Examined software development
Thinking in public about strange and interesting software development ideas and processes.
The JSON API specification the following design goals:
Understanding how each is achieved is essential in effectively using its features.
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A cheatsheet for the often confusing behaviour of Turbolinks.
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A breakdown of how to define and check abilities with CanCanCan, with an opinionated set of best practices based on experience.
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In most git clients, commit messages are truncated after a single line. This is not enough space to fully describe the changes a commit contains - and to attempt do so would be misguided. A description that imparts as much detail as reviewing the changes themselves offers little in the way of useful abstraction. But these limitations may be overcome.
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It’s frustrating to encounter a bug or failure when you know things should be working just fine. This is especially true when the last time something like this happened it was several hours before you found a solution. Even worse is when you are on the other side of those several hours and still have no idea how to solve your problem, despite having tried everything you can think of.
What you need is some debugging suggestions that will spark a new idea on how to go about finally finding that solution.
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Without getting into the details of JavaScript, HTML, CSS, or any particular framework, there are some general things that most good front-end developers do and understand.
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Every week I come into contact with over 20 programming languages, frameworks, APIs and other things I need to know. This is not remarkable for someone in the business of software development; there are many web technologies available - each regularly expanding its capabilities - and they may be connected in countless ways. However, there are common rules and patterns shared amongst them all.
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The Still Untitled: The Adam Savage podcast was one of the very first that I got into. Its conversational style and the fact that Adam regular answers listeners' questions makes for a welcoming and engaging listening experience.
Like many long-running, lightly produced podcasts, however, Still Untitled has touched on a great many subjects - some much more interesting than others. Here is a list of my favourite episodes, broken down into two categories.
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Facebook’s Origami is an interesting UI prototyping tool that integrates nicely with Sketch and offers the ability to interact with your prototypes in a simulator or right on your mobile or tablet device.
This is a summary of the information I picked up from watching the Origami video tutorials.
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I have been needing an easy way of recommending episodes of the fantastic Tim Ferriss Show podcast for a while now. What follows is a list of the episodes I found the most value in.
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