I’ve recently been doing some coding drills to create some opportunities for code refactors. I was reminded of Exercism.io and, having not checked them out in several years, was delighted to see how much they’ve improved since then. Feel free … Continued
I recently acquired an Epson EcoTank ET-3700 printer. I picked it because of the refillable tanks (FINALLY SOMEONE DID THIS) and because it has network capabilities and Linux drivers. So far, it’s been great. My kids and I printed a … Continued
I had this interesting use case come up. We have a multi-tenant app that has an Organization model. An Organization has many BarcodeItem. Originally, the query was direct: We only wanted an instance of Organization to return the barcode_items that … Continued
Long ago, in the before time, when I was using Windows I would occasionally tunnel an SSH connection through PuTTY to do VNC / remoting into my work computer. At an AWS workshop I recently learned how to do this … Continued
For reasons that are still unclear to me, a random update of Steam suddenly bricked my Steam installation. No Stardew Valley for me that evening! The error that I received when attempting to launch Steam, post-update, was a very cryptic: failed … Continued
Say you’re building a Rails application and want to use Facebook with Omniauth via Devise. You’ve already got that working and have your Facebook API key registered and all that. But maybe you want to see how it works and … Continued
So I was watching 30 Rock and Episode 9 had just finished…Episode 10 was about to begin but then I got that dreaded “Your OS is unsupported” error. I contacted support. No help. They said it’s probably from an update on … Continued
Fresh Ruby on Rails installations will default with support for SQLite3, which is a very fast database solution right out of the box. As you expand your app, though, you will inevitably encounter problems (most often, for me, it’s concurrency … Continued
This a modernized update to a previous post I wrote on here, about doing Ruby 1.9 & Rails 3. There are two ways you can go with Ruby, right now. Canonical is finally starting to get with the program with … Continued
Launchers are the Ubuntu-native way to launch an application by double-clicking on it. You can put them in your Unity dash, on your desktop, link to them, etc. The problem is, since the switch from Gnome to Unity, creating custom … Continued