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Most useful Vim features I use everyday

this post is a wip (work in progress)

Vibe Coding and the Future of Software Engineering

Vibe coding (or vibeware) is making rounds on X now. To the best of my knowledge Andrej Karpathy started the “meme” in this X entry. I find it well written and hilarious and it seems to have taken off.

“How I thought I wanted to become a digital nomad” - 10 years later

This post is a followup to a piece about digital nomading & remote work, I wrote almost 10 years ago.

What it really takes to learn how to code? And how do I start?

In my spare time I’ve been involved in mentoring a couple of people with little to no prior programming experience. Since I’ve had the initial conversiation on “how do I start learning how to program” or “how do I get a junior programming job or internship” more than once, I thought I’d write here about my take on it and what I generally tend to tell people when they ask about it.

uninitialized constant Paperclip::Storage::S3::AWS

When trying to set up the Paperclip gem with Amazon S3 storage I encountered the following error:

Rails 4.2.0.rc3 - Fixing libiconv missing dependency on OSX 10.10 (Yosemite)

OK, so today I tried to install the newest release candidate of Rails - the 4.2.0.rc3 and again, I got the missing libiconv dependency error while installing nokogiri, version 1.6.5.

Installing rails 4.2 prerelease on OSX 10.9.2 (Mavericks)

Now that rails 4.2 has been released you should definitely consider starting your new projects with edge rails 4.2.0-beta1 version.

Devise + Rails 4.2.0-beta1 - fixing undefined method ‘merge!’

If you have just upgraded your Devise based app to Rails 4.2.0-beta1 version, you probabily encountered the following error:

How I thought I wanted to become a digital nomad.

This post resonated with a lot of folks on Hacker News. Find the discussion here.

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