Category Archives: Programming

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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OKAY | Why the status quo is so hard to change in engineering teams

Posted on November 3, 2021 by David K.

Before we talk about how to prevent it, let’s see how learned helplessness can happen in a development team. There are 2 main patterns: Pattern #1: Process-related Learned Helplessness In this case, the team needs to follow processes that have … Continue reading →

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Ruby on rails : problem of verifiying the SSL certificate while installing bundle

Posted on October 15, 2021 by David K.

I’m new with ruby on rails and while creating my first project with this command rails new n_project, i got this error run bundle installFetching source index from https://rubygems.org/ Retrying fetcher due to error (2/4): Bundler::Fetcher::CertificateFailureError Could not verify the … Continue reading →

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Arch Linux

Posted on September 4, 2021 by David K.

I finally took a look at Arch Linux. I started the process of installing it with Parallels on my MBP. I got to the GRUB configuration step, and then thought, “What in the world am I doing!?” And then I … Continue reading →

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Kinda a big announcement – Joel on Software

Posted on June 4, 2021 by David K.

I took a few stupid years trying to be the CEO of a growing company during which I didn’t have time to code, and when I came back to web programming, after a break of about 10 years, I found … Continue reading →

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Nine things we learned from the Epic v. Apple trial – The Verge

Posted on May 28, 2021 by David K.

It’s particularly notable since some people are worried that macOS is inching toward the iOS model, making it a little more difficult to install unauthorized software with each new version. If you were already anxious about the Mac ecosystem closing … Continue reading →

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Time Tracking Web Apps

Posted on April 16, 2021 by David K.

I work for a tech outsourcing firm, but I’m fully-subcontracted to a Fortune 250. My company recently switched away from their home-brew time tracking tool (which wasn’t completely terrible) to Workday. The transition was rough. You had to click several … Continue reading →

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TECH | Stop using JPA/Hibernate · Blog de Laurent Stemmer

Posted on April 12, 2021 by David K.

Here an example of a JPA entity (using Lombok for “simplicity”): <sarcasm quotes mine> Source: TECH | Stop using JPA/Hibernate · Blog de Laurent Stemmer Through a very long series of unfortunate circumstances, I was backed into using Java/Spring/Hibernate/Angular in … Continue reading →

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