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Linux

• Linux Tip - Find All Files Older than 10 Days and Delete Them -- 09 May 2019 -- / linux

OSX

• Accessing Your Mac via SSH / Rsync and Making Mac Networking Work for SMB -- 20 Oct 2019 -- / OSX / ssh / rsync

• OSX Spotlight Does Math -- 08 Oct 2019 -- / osx / spotlight

actionmailer

• ActionMailer, Vlad and Rake Remote Task Issues -- 05 Sep 2014 -- / actionmailer / ruby / vlad

aggregator

• BlogBridge is Beautiful -- 31 Oct 2005 -- / aggregator

alcohol

• How To Detox Someone From Alcohol -- 14 Jan 2020 -- / alcohol / life

alexa

• Welcome to An Alexa House -- 04 Jun 2019 -- / alexa / amazon

amazon

• Camel Camel Camel - A Way to Get Amazon Stuff Cheaper -- 18 May 2019 -- / amazon

• Product Review Amazon Echo is Excellent -- 26 Dec 2016 -- / alexa / echo / music / echo_dot / review

amazon_echo

• Product Review Amazon Echo is Excellent -- 26 Dec 2016 -- / alexa / echo / music / echo_dot / review

ansible

• Getting Past Ansible Password Required Issues -- 03 Jun 2020 -- / ansible

• Installing Ansible on Ubuntu 18 on AWS -- 12 May 2020 -- / ansible / linux / ubuntu

• Updating to the Latest Ansible on Ubuntu -- 15 Nov 2019 -- / ansible / ubuntu

• Bad Ansible Error Message - No handler was ready to authenticate -- 08 Jul 2019 -- / ansible

• Using Ansible ec2.py Directly -- 18 May 2019 -- / ansible / devops / python / aws

• Hacks for When Ansible Galaxy Isn't Working -- 01 Aug 2017 -- / ansible / ansible-galaxy

• Using Ansible on Ubuntu 16.04 When which python Fails -- 20 Jun 2017 -- / ansible / devops

• Getting Started with Ansible when You Know Literally Nothing -- 22 Mar 2017 -- / ansible

• Ansible Unable to Find Boto Errors -- 04 Jan 2017 -- / ansible / boto / aws

• Ansible Error Fixing ControlPath Too Long Error -- 29 Dec 2016 -- / ansible / osx

• Adhoc Ansible Example -- 14 Dec 2016 -- / ansible / adhoc

• Review - Indianpolis Ansible Meetup -- 19 Oct 2016 -- / ansible / tdd / humor / serverspec / meetup

• Ansible Tutorial 02 - Configuring a Sidekiq Upstart Job on Ubuntu 14.04 -- 13 Oct 2016 -- / ansible / sidekiq / ruby / rvm

• Ansible Quickie Fixing a Poorly Designed Galaxy Role -- 09 Oct 2016 -- / ansible / galaxy / sidekiq / ansible-galaxy

• Ansible Quickie - Checking the Memory Status on All Machines -- 08 Oct 2016 -- / ansible / aws

• Ansible Quickie - Turning Off Services On A Group of Machines -- 05 Oct 2016 -- / ansible / devops / services

• Ansible Basics Presentation at Indy Elixir Meetup -- 04 Oct 2016 -- / ansible / elixir

• Ansible Tutorial 02 - Understanding How Failures Are Handled -- 03 Oct 2016 -- / ansible

• Using Ansible to Drive Down Hosting Costs -- 30 Sep 2016 -- / ansible / hosting

• Ansible Tutorial 01 - Examples of Ansible Ad Hoc Commands -- 29 Sep 2016 -- / ansible / ad_hoc

anti_patterns

• Patterns and Anti-Patterns -- 26 Jul 2019 -- / software_development / anti_patterns

• Development Anti Pattern - Two Objects with Almost the Same Structure -- 26 Jul 2019 -- / software_development / anti_patterns

apache

• Apache2 and Mod Rewrite and Automatic Redirect to https -- 03 Feb 2017 -- / apache / mod_rewrite

aws

• The Two AWS RDS Postgres Errors I Always Make -- 08 Apr 2020 -- / aws / rds

• PDF Text Extraction Is Hard Even for AWS Textract -- 05 Mar 2020 -- / aws / python

• Getting Started with Ruby and an AWS Managed Kafka Server -- 12 Feb 2020 -- / aws / ruby / kafka

• Using Eternal Terminal with OSX and AWS Including Ansible Support -- 26 Nov 2019 -- / aws / eternal_terminal / osx

• Three Ways to Count the Objects in an AWS S3 Bucket -- 24 Oct 2019 -- / aws / s3

• Understanding AWS S3 Limitations and Performance -- 30 Sep 2019 -- / aws / s3

• Getting AWS Costs Under Control -- 04 May 2019 -- / aws

• Creating an HTTPS Site on AWS with a .IO Domain -- 30 Sep 2017 -- / aws / io / https

• Using Errbit To Host Your own Error Tracker on AWS for Rails Apps -- 11 Aug 2017 -- / rails / aws / errbit

• Expanding an AWS Instance Volume -- 09 Aug 2017 -- / aws / docker / aufs

• Monitoring Free Disc Space On AWS Instances with Monit, Ansible and SparkPost -- 02 Aug 2017 -- / aws / ansible / monit / SparkPost

• Adding Mosh Support to Your AWS Servers -- 02 Jul 2017 -- / aws / mosh / devops / osx / ansible

• To Compress or Not to Compress - An S3 Question -- 09 Jun 2017 -- / aws / hosting / s3 / pricing

• Developer Employee Transitions When You're an AWS Shop -- 14 Mar 2017 -- / aws / management

• Ansible Error with AWS, AMI Creation and Encrypted -- 14 Mar 2017 -- / aws

• Using Ansible as a Development Tool with Rails and AWS for Large Scale Data Processing Automation -- 06 Mar 2017 -- / ansible / aws / rails / ruby / shell / bash / sidekiq / devops / meta_programming

• Redirecting HTTP to HTTPS with AWS and ELB -- 03 Feb 2017 -- / aws / apache / elb / http / https

• S3 Ruby Api Programming Tip -- 26 Jan 2017 -- / aws / ruby / s3

• More Ansible on AWS for Sidekiq -- 03 Dec 2016 -- / aws / ansible / sidekiq

• Killing Sidekiq on AWS with Ansible -- 02 Dec 2016 -- / aws / ansible / sidekiq / rails

• Clearing Rails Log Files on AWS with Ansible -- 02 Dec 2016 -- / aws / ansible / logs / rails

• AWS, Ansible and Boto or Virtualization IS the Answer -- 01 Dec 2016 -- / aws / ansible / boto / virtualization / vagrant

• AWS Tech Note - Problems with Ubuntu 16.04 and Ansible -- 29 Nov 2016 -- / aws / ansible / ubuntu / python

• A Poor Man's Load Balancer -- 28 Nov 2016 -- / aws / proxy / load_balancer / ruby

• Fear and Loathing in AWS or Adventures in Partition Resizing -- 26 Nov 2016 -- / aws / ebs / volume / linux / partition / mysql / innodb / tuning

• AWS Tutorial 22 - Making Your Boxes Pingable -- 06 Nov 2016 -- / aws / security_group / ping / security

• AWS Tutorial 21 - Protecting Your Rails App In an Unfriendly Environment Using Rack Attack -- 05 Nov 2016 -- / aws / rails / security

• AWS Tutorial 20 - Adding Machine and Process Monitoring To Your AWS Instances with Inspeqtor -- 20 Oct 2016 -- / aws / inspeqtor / ubuntu

• Thinking About a Ruby Driven AWS Lambda Approach for Big Data Computing -- 16 Oct 2016 -- / aws / ruby / lambda / software_engineering

• AWS Tutorial 19 - Back to the Basics, Let's Talk AMIs and EC2 basics -- 16 Oct 2016 -- / aws / ami / linux / ec2

• AWS Tutorial 18 - When You've Lost Your Web Server, How to Find an AWS Resource -- 16 Oct 2016 -- / aws

