How to be an ally
So I titled this “How to be an ally,” but that’s a lie. You can’t be an ally. No one can. Ally-ness isn’t something that you can have intrinsically, any more than you can inherently be kindness, or...
View ArticleDetached—Terminals that don’t die when you close them!
Detached is a tool for Macs that makes it easier to manage command-line processes running in the background. Developers spend a lot of time running commands and servers in terminal windows, but closing...
View ArticleCloudCity 2013: Scaling Projects and Teams for Impact
Last year it was about scale—building large scale networks, working with big data, and big names, and reporting and creating tools with reliable performance with incredibly heavy traffic. We created...
View ArticleRubyFuza 2014 and building the web with empathy for non-Americans
Hey there everyone! Here's another entry in my ongoing conference travelogues. This time, I went to Cape Town in South Africa, to speak at the RubyFuza conference. The community in South Africa isn't...
View ArticleThe New Rubygems Index Format
The New Rubygems Index Format This post is a part news, part technical documentation, and part request for comment. I’m going to explain the technical nitty-gritty details of the planned next...
View ArticleTCP delays and retransmissions on Illumos
The other day, I helped debug an issue on some production Joyent Cloud servers (which use SmartOS, based on Illumos, the open-source successor to Solaris). The solution turned out to be so non-obvious,...
View ArticleZero to BLE on iOS – Part One
Everywhere you turn, there’s a new wearable mobile device. Out of the box, consumers expect these devices to gather information and share that information with their primary mobile devices–their...
View ArticleHow Bundler Works: A History of Ruby Dependency Management
This post was originally given as a presentation at RailsConf 2015. Using Ruby code written by other developers is easy! Just add it to your Gemfile, run bundle install, and start using it. But what’s...
View ArticleSlim + Fast: A Primer on Resource Weight – Images
The challenges to a front-end developer can be numerous. In addition to performing our day-to-day tasks, we are often expected to know a little (or a lot) about a wide array of subjects. Graphics,...
View ArticleZero to BLE on iOS – Part Two
Ready to contribute to the Internet of Things? This primer shows you how to develop an iOS app that uses the Bluetooth Low Energy standard to communicate with a BLE device. Introduction This is the...
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