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An article that I was not particularly interested used the phrase “falling off a cliff”. Even though I wasn’t particularly interested in the content, I did open it because I wan... (71)
Elastic changed the licence for ElasticSearch disallowing providing it as a service. A lot of people were upset. My reflex was to join in the outrage but I wanted to better understand the motivation behind this decision. My reflex was to join in the outrage but I wanted to better understand the motivation behind this decision. I also wanted to consider the different arguments against it. I bookmarked the HackerNews threads and came back to them only recently. I tried to strip away the emotion and noise. Following is a summary of the different arguments that helped me form a more nuanced understanding of the situation. (0)
A couple of tries at generating more interesting image previews using imagemagick with the mini_magick gem. (0)
A side project in Electron and React for easier editing of front matter in many markdown files (0)
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It's a video, it might take a second to load. (25)
This improves readability especially for scopes that are very feature specific (342)
I wanted to generate a PDF of a page rendered in Jekyll.I found a gem called jekyll-pdf but it seems to have been abandoned.The alternative I came up with was to add a hook that... (241)
I wanted to be able to get a list of categories from a group of posts. That’s easy enough to do using the map liquid filter:{{posts | map: 'categories'}}The result is an array o... (214)
I wanted to generate an index of metadata from posts in Jekyll. The field that I wanted to index wasn’t compulsory, it was an additional one that I sometimes set, and sometimes ... (249)
A nifty feature in Chrome DevTools I recently discovered is the ability to take a screenshot of a HTML node.For me it’s quite useful for creating Canva-like graphics without hav... (88)
I make use of the rails_amp gem in the affiliate site. It generates AMP from normal views.One of it’s features is automatically converting the image_tag into the AMP compatible ... (254)
For the sake of being DRY we've made single-page applications and progressive web apps too DRY. In order to offer a better user experience we need to stop considering the client-side and server side store and routes as logically related. (927)
Lots of startups put logos of reputable publications that have written about them. Almost none actually link to the coverage.Similarly, lots of them put logos of companies that ... (54)
The Tinder interface is great for making a quick judgement for a low impact decision. A while back I built several prototypes that use that interface and realized that it works ... (262)
One of my pet peeves are useless file names. If software generates a file then it will eventually need to be found. File names that are just strings of numbers that make sense o... (135)
For reading online content I prefer to get use either Pocket or an RSS reader. I prefer email to be separated from “media”.Newsletters are getting more popular now. There are so... (127)