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How to add timeouts to popular ruby code
The Local Variable Aversion Antipattern
Static v. dynamic languages
GraalVM
Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt.
Making Wrong Code Look Wrong – Joel on Software
Ruby’s Rack Push: Decoupling the real-time web application from the web | Musing, Music and things that go bump in the night
Deploying Often is a Very Good Idea // Speaker Deck
Principles for Software Development I Mostly Stole From Hacker News
C Is Not a Low-level Language - ACM Queue
Deprecating Paperclip
Write code that's easy to delete, and easy to... — programming is terrible
Put down that ENV; what you should know about ENV configuration - DNSimple Blog
Event Sourcing made Simple – Kickstarter Engineering
Why is Front-End Development So Unstable?
An analysis of memory bloat in Active Record 5.2
Sean Kelly on Twitter: "Recently a younger member of our team asked me: "What do you look for in a software engineer?". He told me my answers surprised him, and weren't like other answers he got, but I've ended up having this same conversation with many p
Rust review: The borrow checker - Julio Merino
You can think of the borrow checker as a validator for a locking system: immutable references are shared read locks and mutable references are exclusive write locks. Under this mental model, accessing data via two independent write locks is not a safe thing to do, and modifying data via a write lock while there are readers alive is not safe either
In Pursuit of Production Minimalism — Brandur Leach
Most of us can benefit from architecture that’s a little simpler, a little more conservative, and a little more directed. Only by concertedly building a minimal stack that’s stable and nearly perfectly operable can we maximize our ability to push forward with new products and ideas.
Scaling Engineering Teams via Writing Things Down and Sharing - aka RFCs
How Uber did RFCs
Truths programmers should know about case
The Gift of Giving Up - DEV Community 👩💻👨💻
Sometimes now isn't the right time for a rewrite
The GDS Way
Interesting handbook-style document from the gov.uk folks
Bundler: Announcing Bundler 2.0
twitter: Can't stop laughing
great parody around delivering software before it's ready
(49) Representations Count - YouTube
fantastic talk by Tom Stuart at Rubyconf AU 2019
(49) What Could Go Wrong? The Subtle Science Of Coding for Failure - YouTube
fantastic talk from rubyconf AU 2019
(49) Taming Monoliths Without Microservices - YouTube
great talk from rubyconf AU 2019
Senior Oops Engineer on Twitter: "Here is the only point estimation strategy that can possibly work: If it is obviously small then it is small. If it is obviously large then it is large. If there is ANY disagreement, mark it medium and move on."
In Support of the “Snacklog”