• AWS Tutorial 17 - Wrapping Up Our SSH Issues By Using Monit For Process Monitoring -- 16 Oct 2016 -- / aws / ssh / monit / ansible

• AWS Tutorial 16 - SSH Failures Take 4 - Time to Write Some Monitoring Code -- 13 Oct 2016 -- / aws / ssh / ruby / monitoring

• AWS Tutorial 15 - SSH Take 3 - Using Ansible To Diagnose my SSH Troubles -- 11 Oct 2016 -- / aws / ansible / ssh / ruby

• AWS Tutorial 14 - Diagnosing SSH Failures Take 2 -- 06 Oct 2016 -- / aws / ssh / linux / ansible / tmux / tmuxinator / debugging / software_engineering / ruby

• AWS Tutorial 13 - Adding Idempotency to Our CloudWatch Monitoring Playbook -- 02 Oct 2016 -- / aws / ansible / cloudwatch

• AWS Tutorial 12 - Using Ansible to Quickly Fix Your Server's TCP Connections -- 02 Oct 2016 -- / aws / ansible / redis

• AWS Tutorial 11 - An Ansible Role for Installing AWS Cloud Watch Monitoring On Ubuntu -- 01 Oct 2016 -- / ansible / aws / cloudwatch

• AWS Tutorial 10 - Diagnosing SSH Failures or When Ping Works But SSH Fails -- 01 Oct 2016 -- / aws / ssh

• AWS Tutorial 09 - Deploying Rails Apps With Capistrano Take 1 -- 23 Sep 2016 -- / ruby / rails / aws / capistrano / deploy

• AWS Tutorial 08 - Using SSH's Config File with Your AWS Boxes -- 20 Sep 2016 -- / aws / ssh

• AWS Tutorial 07 - Understanding Elastic IPs -- 11 Sep 2016 -- / aws / elastic_ip / networking

• AWS Tutorial 06 - Getting Your Instance ID and Why It Matters -- 07 Sep 2016 -- / aws / instance-id

• AWS - An Example of Development Speed with AWS -- 07 Sep 2016 -- / aws

• AWS - I was Wrong; Dead Wrong -- 06 Sep 2016 -- / aws

• AWS Tutorial 5 - Aurora RDS Issues -- 29 Aug 2016 -- / aws / rds / mysql / aurora

• AWS Tutorial 4 - RDS Data Loading into Aurora Run In Circles Scream and Shout - The Oh Shite Moment -- 28 Aug 2016 -- / aws / rds / mysql / aurora

• AWS Tutorial 3 - Notes on S3 Sync -- 28 Aug 2016 -- / aws / mariadb / mysql / s3

• AWS Tutorial 2 - Importing a Large MySQL Instance from S3 -- 24 Aug 2016 -- / aws / mariadb / mysql / s3

• AWS Tutorial 1 - Exporting a Large MySQL Instance to S3 -- 23 Aug 2016 -- / aws / mariadb / mysql / s3

barfleet

• Summer Games - An Overview for Noobs by a Noob -- 30 May 2019 -- / barfleet

bash

• Getting Past Bash Argument list too long -- 25 Jun 2020 -- / bash / linux

• OSX argument list too long; Sigh -- 02 Oct 2019 -- / osx / bash

• A Bash Function for the 2 AM Blind Deploy -- 06 Aug 2017 -- / devops / deploy / bash

• Improving Your Bash Scripting with shellcheck -- 17 Jul 2017 -- / bash / shellcheck

• Executing Word Counts with Bash -- 12 Apr 2017 -- / bash / linux / shell

betty

• Learning to Extend Betty -- 21 Aug 2016 -- / betty / ruby

bias

• ADL Bias and Diversity Training -- 20 Feb 2020 -- / bias / diversity

blogging

• 17 Years of Blogging -- 05 Sep 2019 -- / blogging / linux

• A Mobile First Blogging Strategy -- 18 May 2019 -- / blogging / writing

• My Apologies for Not Responding to the Comments Yet -- 14 Nov 2005 -- / blogging / misc

book_review

• The Anthony Bourdain of Finance - A Book Review of Straight to Hell -- 04 Sep 2016 -- / book_review / finance

bootstrap

• Dear Bootstrap Why Aren't My Tables Full Width -- 07 Dec 2019 -- / bootstrap / css

• Adding a Show / Hide Feature to Your Bootstrap 4 Divs -- 10 Nov 2019 -- / bootstrap / html / css

• A Bootstrap 4 Two Column Example that Just Works -- 26 Jul 2019 -- / boostrap / css

brew

• When libreadline Goes Whack -- 11 May 2019 -- / brew / osx / libreadline

browser

• Maxthon - Huh ? -- 15 Nov 2005 -- / browser / maxthon

camera

• Digital Camera Recommendation Wanted -- 28 Nov 2005 -- / camera / misc

caprover

• Using CapRover on AWS -- 10 Nov 2019 -- / caprover / aws

change

• A Week of Whole 30 Meals From My Recipes -- 08 Dec 2019 -- / change / weight_loss / whole30

• Scott's Approach to Weight Loss -- 06 Dec 2019 -- / change / weight_loss / whole30

chef

• Curse Your Curly Quotes or Crazy Chef Error Messages -- 14 Aug 2014 -- / ruby / curly quotes

chrome

• Sharing iPhone Photos via ChromeCast -- 06 Jun 2020 -- / iphone / chrome_cast

• A Chrome Extension for Fixing Google Image Search -- 16 Sep 2019 -- / chrome / chrome_extension

• Great Chrome Extensions - Tab Switcher and The Great Suspender -- 03 Sep 2019 -- / chrome / chrome_extension

• Tabaholics of the Chrome World Unite for the Great Suspender! -- 03 Jun 2019 -- / chrome / browser

• How to Set a New URL in Chrome on New Tab -- 11 Nov 2016 -- / chrome / extension

chrome_cast

• Sharing iPhone Photos via ChromeCast -- 06 Jun 2020 -- / iphone / chrome_cast

cicd

• Setting Up CI / CD with Jenkins, Blue Ocean, Github for a Rust Program -- 05 Jun 2020 -- / cicd / ci / cd / jenkins / blue_ocean / github / rust

cocktails

• Production of Cocktails at Scale for a Fan Run Event -- 04 Jun 2019 -- / cocktails / event

cons

• Great Con Signage -- 18 Feb 2020 -- / cons / gender / consent

• Consulting - The Answer Is Yes -- 24 Oct 2016 -- / consulting / business / freelance

consulting

• Consulting - The Answer Is Yes -- 24 Oct 2016 -- / consulting / business / freelance

cooking

• How to Win the Thanksgiving Meal War -- 27 Nov 2019 -- / cooking / thanksgiving / holiday

• Gluten Free Cookies for a Wedding -- 19 Oct 2016 -- / wedding / cookies / cooking / recipes

• How to Become a Better Cook -- 26 Sep 2016 -- / cooking

• Gluten Free Fettuccine Alfredo That is Actually Good -- 08 Sep 2016 -- / cooking / recipes / gluten_free / celiac

covid

• Visting Long Distance Family in the Age of COVID-19 -- 18 May 2020 -- / covid

• Covid and Your Personal Bus Factor -- 22 Apr 2020 -- / covid / startup

• Covid-19 - Good News, Bad News or the Weekend? -- 07 Apr 2020 -- / covidnearme.org / covid

• So You're Going to Have Visitors to Your Home in the Age of Covid - Here's What to Do -- 19 Mar 2020 -- / covidnearme.org / covid

• How to Help a Quarantined Person -- 18 Mar 2020 -- / covidnearme.org / covid

• Assembly Line Workers and COVID-19 - What Does An Employer Do About Touching Your Face? -- 16 Mar 2020 -- / covidnearme.org / covid

• The Five Second Rule No Longer Applies in the Age of Covid -- 13 Mar 2020 -- / covid

