I’ve got a lot of interesting (for me) links piled up in the browser, so, I’ve decided to post them here.

Maybe you’ll find something interesting for you too. ;)

Disclaimer

I don’t always agree with the content I’m linking to. It can have numerous flaws: it can be opinionated, obvious to someone, etc. etc. But I find it interesting and, maybe, thought-provoking.

How Do Ruby/Rails Developers Keep Updated on Security Alerts?

A short article about bundler-audit.

ASCII Screensaver

A question on AskUbuntu about an ASCII screensaver. Bunch of nice variants in the answers, including cmatrix.

Redis data types

The official documentation explains a lot about data types available in Redis.

Ruby Object Mapper - first beta of 1.0.0

ROM v. 1.0.0 [beta] is now available, which is really nice because it means that ROM development team focuses more on the stabilization of the API for now. That’s an importatnt thing to do, I guess.

Understanding Transducers and The End Of Dynamic Languages

Here is a post by Elben Shira which dives into the functional programming. Examples are in Clojure, but if you know JavaScript, you can get to understand them better by looking at Clojure examples compared to JavaScript

There is another very interesting post with a thought-provoking predictions about the fate of the dynamic languages and how will the programming landscape turn to more strict languages in the future.

I was kind of disappointed to find the religious reference in the end of the post, but otherwise it’s really nice.

Effective Remote Working (+ Effective TDD With Ruby)

Here’s also two nice posts by Luca Guidi - Effective Remote Working and Effective TDD With Ruby.

Both are opinionated but for me they offer an interesting insight, especialy his advices about things related to remote working stuff.

Kafka for Ruby

Another interesting post about Kafka, Event Sourcing and Ruby.

A little rant about “JAVASCRIPT! ENABLE IT NOW! DO IT”

One day I’ve got a post in the aggregator about using proc in the rails asset_host to be able to generate a different url for each asset.

But when I open link to that article in my browser with JavaScript turned off (I use NoScript in whitelisting mode) I get the “loader” anmation.

What’s weird is that I can see the content for a second before the “loading” animation appears. Looking at the DOM shows that content is really loaded - you can simply remove the loading element and read all of it without any trouble.

So, the question is: why would they cover up their already loaded content which does not require JavaScript with that nasty loader?

Everyone has the JavaScript, right?

Please, don’t do that. Consider [Progressive Enhancement][progressive-enhancement] instead.

BTW, here is a link to the article if you want to see what I’m talking about.

That’s all

Wow, that pile is less that I’ve though it is. Ok, now I can begin to raise a new one. :)