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Much of what is good for AI, is good for humans as well.
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Adam Sanderson plays around
Latest posts
Building Custom Form Elements
Let's see what we can learn by building a little web component
Asides in Astro Markdown
Thanks to remark, it's easy to customize how Markdown is processed
Loss Aversion Is All You Need
Some mistakes can be quite liberating
Brook, A Feed Reader
Building a feed reader into Firefox.
Reading Rails - HTTP DELETEs With a Link
Exploring how Rails, Rails-UJS, and Rack work together to enable HTTP DELETEs.
The Constructive No
No is a gift if presented thoughtfully.
Finding and Fixing Frustrating Tests
Track down some common ways tests fail due to unexpected interaction.
Testing a Little More
Start testing a little more with verification tests.
The Test That Cried Fail
Isolate indeterminate test behavior.
HasDefaultAssociations
Simplify your relations with HasDefaultAssociations.
Reading Ruby - Minitest's Plugin System
Let's read Minitest's source!
Reading Rails - Time Travel
How does Time Travel work in Rails? Let's find out!
Ruby Ducks - Serialization Duck Type
Apply duck typing to serialization.
Reading Rails - TimeWithZone
Let's read the Rails source to see how TimeWithZone works.
MetaRuby - Calling and Receiving Methods
Let's play with meta programming!
Defense Against the Dark Art of Estimation Bargaining
How to spot and stop 'Estimation Bargaining' — because nobody wins when deadlines are just wishful thinking!
MetaRuby - Monkeying With Methods
Introspect, call, bind, and wrap them with a bit of magic.
MetaRuby - Building Classes Dynamically
Make a factory to make your code for you.
MetaRuby - An Ounce of Meta
Write code to write code to write…
Reading Rails - How Does MessageEncryptor Work?
Read how MessageVerifier works, because learning is good for you.
Reading Rails - How Does MessageVerifier Work?
It's only magic if you don't read the code.
Reading Rails - How Do Batched Queries Work?
Read some Rails code and learn about Ruby in the process.
Reading Rails - The Adapter Pattern
Read the rails source, learn a design pattern.
Reading Rails - Errors and Validators
Read up on error handling so the errors don't handle you.
Reading Rails - How Validations Are Configured
Who validates the validators? We do, now let's start reading.
Reading Rails - Concern
Read some source code, discern the subtle value of Concern.
Reading Rails - More Migrations
Read the source and understand more about migrations, it's even more worth it.
Reading Rails - Migrations
Read the source and understand migrations, it's worth it.
Reading Rails - Attribute Methods
Magic attributes cease to be magical under a close reading of the source.
Reading Rails - Change Tracking
It's only magic if you don't read the source.
Reading Rails - Handling Exceptions
Learn how Rails uses metaprogramming so your app doesn't crash
Ruby Metric Adapter
A tiny adapter to help you write better code.
Hierarchies With Rails
Implement and manipulate materialized path hierarchies in ActiveRecord with Postgres.
Aggregating Hierarchies With Postgres
Aggregate hierarchical data in PostgreSQL using materialized paths.
Hierarchies With Postgres
Model hierarchical data in Postgres using materialized paths with arrays.
When Files Change – Simple Automation
When files change something should happen. Now it does.
Tagging With ActiveRecord and Postgres
Use Postgres arrays to implement tagging in a Rails application.
Postgres, The Best Tool You're Already Using
I got to present at RailsConf!
Ivy - Bound JavaScript
The best knockout knock off I've ever written.
The Strange Ruby Splat
Splat!
Getting to Know the Ruby Standard Library – Delegator
Explore Ruby’s Delegator and the Proxy pattern.
Getting to Know the Ruby Standard Library – WeakRef
Objects, loosely held.
Getting to Know the Ruby Standard Library – Timeout
Read some source code, until you timeout.
Getting to Know the Ruby Standard Library – Pathname
Learn how the Pathname library works and how to use it.
Getting to Know the Ruby Standard Library – Abbrev
Make use of the tools you already have!
Hash Tricks
Use and abuse Ruby's hashes for fun and concision.
Getting to Know the Ruby Standard Library – TSort
Learn how to perform a topological sort by reading the source. It's worth it.
Getting to Know the Ruby Standard Library – MiniTest::Mock
If you're going to use a mock, learn how it works.
Getting to Know the Ruby Standard Library – Shellwords
Read other people's regular expressions for great fun.