Category Archives: Programming

Mastodon

Posted on January 2, 2023 by David K.

So I’m just now realizing that Mastodon is a Rails 6.1 application. I just looked over the Gemfile, and it includes a lot of the usual gems, notably cocoon, right at the end. I have a love/hate relationship with this … Continue reading →

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Don’t Get Involved with Things you Can’t Fix, and You Can’t Fix Stupid

Posted on December 13, 2022 by David K.

Twenty-odd years ago, I was involved in a Product Data Management system implementation. This is just part of a much larger story, but the salient point from the epic saga is that I worked for a psychopath, and he tried … Continue reading →

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37signals Dev — Vanilla Rails is plenty

Posted on November 9, 2022 by David K.

In our example, there are no fat models in charge of doing too many things. Recording::Incineration or Recording::Copier are cohesive classes that do one thing. Recording::Copyable adds a high-level #copy_to method to Recording’s public API and keeps the related code … Continue reading →

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The Case for C# and .NET. It has been interesting as I’ve shifted… | by Charles Chen | ITNEXT

Posted on August 4, 2022 by David K.

It has been interesting as I’ve shifted out of .NET ecosystem which I’ve worked with on the server side (and some stints of desktop… Source: The Case for C# and .NET. It has been interesting as I’ve shifted… | by Charles … Continue reading →

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The Problematic Black Box Nature of Neural Networks and Deep Learning – Brightwork Research & Analysis

Posted on August 4, 2022 by David K.

Neural networks and deep learning are normally black box systems. This black box nature of neural networks leads to problems that tend to be underemphasized in the rush to promote these systems. Source: The Problematic Black Box Nature of Neural … Continue reading →

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LinkedIn? In My GitHub? It’s More Likely Than You Think

Posted on May 12, 2022 by David K.

I didn’t much care when Microsoft bought LinkedIn, because no one actually likes LinkedIn. What little usefulness it has exists only because there’s nothing else in the space. A Facebook for work. Really? That’s boring squared. Who cares? But when … Continue reading →

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Reselling gig work is TikTok’s newest side hustle

Posted on April 2, 2022 by David K.

Resellers buy gig work for as cheap as $5 to resell for profit Source: Reselling gig work is TikTok’s newest side hustle Yes, you can make money by looking for opportunities to match up supply and demand, and legitimately take … Continue reading →

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Unseen Effort – The Daily WTF

Posted on January 6, 2022 by David K.

The only downside to working for him was his disdain toward open source solutions. Anita couldn’t use any NuGet packages whatsoever; everything had to be built from scratch. She learned a ton while making her own JSON parsing library and … Continue reading →

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From Node to Ruby on Rails | D U N K

Posted on December 16, 2021 by David K.

Building the web app in Rails took me 2 days – the same thing in Node would have taken 2 weeks. I’ve also included things I wouldn’t have attempted to build on Node/Express until I proved the idea out (editing … Continue reading →

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SQL Is Obnoxious

Posted on November 18, 2021 by David K.

I find SQL obnoxious, due to its brevity. Getting complicated desired behavior from it sometimes requires clever understanding and combinations of very simple primitives. Because it’s taken me about 2 weeks (off and on) to work it out, I present, … Continue reading →

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