Importing data quickly in Ruby on Rails applications
Application frameworks often provide their own out of the box services for interacting with databases. This works great when processing data in a[..]
Interviewing at Mutually Human
You are standing somewhere on Earth. You walk one mile south, one mile west, and one mile north to end up where you[..]
Ember Component Tests: The Pragmatic Middle
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Writing an interactive command line tool using non-blocking IO opens doors that tools using blocking IO can only dream of. Your program no longer has to[..]
Today Girl Develop It celebrates its 5th anniversary! In just 5 short years they've gone from a small group of women to 54 chapters! Over 1,400 GDI[..]
Three Tries with NSTimer
I wanted to try the a new running program 30-20-10. My usual running app does a lot of things well but it's not great at[..]
Go is an amazing game because of how incredibly simple its rules are, and how complex and difficult its strategy and tactics are. Professional Go players[..]
Here's a funny relational database story from earlier this year.
Matt Mercieca vividly remembers the 6" monochrome green screen on his family's first Sanyo Luggable and the time he spent messing with the Basic and[..]
Math makes many people anxious, bored, and unhappy -- but even for the math-averse, it has a morbid fascination. For the math-philic, it's as ever-present[..]