The Mask
What if someone, the actor, had become so equipped at playing all parts that everyone wanted to see: the leader, the capitalist, the communist, the philosopher,...
Aphorisms 2020
The following is an excerpt from a December newsletter. 1. Starting is easy finishing is hard. 2. Vulnerability is the key to connecting with others. 3....
My Tower of Babel
Has it been an illusion all along? Let me go into it once more. Brick by brick I built this tower, Diligently, carefully in my mind....
Go Version Management
How to install and use multiple versions of Go programming language...
Building & Deploying Crypto Trading Bots (November Update)
Approximately 1.5 years ago I started work on a hobby project to create arbitrage trading bots that trade against simulated cryptocurrency markets. Naïvely as I...
Simple Ruby Strategy Pattern
Let's look at very simple implementation of the strategy pattern in Ruby....
Ideas and Their Cohabitation Within Us
You may be familiar with the concept of memes (not the internet image macros) from previous letters I've written citing Dr. Rene Girard. From my view: memes are a study of "social genetics" and the tracing of horizontal transfer of ideas between groups....
Faraday HTTP API Client in Rails
Memoizing how to create a standard reusable Ruby Faraday HTTP Client in Rails for myself....
Dockerize Rails Application
If you enjoy this article you may be interested in the book I am working on called Building and Deploying Crypto Trading Bots. You can find...
Creating Autoloading In Sinatra
Have you ever wonder why you never needed to require any files or modules in the Rails work we've done so far? This is one of the nicesties of using Ruby on Rails framework: the auto-loading feature. Let's build it in Sinatra...
Kindness.txt
(Tip) Keep a small text file or note somewhere called something like kindness.txt. When someone gives you a meaningful compliment or recognition for an achievement...
Paradise Lost
Milton invokes the Muse at the start of his journey to inspire him to justify the ways of God to men. Paradise Lost, therefore, has something...
CircleCI, PostgreSQL, ActiveRecord, Sinatra
CircleCI, PostgreSQL, ActiveRecord, Sinatra setup...
Rack in Rails
What does it mean for Rails to be be a "rack based web framework?". Let's find out...
How Does Rails Assign Variables to Rendered Views?
Over the course of this post we will investigate one source of that "Rails magic" that perplexes developers: how Rails assigns Controller instance variables to view templates....
Hugo and Netlify CSS not loading
Common gotcha in deploying Hugo static sites to Netlify...
Rails API Not Found Routes
A side alley adventure into Rails API error handling....
Bootstrap in Rails 6
Since the release of Rails 6, there have been some changes made to default tools for asset compilation. Let's uncover how to adding Twitter Bootstrap has changed....
Adding CORS to Rails
Adding Cross Origin Resource Sharing Requests (CORs) to Ruby on Rails...
Artisanal Software
What is it about the artisanal good that we value and is this applicable to digital software products?...