• What is covidnearme.org ? -- 13 Mar 2020 -- / covidnearme.org / covid

• COVID-19 / Coronavirus Prep -- 10 Mar 2020 -- / covid

covidnearme.org

• Covid-19 - Good News, Bad News or the Weekend? -- 07 Apr 2020 -- / covidnearme.org / covid

• So You're Going to Have Visitors to Your Home in the Age of Covid - Here's What to Do -- 19 Mar 2020 -- / covidnearme.org / covid

• How to Help a Quarantined Person -- 18 Mar 2020 -- / covidnearme.org / covid

• Assembly Line Workers and COVID-19 - What Does An Employer Do About Touching Your Face? -- 16 Mar 2020 -- / covidnearme.org / covid

• What is covidnearme.org ? -- 13 Mar 2020 -- / covidnearme.org / covid

css

• Tools for Tailwind CSS -- 11 Jan 2020 -- / css / tailwind

• Never Underestimate Your Own Stupidity - A Jekyll CSS Issue -- 09 Oct 2019 -- / css / jekyll

• When Your Font Awesome Etsy Icon Doesn't Display -- 16 Mar 2017 -- / css / fontawesome

• Reversing CSS Minification -- 15 Feb 2017 -- / css / hyde

curl

• Testing A Health Check Endpoint with Curl -- 01 Sep 2019 -- / curl / serverless

current_events

• Cui Bono or the Only Latin You Need - The Theranos / Shultz Example -- 17 Nov 2016 -- / theranos / latin

dad_why_do_you

• Dad Why Is Your Face Bloody? An Essay on Shaving Economics -- 16 Sep 2016 -- / dad_why_do_you / m / shaving / razor / economics / fatherhood / personal

• Dad - Why Do You Read the Newspaper? -- 15 Sep 2016 -- / dad_why_do_you / personal / parenting / m

data_science

• Data Science - Data Sets versus a Data Repository -- 12 Sep 2019 -- / data_science / python

• Interesting Data Science Utilities -- 03 Sep 2019 -- / data_science / machine_learning

debugging

• Debugging Christmas Lights -- 01 Dec 2016 -- / debugging / christmas / software_engineering

• Multi Threaded Debugging Hell -- 21 Aug 2016 -- / ruby / rails / threading / hell

design

• Color Palette Design Tools -- 11 Apr 2017 -- / design / color

devops

• Making DevSecOps Easier - Ticket Squirrely Little Installation Steps NOW -- 04 Oct 2019 -- / devops / devsecops / python

• No CI and No CD - Deploying Docker Swarm with Bash and Ansible -- 20 Jun 2017 -- / ci / cd / docker / swarm / docker_swarm / bash / ansible

• Working with Windows 10 Pro HyperVisor When You Are a Mac Guy -- 31 Jan 2017 -- / devops / sysadmin / windows

disney

• A Father's Guide to Surviving Disney World -- 19 Sep 2016 -- / disney / parenting

docker

• Fixing the Docker Permission Denied While Trying to Connect to the Docker Daemon Socket Error -- 10 Jun 2020 -- / docker / ubuntu / linux / ansible

• Using a Cron Job to Run Rake Tasks Inside Your Docker Container -- 29 Nov 2019 -- / docker / rails / rake

• Understanding Docker Multi Stage Builds - Installing Python and Ruby in the Same Dockerfile -- 22 Nov 2019 -- / docker / python / ruby

• dockerbash - Making docker exec -it Suck Less -- 21 Nov 2019 -- / docker / bash

• Forensic Computing 3 - When Docker Breaks SSH -- 27 Aug 2019 -- / docker / linux / networking / ssh

• Using Chrome Driver with Docker, Rails and Selenium on AWS -- 30 Sep 2017 -- / docker / rails / ruby / selenium / aws

• Docker Won't Install Libxml -- 21 Sep 2017 -- / docker / rails

• Reclaiming Docker Disc Space on OSX -- 06 Sep 2017 -- / docker / osx / mac

• Running out of Disc Space with Docker -- 30 Aug 2017 -- / docker / aufs / disc_space / bloat

• 10 Steps to Debugging Containerized Applications -- 15 Aug 2017 -- / docker / debugging / rails / monolith / aws

• Beware Docker Swarm -- 28 Jun 2017 -- / docker / swarm / devops

• Docker Tutorial Understanding Container Memory Usage -- 25 Jun 2017 -- / docker

• Testing Out New Programming Languages Using Docker -- 26 Apr 2017 -- / docker / programming / elixir

• Adapting your Rails Tmux Development Flow to a Docker Development Flow -- 18 Oct 2016 -- / rails / docker / tmux

• In the World of Containers HoneyBadger Will Reign Supreme - Bye Bye AirBrake -- 26 Aug 2016 -- / aws / containers / docker / logs / error messages / honey badger

dropbox

• Dropbox for the Software Developer -- 13 Mar 2017 -- / dropbox

ebook

• Tools for Publishing an Ebook -- 05 Jun 2019 -- / ebook

• In Defense of Facebook's Fake News Policy -- 22 Nov 2016 -- / facebook / trump / zuckerberg / spam

electron

• Electron Development is Like Mos Eisley -- 11 Jan 2017 -- / javascript / electron / hyde

elixir

• Elixir Example Using Ecto for An Existing MySQL Database -- 26 Sep 2016 -- / elixir / ecto / mysql

• Elixir Tutorial 04 Actually Writing Some Code For Our Page Fetcher -- 22 Sep 2016 -- / elixir

• Notes from Elixir Remote Meetup -- 21 Sep 2016 -- / elixir / meetup / remote / josh_adams

• Elixir Tutorial 03 - Deploying to Ubuntu -- 16 Sep 2016 -- / elixir

• Rails2Elixir - Generating a New Elixir Project -- 15 Sep 2016 -- / rails2elixir / elixir

• Elixir Tutorial 02 - Adding Redis Support to our Page Fetcher -- 15 Sep 2016 -- / elixir

• Elixir Sips - Fantastic Customer Service -- 13 Sep 2016 -- / elixir / elixir_sips / josh_adams

• Howto - Upgrading Elixir to 1.3 on OSX -- 09 Sep 2016 -- / elixir

• Rails2Elixir - rake spec -- 06 Sep 2016 -- / rails2elixir / elixir

• Rails2Elixir - rake db:migrate -- 06 Sep 2016 -- / rails2elixir / elixir

• Rails2Elixir - rails new -- 06 Sep 2016 -- / rails2elixir / elixir

• Rails2Elixir - rails g migration something_to_change -- 06 Sep 2016 -- / rails2elixir / elixir

• Rails2Elixir - rails c -- 06 Sep 2016 -- / rails2elixir / elixir

• Rails2Elixir - bundle install -- 06 Sep 2016 -- / rails2elixir / elixir

• Practical Things Learned at ElixirConf -- 06 Sep 2016 -- / elixir / elixirconf

• Notes from My ElixirConf Trip Report at Indianapolis Meetup -- 06 Sep 2016 -- / meetup / elixir

• What Keeps You From Using Using Elixir -- 02 Sep 2016 -- / elixir / phoenix

• Slides from Elixircon Days 0, 1 and 2 -- 02 Sep 2016 -- / elixir / phoenix

• ElixirCon Review and Closing Thoughts -- 02 Sep 2016 -- / elixir / phoenix

• Tools for Elixir Development -- 01 Sep 2016 -- / elixir / elixirconf / tools

• Random Thoughts on Elixir -- 01 Sep 2016 -- / elixir / elixirconf / phoenix

• Learning Phoenix from Sonny -- 31 Aug 2016 -- / elixir / elixirconf / phoenix

• Rails2Elixir - Object.methods or Getting a Module to List Its Methods -- 14 Mar 2016 -- / rails2elixir / elixir

• Building a Blog with Phoenix -- 05 Mar 2016 -- / elixir / phoenix

• MySql Mistake - Its All About Maria -- 05 Mar 2016 -- / elixir / mariadb / ecto

