The beauty of xargs
Every time we deploy our Rails application, our deployment tool creates a new folder based on the date and time, puts the right files in it, and when everything is ready to go, updates a symlink to...
View ArticleNew gem: Authority
I recently released a new Ruby gem for authorization in Rails apps. It's called Authority. You can find the code and extensive documentation on Github; the gem is hosted on RubyGems. I also wrote a...
View ArticleProgramming music: Afriki Djigui Theatri
I've been meaning to write a post about music I like to listen to while programming. My main criteria is that it doesn't have words I can understand, because that triggers the language part of my...
View ArticleHubbub
I like to imagine that somewhere in Silicon Valley, there is a sandwich shop which caters to nerds. They send out special deals via RSS feed. Naturally, they call this the PubsubHubbub Sub Club.Based...
View ArticleNotification from long-running tasks
Yesterday I thought of a technique which has become a real time-saver for me. (I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of this; I remember reading something similar in Time Management for System...
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