Double Shot #1692
Postings are going to be spotty for the next month or so. I've got a lot of summer camp time coming up.
- fake_stripe - Test Stripe code without hitting Stripe's servers.
- jQuery 3.0 Release Candidate...Released! - Good grief, I don't even understand all the stuff in 2.x yet. I suspect the deprecation removals will keep me from upgrading for a while though.
- Spectre.css - "A lightweight, responsive and modern CSS framework"
Double Shot #1691
- My time with Rails is up - Another experienced developer gets fed up with the Rails way. There are some good points in here.
- Hanami - Ruby framework promising simplicity, speed, and security.
- Pastejacking - This is why we can't have nice things.
Double Shot #1690
- CSS coding techniques - A primer from Mozilla. Good reading if you've never taken the time to get an overview but have just dived into SASS or Bootstrap.
- What happens when... - An oldie but a goodie that looks into the cascade of things going on when you visit Google. How many layers of your computer's hardware and software do you understand?
- The Nit Programming Language - Because you can't know too many languages. No parent who has ever had to deal with a head louse infestation will ever use this one, though.
Double Shot #1689
- Shrine 2.0 Released - The latest take on Ruby file uploading libraries, complete with migration guides from CarrierWave Paperclip, or Refile.
- A Content Security Policy (CSP) strategy - How to protect your Rails application from XSS vulnerabilities.
- git-reflow - A structured workflow layer on top of git.
Double Shot #1688
- EC2Instances.info - Way easier comparisons of the myriad of EC2 types than you can do on Amazon's own site.
- Domain Events over Active Record Callbacks - An argument that callbacks are just the wrong tree to bark up.
- Xray-rails - See in your browser what views and partials painted which piece of the screen.
Double Shot #1687
- Cronally - Cron jobs for AWS as a service.
- BrainRuby - Write any ruby program using only $#<>{}/+`"
- Procs and Lambdas: Closures in Ruby - A walk through some of the things you don't learn in your first week as a Rubyist.
Double Shot #1686
- Firefox v46+ Security Hardening + Some Tweaks - Things you can do to lock down your Firefox.
- Electron 1.0 is here - The cross-platform base for the Atom editor reaches a milestone.
- Running scheduled tasks on AWS Elastic Beanstalk - Best approach I've seen yet to making sure jobs run on a single host as your app scales up and down. Wasn't too hard to reimplement in Ruby.
Double Shot #1685
- How to Center in CSS - Automatically generate working code for a variety of situations.
- Google Compute Engine Container-VM Image and Build a Docker Image, push it to AWS EC2 Container Registry, then deploy it to AWS Elastic Beanstalk - There's plenty more fun to be had with containers.
- Save Firefox - EFF weighs in against Encrypted Media Extensions and other W3C nonsense.
Double Shot #1684
- Active Record Doctor - Automate checks for some common issues in setting up ActiveRecord.
- Rails 5 — ActiveRecord Suppress — a step too far? - An argument against one of the new features in this year's Rails.
- Sublime Text as an Arduino IDE - I've got some Arduino work coming up this summer, need to look into this.
Double Shot #1683
- Real-Time Rails: Implementing WebSockets in Rails 5 with Action Cable - A primer from Heroku.
- Knuckles, The Next Level of API Caching - A library designed to be fast and lightweight with only the essential features.
- Books every Ruby/Rails dev should read - Idiosyncratic, like all such lists, but should at least get you started thinking.
Double Shot #1682
- Firefox Test Pilot - Get involved with testing out new Firefox UI experiments without having to run a bleeding-edge version of the browser.
- Store your private data inside a git repository - Safely, using public-key encryption.
- gitsome - "A supercharged Git/Shell Autocompleted with GitHub Integration."
Double Shot #1681
- Node.js on a satellite means anyone can be a space programmer - Because 100,000 javascript files is TOTALLY the stack I'd want to use for an expensive mission-critical application.
- Ruby on Google App Engine goes beta - So now we can deploy Rails and such to Google's cloud easily. Make Ruby Great Again and Today I accept that Rails is yesterday's software - Two ruminations on the future.
Double Shot #1680
- Rails::Auth - Authentication/Authorization library built as Rack middleware.
- Active Sample - Pull random sample records from Active Record classes.
- Rails Api Base - Full-featured template project to start building APIs in Rails 5.
Double Shot #1679
- OverAPI.com - "Collecting All Cheat Sheets".
- After a Year of Using NodeJS in Production - A tale of frustration and suckage.
- Seed Dump - Build your Rails seeds.rb file from the data already in your database.
Double Shot #1678
- Gem Dependency Issues with Rails 5 Beta - The joy of dependency management. A good reminder that it's easier to upgrade if you wait.
- Container-Ready Rails 5 - On the other hand, Rails 5 is the easiest release ever to get running on Heroku.
- ImageTragick - ImageMagick has a fairly serious vulnerability. Depending on which wrapper you use for images, you may or may not be at risk. Anyhow, doesn't hurt to update.
Double Shot #1677
- 10 SQL Tricks That You Didn't Think Were Possible - If you go back far enough you already think everything can be done in SQL, but still a good list of techniques.
- Rails 5.0.0.beta4 - I hear a train coming.
- NetHttp2 - HTTP 2.0 client for Ruby applications.
Double Shot #1676
- Using Bumbler to reduce runtime dependencies - Get a handle on which gems in your Rails project take the longest to load.
- Ruby 2.3.1 Released - With a batch of bugfixes.
- Jenkins 2.0 is here! - Just in time for me to set up a new CI server.
Double Shot #1675
- Homebrew's Anonymous Aggregate User Behavior Analytics - I wish it were opt-in instead of opt-out, but Homebrew appears to actually be doing a pretty good job of implementing event tracking without compromising user privacy.
- Bootstrap 4 Cheat Sheet - Good gravy there's a lot of stuff in Bootstrap now.
- memdump - Analysis tool for Ruby 2.1+ memory dumps.
Double Shot #1674
- Grub - Automated comments for your Gemfile to make it easier to remember what the heck you installed.
- The Road to Sinatra 2.0 - Mostly stabilization & revitalization of the organization.
Double Shot #1673
- Changes to test contollers in Rails 5 - A quick rundown of this year's opinionation.
- Action Cable Client - Websocket gem supporting the Rails Action Cable protocol.
- Curing Our Slack Addiction - Because really, you're not getting paid to fart around in chat rooms all day.
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