• Getting Started : Installation -- 05 Mar 2016 -- / elixir

• Building a Todo App -- 05 Mar 2016 -- / elixir / phoenix

email

• Nylas Mail Review -- 18 Jan 2017 -- / email / nylas / slack

facebook

• In Defense of Facebook's Fake News Policy -- 22 Nov 2016 -- / facebook / trump / zuckerberg / spam

fail

• Utter and Complete Heroku Fail -- 08 Aug 2017 -- / heroku / fail / rails

fatherhood

• Perhaps My Proudest Moment as a Father -- 14 Nov 2016 -- / fatherhood / parenting / max / personal

feedster

• Thanks Dave! -- 27 Nov 2005 -- / feedster

• Getting down to the wire -- 27 Nov 2005 -- / feedster

• Well Said Jeremy, Well Said -- 26 Nov 2005 -- / feedster

• The Finals Steps -- 22 Nov 2005 -- / feedster

• San Francisco Hotel Recommendation Needed -- 21 Nov 2005 -- / feedster / misc

• Crunch Mode or What Can Go Wrong Will Go Wrong -- 20 Nov 2005 -- / feedster / startup / software_engineering

• Understanding Yahoo's RSS Ad Server -- 17 Nov 2005 -- / feedster

• A Feedster Widget for OSX Dashboard -- 14 Nov 2005 -- / feedster / osx

• I Made Memeorandum -- 14 Nov 2005 -- / feedster

• Why Feedster Used Linux -- 01 Nov 2005 -- / feedster / linux

firefox

• send.firefox.com rocks -- 28 Mar 2020 -- / firefox / large_files

• FireFox 1.5 is Out -- 01 Dec 2005 -- / firefox

• Firefox Tip of the Day -- 02 Nov 2005 -- / firefox

food

• Gluten Free Baking 101 -- 16 Mar 2020 -- / food / gluten_free

freelance

• Freelance Billing Issues 1099 C2C W2 -- 17 Jun 2017 -- / freelance / billing / w2 / 1099 / c2c

• Choosing Account Software For Your Freelance Life -- 29 Jan 2017 -- / startup / freelance / accounting / quicken / hurdlr / freshbooks

• How to Be a Professional Freelancer -- 01 Sep 2016 -- / freelance / business

gaim

• A Gaim Plugin I Want -- 11 Nov 2005 -- / gaim / aim / im

gaming

• Tutorial How To Upgrade Your PS4 to 2 Terabytes of Storage -- 03 Jan 2017 -- / tutorial / ps4 / gaming

gender

• What Does Snark to our Alexas Teach Our Kids -- 28 Oct 2019 -- / gender / alexa / manners

git

• Your Global .gitconfig -- 03 Mar 2020 -- / git

• Welcome to gist.github.com/username -- 17 Jan 2020 -- / git / gist / markdown / internet

• Two New Tools for Git -- 16 Jan 2020 -- / git

• When You Forget Your Branch Name Use Git Reflog -- 25 Nov 2019 -- / git / cmn

• Using Github Hub to Create an Issue and Streamline Your Branch Workflow -- 24 Nov 2019 -- / git / software_engineering

• Configuring a Git Repo for CI / CD Style Pull Requests -- 22 Oct 2019 -- / git / software_engineering

• Git Large File Support Silently Skips Over Checkouts When Git LFS Isn't Installed -- 17 Oct 2019 -- / git / python / pytorch / streamlit

• Understanding a Small Organization's Git Development Model -- 27 Jun 2019 -- / software_engineering / git / github

• Enabling Github Security Alerts on Your Private Repositories -- 17 Nov 2017 -- / github / git / security / rails

• Things Winston Taught Me - Better Git Shortcuts -- 03 Mar 2017 -- / git / terminal

• My Worst Git Commit Message Ever -- 23 Dec 2016 -- / git / humor

• Git Tip - Resetting Master to A Previous Commit -- 06 Nov 2016 -- / git / version_control

• Development Tooling - Github Issues, ZenHub, GitLab and More -- 23 Aug 2016 -- / git / issues / zenhub / gitlab

• The Importance of Git Hooks -- 29 Aug 2014 -- / ruby / git / hooks

github

• Enabling Github Security Alerts on Your Private Repositories -- 17 Nov 2017 -- / github / git / security / rails

gluten_free

• Gluten Warning - Mushrooms May Not Actually Be Gluten Free -- 21 Mar 2017 -- / warning / gluten_free / food

gmail

• Color Coding Your Gmail with Labels -- 01 Sep 2019 -- / gmail / email / inbox_buddy

google_calendar

• Google Calendar Tip - Custom Repeat -- 09 Oct 2019 -- / google_calendar

hardware

• Belt and Suspenders and Possible Overcomplications in Home Control -- 01 Feb 2020 -- / hardware / home_control

hatchbox

• Having Hatchbox Redirect All http Sites it Manages to https -- 28 Mar 2020 -- / hatchbox / https

health

• Managing An Attack of Hives -- 04 May 2019 -- / health / hives

heroku

• Heroku Is Amazing or Fixing INSERT command denied to user (MySQL) -- 25 Oct 2019 -- / rails / heroku / mysql

• Importing Your Local MySQL Database Into Heroku -- 16 Oct 2019 -- / mysql / heroku

hiring

• So You Want to Hire a Freelancer to Be Full Time -- 14 Dec 2016 -- / hr / hiring / software_engineering / freelance / gig

home_ownership

• Adventures in Below Ground Plumbing - The Lift Pump -- 28 Apr 2020 -- / home_ownership / plumbing

home_security

• Adding Wireless IP Security Web Cams to Your House or a Wretched Hive of Scum and Villany -- 30 Aug 2014 -- / home_security / wifi / web cam / security

house

• Protecting Your Home from Water Damage -- 07 Jan 2017 -- / house / hacking / home_ownership / water_damage

how_to_be_a_developer

• How To Be A Developer 001 - Commit -- 02 Jul 2017 -- / how_to_be_a_developer / software_development

html

• _new versus _blank in HTML 5 -- 19 May 2020 -- / html

https

• HTTPS And Your Custom Domain on Github Pages -- 07 May 2019 -- / https / blogging / GitHub / git

humor

• The 12 Bugs of Christmas - A Software Developers' Version -- 11 Dec 2019 -- / humor / christmas

• Nerd Humor - When You Blog in Bright Sunlight in a Convertible -- 31 Jul 2019 -- / humor / blogging

• Best Nerd Humor Ever Bad Horse -- 18 Nov 2016 -- / humor

• Top 10 things Likely to be Overheard if a Klingon was Running Your Engineering Department -- 31 Aug 2016 -- / humor / star_trek

• Klingon Open Source -- 31 Aug 2016 -- / humor / klingon / open_source

• Dated Nerd Humor - Klingon Open Source -- 31 Aug 2016 -- / humor / klingon / open_source

• Anatomy of a Business Trip Gone Horribly Wrong -- 21 Aug 2014 -- / humor / road warrior

• Marcia Brady the Startup Window -- 01 Dec 2005 -- / humor

• If a feature fell in the forest -- 01 Dec 2005 -- / humor

• im quote of the day -- 29 Nov 2005 -- / humor

• My Boy's First Blog Post -- 24 Nov 2005 -- / humor

• The Coming Yahoo Microsoft Merger -- 21 Nov 2005 -- / humor

• A Joke -- 21 Nov 2005 -- / humor

• The Hacker Has Left the Offices -- 21 Nov 2005 -- / humor

• IM Quote of the Day -- 21 Nov 2005 --

• Live from Tornado Alley (Literally) -- 16 Nov 2005 -- / humor

• Dr. Seuss Startrek -- 14 Nov 2005 -- / humor

hyperterm

• An Introduction to HyperTerm -- 25 Aug 2016 -- / betty / hyperterm / node

ibooks

• Tutorial - Sideloading Content in iBooks on an iPhone or iPad -- 12 Sep 2016 -- / iphone / ipad / ibooks / sync / ios

inventing

• Six Tips on Inventing -- 05 May 2020 -- / inventing

ipad

• How Do You Know the Charge Status of Your Apple Pencil -- 16 Dec 2019 -- / ipad / apple_pencil

