Are you part of the twitter migration? Me too! I chose Mastodon as my social app of choice, and ruby.social as my community of choice. Learning Mastodon takes time, and I am right there with you. There is one thing that I can be assistance with, helping you figure out how to verify your website link in your profile. I…
aka How to Install vim-plug in Neovim Me and Vim have a love/hate relationship. I love using it... until I remember I remember zero keybindings annnnd then I have to search multiple articles every time I want to do anything in it. Especially leave it. But here I am again, trying to do development in Vim.. again... for reasons. Mostly…
I've chatted about Git before, but today I wanted to dive on some learning that I did recently on git log specifically. I wanted to streamline how I populate my pull request descriptions. Typically with my git commits, I like to keep to a atomic commit philosophy. My commits tell the why of my code change. The what of my…
I still feel new to the world of terminals, consoles, and yes, shells. Being a Java engineer for 12 years really didn't expose me much to these concepts in my day-to-day work, but now as a Ruby on Rails engineer, it is my preferred way of interacting with my tests, servers, get and any other command/app or API I might…
2FA (two factor authentication, multi-factor authentication) has been a subject I have been deeply interested in for over a year now. It started when I started at Flywheel, and had an opportunity to work on the team that need to implement a 2FA solution. While researching for the implementation, I hit several dead ends with searching for best practices on…
My month(ish) of learning So one of my goals has to been to dive deeper into Ruby and Rails, but as well as to try to learn a new thing, maybe technical, maybe not, every work day. And then to write that thing down. This was to help with accountability, you know actually doing it, as well as to help…
So sorry this took a while to post, but let's dive into the last chapter for The Pragmatic Programmer! As always, thank you to Ari Caplan of Dev Empathy Bookclub for letting me use questions from the book club. If you are looking for an awesome group of people to discuss books that can help you become a better person…
Notes on Chapter 7, Before the Project All about what to do before starting a project. Seems like it is pre-agile methodologies. Since the agile manifesto came out 2001 seems to fit that timeline.Dig for requirements, don't gather. They are on not the surface but deep under assumptions. A requirement is a statement of something that needs to be accomplishedUse…
So my engineering bookclub is continuing on with Chapter 6 in The Pragmatic Programmer. We have had some stops and starts along the way. For chapters 4 and 5 we ended up combing the weeks because none of us were really feeling discussing chapter 4 (Pragmatic Paranoia). We did have to move Chapter 6 from last week, because it was…
For our beginning notes to review and discuss for our book club choice, The Pragmatic Programmer, I used notes from Joe Hallenbeck. This was great for the first 4 chapters, but then I had to put in some work and start taking my own notes. These were just to help jog the memory for discussion points, and in case someone…