2021 In Review
From resurrecting this blog to contributing to Ruby itself, 2021 was a year of challenges and surprises.
Recent Posts
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January 29, 2022 – year-in-review -
January 20, 2022 – TIL , javascript TIL: JavaScript's void Operator
Today I discovered the void operator in JavaScript. It evaluates an expression but always returns undefined.
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January 06, 2022 – TIL , rails TIL: Object#presence_in
A small Rails addition that helps creating allow/block lists.
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December 29, 2021 – quick-tip , refactoring A Mindset for Better Code
The key for better code is making it easy to delete.
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November 25, 2021 – productivity , quick-tip How To Get Pull Requests Merged Faster
No one likes huge Pull Requests. Reviewers have a hard time reading them, bugs sneak in, they took ages to get merged, conflicts pop everywhere… It’s a nightmare. There’s a better way to handle this.
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October 28, 2021 – jekyll , quick-tip , ruby , ssg Easy View Components In Jekyll
Jekyll is a famous static site generator. It has over 43k stars on GitHub, but in our current JAMstack world, it’s not the shiniest star anymore.
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September 30, 2021 – linters , rails , rubocop , ruby Custom Linters For Custom Needs
Parsers, grepping, ASCII art, and how that helps you automating boring stuff.
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August 31, 2021 – quick-tip , refactoring How Spaces Can Improve Your Code
Writing code is similar to writing an essay: it consists of many small parts that interact. One big giant blob of words is hard — and tedious — to read. To address this, we use paragraphs. The same technique can benefit our code. Here’s how.
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July 22, 2021 – refactoring Kitchen Sink
Imagine you drink a glass of water and go to the kitchen sink to wash it. When you get there, there’s a HUGE pile of dirty dishes in the sink. To wash your glass, you would have to clean all the mess before. You look around… no one’s watching. You carefully put the glass in the sink’s corner and sneak out. You walk away thinking “How things got this way?”. The ironic answer comes to your mind: one glass a day.
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June 04, 2021 – learn-in-public , rust My First Month (or so) With Rust
I’m learning Rust and this is the first post about my experience with it. I’m a Ruby programmer, so you may wanna check out my post about the decision of learning Rust for more background.