• iPad for Productivity Take Two -- 14 Sep 2016 -- / ios / ipad

• Is an iPad a Serious Productivity Tool? -- 13 Sep 2016 -- / ios / ipad

iphone

• Analyzing iPhone X, iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus -- 13 Sep 2017 -- / iphone / apple

• Dear Apple Please Make iTunes Sync Suck Less -- 07 Sep 2016 -- / iphone / osx / apple / itunes

itunes

• iTunes on Windows Easier than on Mac ? -- 25 Nov 2005 -- / itunes

jekyll

• Setting Up a Github Pages Jekyll Blog -- 07 Sep 2019 -- / jekyll / blogging

• Self Hosting a Jekyll Site -- 06 Oct 2017 -- / jekyll / blogging / startup

• Welcome to Jekyll! -- 07 Aug 2016 -- / jekyll

• Importing a WordPress Site into Jekyll -- 07 Aug 2016 -- / jekyll / wordpress

jenkins

• Installing Jenkins on Ubuntu 18 on AWS -- 12 May 2020 -- / jenkins / linux / ubuntu

jobhound

• Questions to Ask During a Job Interview -- 10 Sep 2019 -- / hiring / jobhound / interview

• A Universal Resume Tool -- 10 Sep 2019 -- / jobhound / hiring / job / resume

• 12 Practical Tips for Job Seekers -- 07 Sep 2019 -- / jobhound / hiring / job

• Getting Your First Tech Job -- 29 Aug 2019 -- / jobhound / hiring / job

• New Job Hound Feature - Create Cover Letters More Easily -- 03 May 2018 -- / jobhound

• Anatomy of an Accidental Product Launch with Metrics - Day 1 -- 27 Apr 2018 -- / jobhound / startup / metrics

• Ten Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role -- 24 Apr 2018 -- / jobhound / jobs

kubernetes

• Interesting Kubernetes Stuff -- 16 Sep 2016 -- / kubernetes / aws / docker

lambda

• A Conceptual Architecture for a Filesytem to SQS Loader -- 12 Jun 2020 -- / lambda / aws / sqs

learning

• We Live in a Science Fiction Universe After All -- 23 Jan 2020 -- / machine_learning / nlp

• What is Machine Learning? -- 14 Jan 2020 -- / machine_learning

• Adding Explainability to Machine Learning Routines via Runtime Execution of Labeling Functions -- 10 Jan 2020 -- / machine_learning / python / snorkel

• A Warning About Git LFS and Large Machine Learning Models and Automated Deployments -- 14 Nov 2019 -- / machine_learning / git / git_lfs

• Things Ganesh Taught Me -- 02 Mar 2017 -- / terminal / podcasting / screen_recording / keep

linux

• Using Xargs to Get Past Argument List Too Long -- 12 Dec 2019 -- / linux

• Working with ZSTD Files -- 09 Sep 2019 -- / linux / zstd

• Generating a Good Password from the Command Line -- 02 Sep 2019 -- / linux / password / security

• Increasing Linux Open File Limits -- 02 Mar 2017 -- / linux / sys_admin / sidekiq

• OSX to Linux in 10 Minutes 01 - Installing Albert on Ubuntu Mac -- 17 Feb 2017 -- / osx_to_linux / osx / postmac / linux / ubuntu

• Linux Tip of the Day - curl -- 08 Feb 2017 -- / linux_tip_of_the_day / linux / curl

• Linux Tip Of The Day - recode -- 07 Feb 2017 -- / linux_tip_of_the_day / linux / jq

• Linux Tip of the Day - jq -- 06 Feb 2017 -- / linux_tip_of_the_day / linux / jq

• Linux Tip of the Day - git-standup -- 04 Feb 2017 -- / linux_tip_of_the_day / linux / git

• Linux Tip Of The Day - Using rsync for Backup -- 03 Feb 2017 -- / linux / sysadmin / devops / backup / linux_tip_of_the_day

• Linux Tip of the Day rvm --default -- 02 Feb 2017 -- / ruby / rails / linux / rvm / linux_tip_of_the_day

• Linux Tip Of The Day - lsblk -- 01 Feb 2017 -- / linux_tip_of_the_day / linux / sys_admin / aws / linux_tip_of_the_day

• Linux Tip of the Day inotifywait -- 31 Jan 2017 -- / linux_tip_of_the_day / linux / git / sys_admin

• Linux Tip of the Day - git recall -- 30 Jan 2017 -- / linux_tip_of_the_day / linux / git / linux_tip_of_the_day

• Linux Tip of the Day - Use bmon for Bandwidth Monitoring -- 29 Jan 2017 -- / linux_tip_of_the_day / linux / sysadmin / aws

login

• The Bullcrappery That is Offering Only Magic Link Authentication -- 12 Mar 2020 -- / authentication / login

mac

• We Live in a Science Fiction Universe After All -- 23 Jan 2020 -- / machine_learning / nlp

• What is Machine Learning? -- 14 Jan 2020 -- / machine_learning

• Adding Explainability to Machine Learning Routines via Runtime Execution of Labeling Functions -- 10 Jan 2020 -- / machine_learning / python / snorkel

• A Warning About Git LFS and Large Machine Learning Models and Automated Deployments -- 14 Nov 2019 -- / machine_learning / git / git_lfs

• A Stupid Mac Performance Optimization for 2019 -- 05 Sep 2019 -- / mac / osx

• Configuring Your Mac with Ansible Take 2 -- 31 Jul 2017 -- / mac / ansible / hackintosh

• Recent PostMac Round Up -- 03 Jan 2017 -- / apple / osx / postmac / windows / mac

• PostMac Roundup -- 21 Dec 2016 -- / postmac / mac / osx

• Recent PostMac Notes -- 14 Dec 2016 -- / postmac / osx

• Apple MacBook Pro Alternatives -- 10 Dec 2016 -- / postmac / apple / mac

• Postmac - Glad I Got the Older MacBook Pro -- 26 Nov 2016 -- / postmac / osx / mac

• Buying a Mac as a Developer in Fall 2016 -- 22 Nov 2016 -- / mac / osx / rage

• PostMac Linux Take 2 - Ubuntu Mate -- 13 Nov 2016 -- / postmac / linux / ubuntu / mate / elementary

• PostMac 001 -- Adding pbcopy to ElementaryOS or Another Unix -- 05 Nov 2016 -- / postmac / linux / mac

• Life in a Postmac World -- 05 Nov 2016 -- / postmac / osx / mac

• The Coming Post Mac World -- 30 Oct 2016 -- / osx / post_mac / mac

• You Do All This On A MacBook Air??? -- 05 Oct 2016 -- / macbook / osx / aws

macbook

• You Do All This On A MacBook Air??? -- 05 Oct 2016 -- / macbook / osx / aws

machine_learning

• We Live in a Science Fiction Universe After All -- 23 Jan 2020 -- / machine_learning / nlp

• What is Machine Learning? -- 14 Jan 2020 -- / machine_learning

• Adding Explainability to Machine Learning Routines via Runtime Execution of Labeling Functions -- 10 Jan 2020 -- / machine_learning / python / snorkel

• A Warning About Git LFS and Large Machine Learning Models and Automated Deployments -- 14 Nov 2019 -- / machine_learning / git / git_lfs

management

• Running Effective Agile Standup Meetings -- 06 Nov 2019 -- / management / startup / offsite / team / meetings

• Running a Team Retrospective Meeting -- 01 Nov 2019 -- / management / startup / offsite / team / meetings

• Running a P1, P2, P3 Team Prioritization Meeting -- 31 Oct 2019 -- / management / startup / offsite / team / meetings

• What to Do When an Engineer Leaves Your Organization -- 05 Sep 2019 -- / management / hr / startup

• Hiring and Firing - What If It Doesn't Work Out? -- 31 Aug 2016 -- / firing / hiring / hr

mariadb

• Accessing MariaDB without sudo on Ubuntu -- 06 Dec 2016 -- / mariadb / ubuntu / sudo

markdown

• Markdown Editors -- 18 Jan 2020 -- / markdown / internet

marketing

• A Social Marketing Strategy that Mom Would Approve -- 24 Mar 2020 -- / marketing / covidnearme

