ruby on rails • 2 min read Rack in Rails What does it mean for Rails to be be a "rack based web framework?". Let's find out
ruby on rails • 5 min read Rails Rendering, Views and Controller Variable Binding 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.
go • 1 min read Hugo + Netlify CSS not loading Common gotcha in deploying Hugo static sites to Netlify
ruby on rails • 3 min read Rails API Not Found Routes A side alley adventure into Rails API error handling.
ruby on rails • 2 min read 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.
ruby on rails • 1 min read Adding CORS to Rails Adding Cross Origin Resource Sharing Requests (CORs) to Ruby on Rails
programming • 2 min read Artisanal Software What is it about the artisanal good that we value and is this applicable to digital software products?
world • 6 min read Covid-19 As I walk down the empty streets of San Francisco I can't help but feel somewhat relieved. The rush, and anxiety of the average Monday to Friday has disappeared. Where has it all gone?
sorrow • 1 min read A Deepest Sentimentality A deepest sentimentality in life: we fail to see the influence we exert on others, and at the same time never have the chance to show ones who changed our lives, how far we've come.
contemplation • 1 min read The Jewel of Life To understand the winding roads and maze of mirrors that lead to the abstract and pithy one liner called "wisdom".
linux • 2 min read What is Docker Alpine Linux and build-base? Exploring Alpine Linux and build-base and the implications for Docker containers
ruby • 2 min read Add Sidekiq to a Ruby Project How to add Sidekiq to your plain Ruby or micro framework project like Sinatra.
dokku • 1 min read How to Destroy all Dokku Apps A script to delete all Dokku applications on a server without confirming each one.
ruby • 1 min read Enable Sinatra ActiveRecord UUIDs How to enable UUIDs for ActiveRecord in a Sinatra application.
time • 1 min read Scent of Time Past Recall how a scent alone can draw up from within the faintest images of emotion and electricity
music • 1 min read Relief of Music There are few place man can find sanctuary in life: philosophy, solitude, and music. Music — those varied waves of sound drumming upon the skin of the ear — within lies a
poetry • 1 min read A Sad Reflection Oh, If only the bird chirps and sparrow sighs, Matched the hue of lullabies. Perhaps then only then could I see, Past this sad reflection into infinity.
creative pursuits • 2 min read The First Step The first step for an author, an artist or machine worker is always a point of reflection. It represents the first obstacle to the outcome. The overcoming of the crisp
nietzsche • 2 min read The Greatest Weight Revisited And, when the time arrives for the last entry, by the cool window sill of the moonlight air – to whom your conscience, self and life you must bear: here again the demon arrives who spoke thus.
poetry • 1 min read The Echo Take one moment. Be amazed. Be awestruck. Two Legs. Two Eyes. Two Arms. Two Hands. Smell. Taste. Touch. Hearing. A mind full of brilliance. Where are you? What are you?
culture • 4 min read Mechanical Providence For in this heaven, what he seeks is Huxley’s soma, and achieves it in the escape of busyness in a society with no time: a circular covary belt, scrolling his life away.
civilization • 1 min read Chimpanzee Dreams Amazement flows through me to consider all the power and invention produced from this hunk of mass in its calcium phosphate container covered in flesh we call the brain.
economics • 1 min read Restrained Growth The economic marketplace (as a fitness landscape) is becoming increasingly punishing in outcomes as a result of the decrease in “time-to-live” of information asymmetries. A consequence of such extreme influences
writing • 1 min read The Betrayal of Old Words Man feels especially ready to write when his heart aches, but, is in want of words when circumstances are good and growing.