why we can't have nice things.
Double Shot #1761
- The SaaS CTO Security Checklist - There is way too much shit to worry about these days.
- Distrusting new WoSign and StartCom certificates - And speaking of security, looks like Mozilla has reached the point of being completely fed up with WoSign.
- Cyber Security Base - And for the security trifecta today, check out this site where F-Secure and the University of Helsinki are building an online course series.
Double Shot #1760
- The VeraCrypt Audit Results - All in all, it came through pretty well, and critical issues have been fixed.
- Hash#compact and Hash#compact! now part of Ruby 2.4 - One less reason to load ActiveSupport.
- Announcement: Requiring Certificate Transparency in 2017 - We have now reached the point where Google can add a work item to every single development team's schedule in the entire world at the same time.
Double Shot #1759
- Thredded - Forum and message boad engine for Rails 4.2+.
- Running Ruby apps in production - Introducing procodile, a Procfile-based production supervisor.
- Bedrock - Rock-solid distributed data - A networking and distributed transaction layer built on top of SQLite, so you can have distributed data while still accessing data in your own process.
Double Shot #1758
- i18n_yaml_sorter - This came in handy when I had a couple of big YAML files to neaten up. It's aimed at Rails internationalization but certainly not limited to that use case.
- 10 Modern Software Over-Engineering Mistakes - Amen to this. I very seldom run across production code that wouldn't benefit from a cleverectomy.
- Tracking SQL queries in Rails - using the sql_tracker gem to find hot spots while testing.
Double Shot #1757
- HawkPost - Steps towards secure encrypted uploads to a self-hosted server.
- Hotfix Your Ubuntu Kernels with the Canonical Livepatch Service! - The ops guys I know are excited about this.
- Gatling - Deployment services for Phoenix applications.
Double Shot #1756
- Errdo - Embed an error tracker directly in your Rails application.
- Marathono - GUI tool for managing long-running processes in MacOS 10.10+.
- Exploring CLI Best Practices - Some thoughts on writing good tools.
Double Shot #1755
- bitwarden - Free, open-source password manager.
- Resinos - Run docker containers on embedded devices. Useful if you want to save money on your company's server infrastructure by moving it all to Raspberry Pis.
- The Open Guide to Amazon Web Services - Links, tips, best practices and perhaps most importantly gotchas for working with AWS.
Double Shot #1754
- Sublimerge 3 - Commercial diff/merge tool that runs directly inside of Sublime Text 3.
- glean - 5x10 pixel programming font, for the times when you want to cram a lot of code on your screen at once.
- Netlify - Easy and performant website hosting for developers at a reasonable price.
Double Shot #1753
- Git the Princess! - How to save the princess in 8 programming languages. A comic from Toggl.
- TaskJuggler - Project management via structured text files that can be rendered into HTML. Works surprisingly well.
- SQL Style Guide - A starting point for your own corporate guidelines.
Double Shot #1752
- Botstack - Facebook chatbot development with Ruby on Rails.
- Why I hate iOS as a developer - This one sums up pretty much all of the reasons I walked away from iOS development (well, he doesn't mention that XCode is a crashy piece of shit) and am preparing to walk away from Apple entirely. Paying to be abused is just insane.
- Bundler's Multiple Source Security Vulnerability - I just spent half a day working around this in a batch of Rails projects. Easy to fix when you know about it.
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