• Marketing 101 - Ride the Wave If You Can -- 17 Aug 2017 -- / marketing101 / marketing

• Foolishness in Open Source Marketing or On the State of Pony Take 2 -- 21 Aug 2016 -- / open source / pony / marketing

medium

• Fundamental Usability Problems with Medium -- 14 Aug 2017 -- / medium / blogging

• On the Changes at Medium -- 04 Jan 2017 -- / medium / blogging / startup

misc

• An Engineer's Guide To Having Your Credit Card Stolen -- 02 Mar 2017 -- / misc / credit_card / cloudflare / cloudbleed

• Blog This All Over the Place -- 01 Dec 2005 -- / misc

• Advice on Consumer Electronics / Sharp Aquous Requested -- 25 Nov 2005 -- / misc

• The Relative's PC -- 24 Nov 2005 -- / misc

• Tagyu -- Very Cool -- 21 Nov 2005 -- / misc / tagyu

• Lunch is Just a Time Offset -- 14 Nov 2005 -- / misc

• Thanks Mike! -- 30 Oct 2005 -- / misc

mobile

• Testing Sites on Mobile - Responsinator Rocks -- 10 Sep 2019 -- / webdev / mobile

• Native Apps Are Not Doomed -- 29 Nov 2016 -- / apps / iphone / google_play / android / xvt / qt / software_development / mobile

mtu

• The Power of Why -- 26 Aug 2019 -- / software_engineering / chapter_02

music

• If I Was a Traveling Musician -- 23 Jan 2017 -- / music / random / echo / alexa / 10x / david_rovics

mvp

• Case Study What Can You Do In 30 Days Using Ruby and Rails 5 -- 07 Aug 2016 -- / ruby / mvp / startup

mysql

• OSX MySQL Disc Space Usage and Location -- 21 Apr 2017 -- / osx / mysql / mariadb / saas / ruby / hyde

• What Just Happened To Your Database In the Past 10 Minutes -- 14 Dec 2016 -- / mysql / rails / sql

• MySQL and Time Machine Woes Part 2 -- 03 Dec 2016 -- / mysql / time_machine / backup / mac / osx

• When MySQL Loads Go Wrong - What Do You Do? -- 02 Dec 2016 -- / mysql

• MySQL - How Do You Know Your MySQL Data Load Worked? -- 05 Sep 2016 -- / mysql

• When OSX 10.9 + and MySQL 5.6 Don't Work -- 06 Nov 2014 -- / mysql / osx

• Archiving HTML Pages to the Database with Compression Using Rails -- 12 Sep 2014 -- / ruby / mysql / serialize / compression

• Optimizing Your Filesystem for MySQL -- 28 Aug 2014 -- / mysql / filesystem / performance

• Innodb Performance Tuning Tips and Research -- 28 Aug 2014 -- / mysql / innodb / performance

• MySQL Tip - How do you shut down mysql when you don't use upstart or init.d -- 27 Aug 2014 -- / mysql / sysadmin

netlabeler

• Machine Learning Datasets for NLP -- 09 Mar 2020 -- / netlabeler / machine_learning

nginx

• Configuring NGINX to Serve a Directory Listing -- 15 Jun 2020 -- / nginx

node

• Building My First Node App -- 05 Jun 2019 -- / node / javascrpt

nushell

• Nushell Rocks - Go Yehuda Go -- 27 Aug 2019 -- / nushell / rust

offsite

• Essential Technology for a Team Offsite -- 30 Oct 2019 -- / offsite / management / startup

okr

• Understanding OKRs -- 22 Dec 2019 -- / okr / startup

optimization

• A Damn Fine Day from an Engineer's Perspective -- 27 Aug 2014 -- / ruby / optimization / performance

osx

• Making OSX Fonts Display Better -- 17 Jun 2020 -- / osx

• Fixing zsh Compaudit Problem on OSX Catalina -- 04 Jun 2020 -- / osx / zsh / catalina

• How to Find the Latest Version of a File on OSX Using mdfind -- 26 Apr 2020 -- / osx

• So My Mac Keeps Crashing -- 30 Jan 2020 -- / osx

• Turn Off Automatic Prompting for OSX Updates Because Catalina is Bad So Far -- 22 Oct 2019 -- / osx

• You Don't Need Catalina to Give Your Laptop a Second Monitor -- 17 Oct 2019 -- / osx / ipad

• Time Machine Stuck On Preparing Backup -- 14 Oct 2019 -- / osx / time_machine

• So You Just Got Your First Mac and You Need Software -- 16 Sep 2019 -- / osx / mac

• Bullshite rsync Subtleties -- 24 Jul 2019 -- / osx / rsync / mac

• Backing Mac to Mac via scp / rsync -- 22 Jul 2019 -- / osx / backup

• Getting Around Spotlight's Madness -- 16 Jul 2019 -- / osx / spotlight / mdfind

• Forensic Computing 2 - Kernel Panics and Kexts -- 08 Oct 2017 -- / osx / kernel_panics / kexts

• Why I Haven't Switched Away from OSX -- 19 Jul 2017 -- / osx / linux

• OSX Tip Using mdfind to search your hard disc for files by name -- 20 Jun 2017 -- / find / mdfind / command_line / osx / locate

• The Tools I Use -- 13 Jun 2017 -- / osx / tools / development

• Getting Around OSX Bash Fork Issues -- 20 Mar 2017 -- / osx / bash / rails / fork / mac

• OSX to Linux in 10 Minutes 01 - Installing Albert on Ubuntu Mac -- 17 Feb 2017 -- / osx_to_linux / osx / postmac / linux / ubuntu

• Getting Rid of Smart Quotes on OSX -- 16 Feb 2017 -- / osx / mac

• Bash on OSX versus Bash on Ubuntu and Upgrading Your Bash -- 15 Feb 2017 -- / osx / linux / bash

• Getting Past SSH Errors in OSX Sierra -- 29 Dec 2016 -- / osx / ssh / sierra / sshagent

• Fixing Sudo on OSX Sierra -- 29 Dec 2016 -- / osx / sierra / sudo

• Bringing an Old MacBook Pro Back to Life -- 06 Dec 2016 -- / osx / mac / rvm / ruby / bundler / gem / brew / cask / mysql

• Time Machine Backup Woes -- 30 Nov 2016 -- / osx / time_machine / mysql / mac

• visudo On OSX Sierra -- 22 Nov 2016 -- / osx / visudo / mac

• Ansible for Configuring Your Mac - SO MUCH BETTER -- 20 Nov 2016 -- / osx / mac / ansible / postmac

• OSX Tip - How to Reposition Your Dock When Google Hangout Messes With It -- 12 Oct 2016 -- / osx / spaces / dock / virtual_desktop

• How to Turn off Flash on Safari -- 11 Sep 2016 -- / osx / security / stability / flash

• Using Mission Control and Loving It -- 30 Aug 2016 -- / osx / mission_control / total_spaces / virtual_desktops

• Show Hidden Files On OSX -- 17 Aug 2016 -- / osx

• Surviving a Detour through MacHell or What to Do When Your Mac Won't Boot -- 11 Nov 2014 -- / osx

• Changing a Timestamp on OSX When Your Camera has 1979 as its Date -- 01 Sep 2014 -- / osx / sysadmin

• OSX Tip - Using Toshiba External Hard Drives -- 14 Aug 2014 -- / ntfs / osx

osx_to_linux

• OSX to Linux in 10 Minutes 01 - Installing Albert on Ubuntu Mac -- 17 Feb 2017 -- / osx_to_linux / osx / postmac / linux / ubuntu

pair_programming

• If You Pair Program Buy Tuple Now -- 22 Nov 2019 -- / pair_programming / software_engineering

parenting

• Parenting Actually Does Work -- 28 Nov 2016 -- / parenting / fatherhood

• Childhood Memories -- 14 Sep 2016 -- / m / disney / safari / personal

personal

• Remembering Jerry Pournelle -- 11 Sep 2017 -- / personal / scifi

philosophy

• Don't Beat Yourself Up - That's the World's Job -- 23 Dec 2019 -- / philosophy

phone

• So You Get Ideas In the Car And Don't Want to Die -- 08 May 2019 -- / phone / writing

• Analyzing iPhone X, iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus -- 13 Sep 2017 -- / iphone / apple

• Dear Apple Please Make iTunes Sync Suck Less -- 07 Sep 2016 -- / iphone / osx / apple / itunes

php

• Python Link of the Day: EZT -- 04 Dec 2005 -- / php / python

• An Easy PHP Install -- 14 Nov 2005 -- / php

• Useful Ajax Resources -- 07 Nov 2005 -- / ajax / php

podcasting

• Juice Rocks -- 19 Nov 2005 -- / podcasting

• Advice for People Writing Podcast Engines / Tools -- 10 Nov 2005 -- / podcasting / opml

pop_culture

• 2016 Pop Culture Review -- 08 Jan 2017 -- / pop_culture

post_mac

• The Coming Post Mac World -- 30 Oct 2016 -- / osx / post_mac / mac

postgres

• Using Explain in Postgres -- 17 Apr 2020 -- / postgres / sql

• PG ConnectionBad (could not connect to server No such file or directory) -- 08 Apr 2020 -- / postgres

• Getting Used to Postgres from MySQL - I Choose You, Postico -- 20 Jan 2020 -- / postgres / mysql / postico

• It Is 2 AM and Postgres Won't Start - What Do You Do? -- 14 Sep 2019 -- / postgres / brew / jumpstart

postmac

• Recent PostMac Round Up -- 03 Jan 2017 -- / apple / osx / postmac / windows / mac

• PostMac Roundup -- 21 Dec 2016 -- / postmac / mac / osx

• Recent PostMac Notes -- 14 Dec 2016 -- / postmac / osx

• Apple MacBook Pro Alternatives -- 10 Dec 2016 -- / postmac / apple / mac

• Postmac - Glad I Got the Older MacBook Pro -- 26 Nov 2016 -- / postmac / osx / mac

• PostMac Linux Take 2 - Ubuntu Mate -- 13 Nov 2016 -- / postmac / linux / ubuntu / mate / elementary

• PostMac 001 -- Adding pbcopy to ElementaryOS or Another Unix -- 05 Nov 2016 -- / postmac / linux / mac

• Life in a Postmac World -- 05 Nov 2016 -- / postmac / osx / mac

python

• Using Spacy for Part of Speech Tagging -- 24 Jun 2020 -- / python / nlp / spacy

• Sorting the Keys of a Python JSON Object -- 11 Jun 2020 -- / python

• Python Kafka Basics -- 16 Apr 2020 -- / kafka

• Upgrading Python and Pip and VirtualEnv on Ubuntu -- 03 Apr 2020 -- / python

• Casting in Python and Redis -- 08 Mar 2020 -- / python / redis

• Reloading the REPL in Python -- 07 Mar 2020 -- / python / rails

• Emulating Ruby's Benchmark.real_time in Python Using a Context Manager -- 06 Mar 2020 -- / python / ruby

• Python Tips - Playing with Pandas -- 06 Jan 2020 -- / python / pandas

• When Jupyter Notebooks Won't Import Libraries -- 03 Jan 2020 -- / python / jupyter / data_science

• Ruby to Python Translation Guide -- 11 Dec 2019 -- / ruby / python

• Making a Streamlit Machine Learning App into a SystemD Service for Deployment via Ansible -- 13 Nov 2019 -- / python / streamlit / systemd / linux

• Reading Files to Strings using Python and then Loading them to JSON -- 04 Nov 2019 -- / python

• Calling Python Methods - Subtleties with and without Parens -- 28 Oct 2019 -- / python

• Using Python to Get an Object's Methods / Attributes Dynamically -- 24 Oct 2019 -- / python / ruby

• Working with Python and Firefly and Tensor Flow Machine Learning -- 21 Oct 2019 -- / python / firefly / machine_learning / tensor_flow

• An Observation on TensorFlow and PyTorch Startup Time -- 18 Oct 2019 -- / pytorch / python / tensorflow

• A Step by Step Guide to Running Streamlit, PyTorch and Bert on a Cheap AWS Instance -- 17 Oct 2019 -- / python / streamlit / pytorch / aws

• More Thoughts on Python vs Ruby -- 14 Oct 2019 -- / python / ruby

• Python vs Ruby / Subtracting Arrays of Strings -- 13 Oct 2019 -- / python / ruby

• Get it Right Spacy, Get it Right -- 04 Oct 2019 -- / python / nlp / spacy

• iPython and Virtual Environments -- 27 Sep 2019 -- / python / ipython

• The Python Equivalent of byebug is pdb.set_trace() -- 24 Sep 2019 -- / python / debugging

• An Idiot Rubyist's Guide to Messing About with Pandas Data Frames -- 23 Sep 2019 -- / python / data_science / pandas / data_frame

• Writing Command Line Tools in Python - Enter Fire -- 13 Sep 2019 -- / python

• Building a Python requirements.txt File -- 10 Sep 2019 -- / python / requirements / pip

• Working Up to Bert - Installing TensorFlow for Python -- 09 Sep 2019 -- / python / tensorflow / pip / virtualenv

• A Python and Data Science Tooling Vocabulary for a Rubyist -- 01 Sep 2019 -- / python / data_science / machine_learning

• Python Link of the Day -- 03 Dec 2005 -- / python / software_engineering

• Why Python? -- 01 Dec 2005 -- / python

• First Python Project: Gaim + GMail Integration -- 01 Dec 2005 -- / python

• Becoming P^3 -- 01 Dec 2005 -- / python

rails

• Rails Asset Pipeline Failures and Capistrano -- 14 Apr 2020 -- / rails / deploy / capistrano

• Adding Chartkick to a Rails 6 App - Things I Always Forget -- 02 Apr 2020 -- / rails

• Deploying a Rails App Using HatchBox onto Google Cloud Platform -- 22 Mar 2020 -- / rails / hatchbox

• A Drop Dead Stupid Rails Testing Trick -- 19 Mar 2020 -- / rails / testing

• Loading Zip Codes with SmarterCSV Gem -- 18 Mar 2020 -- / rails / csv / covidnearme.org

• When to Use a Helper Method in Rails -- 04 Mar 2020 -- / rails / ruby / netlabeler

• Rails Form Technique - Using collection_select with Open Structs -- 01 Mar 2020 -- / rails / open_struct

• Rails Console and Test Mode -- 19 Feb 2020 -- / rails / test

• When You Can't Run Rails Console Restart Spring -- 02 Feb 2020 -- / rails

• The Power of Using Production In Development -- 01 Feb 2020 -- / rails

• Where is my Rails 6 Master Key -- 29 Jan 2020 -- / rails

• Turning Off Ruby Deprecation Warnings When Running Tests -- 28 Jan 2020 -- / rails

• Rails Test Basics -- 27 Jan 2020 -- / rails / test

• Rails -- NoMethodError undefined method unpack1 for nil NilClass -- 26 Jan 2020 -- / rails

• Getting Started with Pundit -- 25 Jan 2020 -- / pundit / rails / security

• When rails credentials:edit Won't Save Your Credentials -- 24 Jan 2020 -- / rails / credentials

• Understanding the Power of rails g scaffold -- 22 Jan 2020 -- / rails

• Looking Back - Jumpstart Pro - The Best Development Decision I Made in 2019 -- 21 Jan 2020 -- / rails / jumpstart

• Creating an All New Rails App -- 09 Jan 2020 -- / rails

• Pundit and Group By Operations - DOH -- 05 Jan 2020 -- / rails / pundit

• Jumpstart Rails Tutorial 01 - Bringing an Existing Codebase In -- 02 Jan 2020 -- / rails / jumpstart

• Updating to the Latest Version of JumpStart Pro -- 29 Dec 2019 -- / rails / jumpstart

• How Do You Know What ActiveRecord Table Has a user_id Attribute? -- 28 Dec 2019 -- / rails / active_record / metaprogramming / jumpstart

• Installing mysql2 Gem on OSX when Headers Can't Be Found -- 21 Nov 2019 -- / rails / ruby / mysql

• Adding Decimal Types to Rails Migrations -- 18 Nov 2019 -- / rails / mysql

• Adding an Includes Clause to ActiveRecord and Watching the Joy Flow -- 18 Nov 2019 -- / rails / activerecord / performance

• Getting Local Development Data for Rails from Your Production Site using Heroku -- 16 Nov 2019 -- / rails / heroku

• Implementing Safe ActiveRecord Like Queries for Rails -- 11 Nov 2019 -- / rails / activerecord

• Changing Button Text on Simple Form Submit Buttons -- 11 Nov 2019 -- / rails / simple_form

• Stupid Simple ActiveRecord Optimizations or Why Rails Console is Essential for Development -- 05 Nov 2019 -- / rails / active_record / optimization

• Using Git Commits to Learn to Program Ruby on Rails -- 03 Nov 2019 -- / rails / git / learning

• Thank You Thoughbot for Your Timezone Article -- 23 Oct 2019 -- / rails / timezone

• So You Don't Want Controller Level Helpers, Controller Level Javascripts, Controller Level Stylesheets -- 23 Oct 2019 -- / rails

• Getting Used to Heroku and Rails -- 22 Oct 2019 -- / rails / heroku

• HoneyBadger - Even More Awesome than Ever -- 21 Oct 2019 -- / rails

• Rails 6 and Markdown Rendering - An Abject Personal Failure -- 19 Oct 2019 -- / rails

• I'm Open Sourcing An Active Record Extension for find_or_create_by_attributes -- 11 Oct 2019 -- / rails / ruby

• It Sucks When You Are the Answer -- 26 Sep 2019 -- / rails / font-awesome / google

• The Real Reason We Have Rake Tasks - Developers Make Mistakes -- 20 Sep 2019 -- / rails / rake

• Tiny Rails Tip - Don't Let byebug into Production using Git Hooks and precommit -- 17 Sep 2019 -- / rails / ruby / git

• Rails Tip - When in Doubt Bundle Exec -- 11 Sep 2019 -- / rails

• Becoming a Rails Developer - Bundle Install Completes; What's Next -- 08 Sep 2019 -- / rails

• Rails on Windows Resources -- 05 Sep 2019 -- / rails / windows / ruby

• Jumpstart and GoRails Has Outstanding Tech Support - Go Chris Oliver Go - Recommended -- 17 Aug 2019 -- / rails / jumpstart

• Installing Rails 2.6 on OSX and a Creating New Application -- 17 Aug 2019 -- / rails

• Rails Scopes are Elegant -- 05 Aug 2019 -- / rails / database

• Rails Migration Tips and Tricks -- 31 Jul 2019 -- / rails / migration / db / database

• Git Rebasing Old Migrations Easily When SourceTree Fails -- 24 Jul 2019 -- / rails / ruby / migrations

• Getting Around the Makara ActiveRecord Proxy -- 23 Jul 2019 -- / ruby / rails

• Adding Quick and Dirty JSON Serialization to Database Objects -- 18 Jul 2019 -- / rails / ruby

• Never Type Bundle Exec Again -- 17 Jul 2019 -- / rails / ruby

• RSpec - Uninitialized Constant Errors on Model Tests -- 10 Jul 2019 -- / rails / rspec

• The Schema WTF Moment Take 2 - An Excursion into SourceTree -- 10 May 2019 -- / rails / db / schema

• Rails, Migrations, Multiple Developers and the Schema WTF Moment -- 09 May 2019 -- / rails / schema / migration

• Using Elastic Search and Rails for a Compound Query with Text Strings and User ID -- 19 Apr 2018 -- / rails / ruby / elastic_search

• Converting from FactoryGirl to FactoryBot -- 19 Apr 2018 -- / rails / ruby / testing

• Rails, AuthLogic, CSRF, 422 and session_store.rb -- 25 Sep 2017 -- / rails / authlogic / csrf

• Notes on Upgrading to Rails 5.1 -- 01 Sep 2017 -- / rails / ruby / puma / apartment

• When Gems Won't Install - The mkmf.log Problem -- 28 Aug 2017 -- / rails / ruby / gems

• Rails, Apartment, Tenancy and Sidekiq -- 21 Aug 2017 -- / rails / apartment / tenancy / multi_tenant / sidekiq

• When Font Awesome Won't Render in Production on Rails 5.x -- 12 Aug 2017 -- / rails / font_awesome / asset_pipeline

• Referencing Images in Rails 5 CSS Stylesheets -- 09 Aug 2017 -- / rails / CSS

• Rails and Address Already In Use - Bind Error -- 29 Jul 2017 -- / rails / sysadmin / bind

• JavaScript and CSS Magic for the Rails Front End Challenged using Zoom.js for Image Zooming -- 08 Jul 2017 -- / rails / javascript / css / images

• Adding Cron to a Dockerized Rails Application Using Clockwork -- 11 May 2017 -- / rails / docker / cron / clockwork

• Building a Rails API App Which Accepts Data from JavaScript -- 10 May 2017 -- / rails / javascript / api / cors / fingerprint

• Rails Idiocy - When Params In Your Controller Are Nil -- 12 Apr 2017 -- / rails

• Rails Tip - When Puma Doesn't Run on the Specified Port -- 05 Apr 2017 -- / rails / puma

• Disabling Spring in Rails -- 20 Mar 2017 -- / rails / monolith / hyde / spring

• Questioning the Nature of Gem'ified JavaScript -- 19 Mar 2017 -- / rails / javascript / d3

• When Sidekiq Makes You Nuts Check Your Types -- 08 Mar 2017 -- / rails / sidekiq

• Setting Up Rails with Rspec From the Start -- 26 Feb 2017 -- / rails / rspec / hyde

• Understanding Low Level Index Issues in MySQL and Rails -- 24 Feb 2017 -- / mysql / index / performance / rails

• Rails Humor The Sound of Crickets when rails g Is Used -- 20 Feb 2017 -- / rails / humor

• Visual Studio Code for a Rails Guy -- 17 Feb 2017 -- / rails / hyde

• Troubleshooting Rails and Sidekiq -- 17 Feb 2017 -- / rails / sidekiq

• Rails in 10 Minutes - How to Add a Fav Icon to Your Rails App -- 14 Feb 2017 -- / rails / hyde / design / user_interface / ui / rails_in_10_minutes

• Rails Tutorial - Making Font Awesome Work with Rails 5 -- 24 Jan 2017 -- / tutorial / font_awesome / hyde / rails / css

• Why I Didn't Look at Phusion's Union Station But You Should -- 18 Jan 2017 -- / rails / ruby / startup / marketing / oobe / hyde / phusion

• Rails Tutorial - Making Awesome Print Work Everywhere -- 17 Jan 2017 -- / rails / ruby / awesome_print

• When rails g won't generate a Model -- 12 Jan 2017 -- / rails / model / spring / listen / hyde

• Capistrano Failure - Asset Manifest Not Created -- 04 Jan 2017 -- / rails / capistrano / asset_pipeline

• Processing Large Datasets On AWS Using Ruby, Rails and SideKiq -- 03 Jan 2017 -- / ruby / rails / sidekiq / aws

• Invalid route name, already in use 'page' -- 29 Dec 2016 -- / rails / pages / authlogic / bootstrap

• How to Build Rails views with Markdown -- 28 Dec 2016 -- / rails / markdown / kramdown / hyde

• Rails Refactoring Tip - When You Remove a Database Column and You Are Still Trying to Use It -- 19 Dec 2016 -- / rails / refactor / activerecord / database

• Code Rot is Very, Very Real -- 06 Dec 2016 -- / ruby / rails / software_engineering

• A Tricky Bit of Rails ActiveRecord Optimization -- 17 Nov 2016 --